Example sentences of "[to-vb] under the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is always something new to discover under the Italian sun , and the Citalia range of Two and Three Centre Holidays is no exception . |
| 2 | Finally he suggested that the committee would have to look both at the alternative provision for the 16–19 age-group that was provided by BTEC , CGLI , CVPE , and RSA ( all that which is to come under the general control of the new National Council for Vocational Qualifications ) and at the extent to which pupils who have followed GCSE courses may have become accustomed to a different kind of assessment procedure from that incorporated in A levels . |
| 3 | On July 23 the Foreign Ministry confirmed the terms it considered acceptable for an " allied multinational force " to be based in south-eastern Turkey : the force was to come under the joint command of Turkish and US commanders ; its ground element would be based at the US/NATO airfield at Incirlik and its air element at Silopi , with some facilities available at Batman in south-east Turkey ; any intervention against Iraq would need Turkish government approval ; and initial Turkish permission for the presence of the force would expire on Sept. 30 . |
| 4 | Bengal was the first region in the Indian sub-continent to come under the British rule , and the Bengali middle class the first among the Asian intelligentsias to respond to the western presence . |
| 5 | If money is short while the patient is ill , there is great pressure on the carer and the family , and often it may mean that the patient is unable to receive the specialist rehabilitation treatment which is increasingly difficult to obtain under the National Health Service . |
| 6 | She went to England in her teens ( 1917 ) to work under the dark genius of Sickert , and from him went on to France , where first , and briefly , she learnt from Andere Lhote , and then commenced a lifetime study with and under Albert Gleizes . |
| 7 | It will normally be for four weeks from the time when you start to work under the new contract . |
| 8 | Although some Euro-sceptics are bound to wilt under the fierce lobbying by ministers , whips and loyal back-benchers , the result was still too close to call last night . |
| 9 | Baldwin and Samuel said that they were willing to serve under the Prime Minister and render all help possible to carry on the Government as a National Emergency Government until an emergency bill or bills had been passed by Parliament , which would restore once more British credit and the confidence of foreigners . |
| 10 | Another method is to grip under the lower calf with the unaffected hand to lift the hemiplegic leg across . |
| 11 | But many shops continue trading on Sundays as they maintain they are entitled to open under the 1957 Treaty of Rome . |
| 12 | There was no heating in the room and an inadequacy of blankets , and I finally put on all my clothes again and tried my best to snuggle under the only blanket to snatch an hour of sleep . |
| 13 | The Carmel Woods case helps highlight the enormous difficulty of challenging the validity of IDO claims under the 1991 Act and also helps keep the spotlight on the legacy of old minerals permissions which planning authorities are powerless to tackle under the 1981 Act . |
| 14 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 15 | Thus , the period between 1880 and 1920 was marked by a sequence of strategies to combine under the loose banner of " efficiency " traditions of aristocratic cultural mystique with utilitarian programmes of industrial and social administration . |
| 16 | Mr Hattersley said during the debate that he and Neil Kinnock were more determined than ever to resist pressure for Labour to back PR , because voters would suspect that the party lacked confidence in its ability to win under the present system . |
| 17 | However , the real key to an encouraging performance at the lineout by the home team was surely that , given the choice , England would much have preferred to play under the old lineout laws , Wales under the new . |
| 18 | Lifting further , he bent his head to look under the broad limb , once so thrilling with power . |
| 19 | As he spoke a dark pool of blood began to gather under the luxuriant mane of Harriet 's auburn hair which had escaped from the loosened snood and spread slowly over the ground . |
| 20 | This was to gather under the very roof of Darlington Hall the most influential of the gentlemen whose support had been won with a view to conducting an ‘ unofficial ’ international conference — a conference that would discuss the means by which the harshest terms of the Versailles treaty could be revised . |
| 21 | The Institute had argued that there already was a clear professional duty to report under the existing Auditing Guideline , Banks in the UK , and that a statutory duty would not add value . |
| 22 | A signpost lettered APPLEWICK pointed down it , and the school-house where the Brownies were to spend their Pack holiday was at Applewick ; but the van ought to have gone all the way round by the main road , because it was , as Brenda knew , too big to go under the low bridge . |
| 23 | When this happens the thin walls of the tubes are able to buckle , the helical fibrillae can then straighten themselves out and so the cell is enabled to elongate under the tensile load by something like 20 percent . |
| 24 | Such a crack is far too small to see under the optical microscope and might be hard to see with an electron microscope . |
| 25 | yes , well , er I follow that , but I 'm sorry I put it rather badly Mr forgive me , part of your defence against the claim by er relates to erm these agreements , you must say that these agreements erm because they are of the standard form are anti competitive and therefore they or part of them are void , erm building on that presumably your defence says or employs er that because erm , you know there void , I du n no perhaps you can tell me this erm , all , all the er all parts of the void , all the power of the agent , the agreements with regard to premium trust funds and the like , er are also unenforceable as between er the erm name and his er members agent , erm and in consequence of that you say , as I understand it , er that that is , all that cause be lost which you can neither set up as a defence to claim under the central bi-law or at least as a set up or counterclaim , I just wanted to explore this aspect of it , erm , as to the consequences of your plea , does it mean that clause nine is put on one side wholly or to an extent in the latter case to what extent ? |
| 26 | What the local authority wished to do under the interim care order was assess the mother with these children and protect the children so far as the father was concerned . |
| 27 | ‘ What is key is to get evidence from the crew as soon as possible and that we were able to do under the marine accident investigation system . |
| 28 | Hanna showed that it was mathematically possible for such vortices to form under the right surface , wind and stability conditions and that such vortices would have the right sort of diameter , about 2 or 3 km ( I-2 miles ) , to explain the spacing of the dunes . |
| 29 | These students were allocated to the ‘ Oliver Wendell Holmes Society ’ and formed the first group of Harvard students to study under the new system . |
| 30 | In Australia , only 1,600 Britons have registered even though two million retain British citizenship and up to a third are thought to qualify under the 20-year rule . |