Example sentences of "have been under [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THOUSANDS of people will take to the streets of Glasgow tomorrow in support of the Albion axle factory , which has been under threat since the financial collapse of its Dutch parent company last month . |
| 2 | Mr Kenneth Clarke , the new Home Secretary , was faced with demands yesterday to release from prison a campaigner for Sikh independence who has been under threat of deportation to India . |
| 3 | We are struggling tonight to achieve the first tentative step in Britain 's planning , not for two or three years hence , but for the better part of a decade hence , and to achieve at King 's Cross the equivalent of what has been under construction for several years at Lille . |
| 4 | The Institute of Directors has pointed out that ‘ the 5th Company Law Directive has been under discussion since 1972 , with no agreement yet in sight ’ . |
| 5 | Since 1980 a proposal has been under discussion for a Directive which could require companies to introduce procedures for informing and consulting employees ; it became known as the ‘ Vredeling Directive ’ . |
| 6 | There is no legislative assembly , although the formation of an advisory assembly has been under consideration since 1980 . |
| 7 | The project for the dam , which would be largest in the world , has been under consideration for nearly 70 years . |
| 8 | The combined numbers of these three are perhaps 100 or 200 at the most , although an urgent conservation programme has been under way since 1980 . |
| 9 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 , he explained , under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 10 | Work on the successors to the T9000 has been under way since 1991 under Inmos 's Chameleon programme . |
| 11 | A comparable scheme has been under way since 1978 in West Germany , where products judged environment-XXXX friendly have been awarded " Blue Angel " status . |
| 12 | Consequently , an active programme of asset disposals has been under way over the last year in order to reduce the group 's high level of debt , which was the result of decisions to develop new oil and gas fields over the last few years , as well as the additional debt burden inherited following the acquisition of Ultramar . |
| 13 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 14 | Advertising manager Peter Matthews confirmed the review , which he says has been under way for some time . |
| 15 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 16 | It has been under test in Germany for a year where it has been used to control a Mercedes test vehicle on the autobahn . |
| 17 | The network has been under trial since July last year and although the switching equipment for the trial was supplied by Alcatel NV , the final order , worth £3m , went to GEC Plessey Telecommunications Ltd in conjunction with Siemens AG , against bids from AT&T Co , Alcatel and others . |
| 18 | Of course , it is not just audit regulation that has been under scrutiny in 1992 . |
| 19 | Gorazde has been under siege for more than four hundred and fifty days . |
| 20 | Since its ‘ theft ’ my living room has been under siege from Mark ‘ The Scoop ’ Crowe , the Argus sports hack . |
| 21 | A suitable data base format , together with the necessary management procedures , has been under development for a number of years . |
| 22 | Indonesia : Ruslan Widjayasatra , has been under sentence of death for the last 17 years . |
| 23 | She herself has been under attack in several ways already and needs our prayers daily . |
| 24 | Here , he defends the workings of Westminster 's controversial lobby system which has been under attack from several newspapers , including The Independent and The Guardian . |
| 25 | It 's that in the period April ninety one to September ninety one there has been under recovery of VAT of nearly half a million pounds , will wait until they recover it of which two er twenty six thousand is the true result of the South West Region of twenty six thousand pounds just over twenty one and a half thousand pounds related to job club fees , with all staff responsible for organising rosters even sure they are around the content of appendix one , section four , and that that correctly identified in cages , Margaret Cornwall . |
| 26 | A massive scheme for the Hong Shui River in Guanxi province has been under study since the 1950s . |
| 27 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 28 | Spain in particular , with its relatively large , shambling army ( a relic from the Franco era ) cut off behind the Pyrenees , has been under pressure from NATO to put more money into its air force and navy . |
| 29 | Breedt has been under pressure in his position but the Springbok selectors have learned from the many selection mistakes made by Pierre Berbizier with France this season . |
| 30 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |