Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] under [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Their disciplinary record has slowly improved under Bobby Gould and they will point out , correctly , that West Ham played as great a part in the mayhem .
2 The previously taken-for-granted principle of social responsibility for the survival — and indeed well-being of that part of society not directly engaged by capital as producers has suddenly come under attack .
3 Cricket , and the afternoon session in the fourth Test Match between England and the West Indies has just got under way in Barbados .
4 The panel did n't review supermodel Cindy Crawford 's new video which has already come under fire in some fitness circles but Mr Dickinson adds : ‘ It clearly contains some of the exercises the panel had elsewhere criticised as outdated ’ .
5 The Secretary of State for Scotland has also powers under section 6A of the building ( Scotland ) Act 1970 to ‘ call in ’ applications for warrant .
6 The use of antibiotics in factory farming , both to combat infection and to promote growth , has also come under criticism in the salmonella scandal .
7 The traditional role of the local government officer as the neutral bureaucrat has also come under stress from the growing militancy of local authority trade unions .
8 However the modern corporation has also come under attack on grounds of Christian justice .
9 SCIENTIFIC investigation of other societies and other ages has increasingly come under attack from relativists claiming that other cultures , and even other scientific paradigms , can be understood only from within , and only in their own terms .
10 Bloom 's Taxonomy , for example , with its distinction between objectives in the cognitive and affective domains , has increasingly come under fire ( see , for instance , the discussion in J. H. Gribble 1970 ) .
11 In particular , the role of the thalamus has increasingly come under attention ( see Brown , 1975 ; Ojemann and Mateer , 1979a , and papers in Brain and Language , Vol. 2 .
12 This is subject to the minor exceptions in subsections ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) , and to adaptations when a private company has validly elected under section 252 to dispense with laying of accounts before general meetings or when shareholders of listed companies have elected under section 251 to receive summary financial statements instead .
13 With Senator McCarthy 's campaign against treason in the State Department having just got under way this may hardly have been the best time for dispassionate analysis although , if it is not too academic a point , one can not help comparing these propositions with an earlier assessment ( 13 October 1948 ) .
14 Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved .
15 All but three had already served under Mr Heath .
16 The day 's patrol had already left under Ord 's leadership .
17 The franc had already come under pressure immediately prior to the referendum , falling on Sept. 18 to just above its F3.43 ERM floor against the deutschmark .
18 Either they had been obliged to renew such contracts , perhaps several times , and had thus come under pressure to give the workers concerned permanent status , or they had found themselves carrying workers whose fixed-term contracts had not yet expired , despite the fact that they were no longer needed .
19 The dried egg and fried bread were less attractive than ever and the grey day had hardly got under way before I was approaching the forbidding facade of Regent Lodge .
20 To the east the Mediterranean Fleet had also come under air attack during 8th. from Rhodes-based Axis aircraft , and heavy air fighting had ensued with six of the attackers being claimed shot down by the defending Fulmars from the carrier ‘ Formidable ’ .
21 Lately Mr Serrano had also come under fire on human rights .
22 Charles did not make extensive changes in the Lombard government , and retained many of the governors and administrators who had originally served under Desiderius .
23 Bashir dismissed the Industry Minister , Mohamed Omar Abdullah , and the Minister of Transport and Communications , Ali Ahmad Ibrahim , whose departments had reportedly come under criticism for poor performance .
24 The arrangement whereby Island pressed and distributed Virgin records had sometimes come under strain , with Virgin accusing Island of putting their own product first .
25 Vologsky 's personal fortress had never come under attack .
26 The situation which women face is , they say , essentially that which women have always faced under patriarchy , so that women have no difficulty in finding a solidarity with other women across the ages .
27 ‘ I have cantered among the hyenas of the Serengeti as they brought down wildebeest ; I have danced the Wellington Boot Dance with the Zulu in the township hostels ; I have tiptoed through the Bibliothèque Nationale , listening to the gummy gumming of mundane scholars ; I have shelled prawns with slant-eyed androgynes in the polyglot souks of the uttermost East ; I have reached the nadir of a nonsensical number of psycho-sexual trances , both in the Amazonian hinterland and the plastic cultures of the Pacific rim ; I have subsumed myself to the circuitry of artificial cerebella in the silicone wadis ; I have crawled down the barrels of guns on all five continents , only to spring forth again — triumphant ; I have tittered in the stalls and tottered by the walls festooned with epicene opera-lovers ; I have sallied forth into the salons of the old world and the new ; I have hefted steins in the beerhalls and pinched flutes in the Shires ; I have raced laggardly protons around the cyclotron , revelling in the sempiternal sciamachy ; and — let us not forget — I have also hidden under couches whilst the moneyed pulers petted their kittenish neuroses , imagining themselves trusted , secluded .
28 At the smaller end of the scale , the surreal Monkton House in West Sussex and the delightful sixteen-sided folly at A la Ronde outside Exmouth in Devon have also come under threat .
29 Sustainability 's recommendations for action have also come under scrutiny , since they do not cover some of the deficiencies identified in the report , including the low-level of recycled materials use , and the company 's preference for road , rather than rail , as means of product transport .
30 The position and problems of the Free Representation Unit have recently come under consideration by the committees of the Bar Council .
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