Example sentences of "was [verb] under the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | George I could speak no English and knew nothing of British monarchy and duties , so an inner council of ministers was formed under the leading politicians and , by 1720 , the ‘ cabinet government ’ was well established . |
| 3 | The administration was placed under the general supervision of a central National Insurance Commission , established in 1912 under the control of Robert Morant . |
| 4 | Although later boundary changes occasioned by the fortunes of war effectively restricted its jurisdiction , the patriarchate remained until 1766 , when , together with the archbishopric of Ohrid , it was placed under the Greek Patriarch of Constantinople . |
| 5 | Chief executive John Foster claimed the £231 spent on the leaflets was justified under the 1972 Local Governemnt Act , which allows councils to issue information about their activities . |
| 6 | This litter , born on 5 December 1965 , was to be the first born in Victoria and was registered under the Heatherglen prefix . |
| 7 | Everton 's third came in bizarre fashion after 38 minutes when Crossley was punished under the new laws for handling Carl Tiler 's back pass . |
| 8 | In The Dear Green Place , Archie Hind exposed the sap and pulp that was hidden under the hard shell of that surprisingly literary construct , ‘ Glasgow ’ , and then ‘ fell silent ’ ( by which the literary world apologised for Hind 's decision to communicate more directly with the city 's damaged youth ) . |
| 9 | The sentence was stifled under the thick cushion of Emilia 's sigh . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The structures covered approximately 60% of the warehouse floor area and further lighting was added under the mezzanine floor . |
| 12 | Fortunately , no one was trapped under the falling roof but experienced miners knew that something was far from right . |
| 13 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 14 | ‘ It is now clear that the powers the Lord Chancellor was granted under the Legal Aid Act are wider than anyone had previously thought and that he can restrict access to justice simply by cutting or restricting lawyers ’ fees . |
| 15 | Sovereignty over the strategically important peninsula of Gibraltar was granted under the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht to the United Kingdom , which accords it the status of a Crown Colony ; UK sovereignty is disputed by Spain . |
| 16 | So what was said under the previous heading needs to be counter-balanced . |
| 17 | The new scheme , upheld by the Divisional Court in the later case , was made under the same statute and did not appreciably hold a different balance between ratepayers and transport users . |
| 18 | As it was on such a steep gradient , a large basement was built under the rear end to give a level floor for the tracks . |
| 19 | Coach 1622 was built under the last lot on the diagram . |
| 20 | Although she could not afford to stay there , she certainly intended to give the impression that she was lodging under the same roof as the leaders of the Party . |
| 21 | In her mind she was acting under the highest orders — to give and serve and take up her cross daily . |
| 22 | It is interesting to note that during renovations to an old house in the village dated 1638 , a priest hole was uncovered under the fourth step of a spiral staircase . |
| 23 | The Death grant was abolished under the Social Security Act 1986 . |
| 24 | Since it is a jurisdiction which is central to the administration of justice in the courts of this country , it was accordingly not ‘ a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , ’ which was preserved under the new arrangements in 1873 by section 12 of the Act of 1873 without forming part of the new jurisdiction of the High Court . |
| 25 | He was buried under the still-skeletal St Paul 's of Sir Christopher Wren [ q.v. ] , in the chapel of St Faith 's , where his monument can still be seen . |
| 26 | The book first appeared in 1953 and was produced under the difficult conditions of a country still emerging from the ruins of World War II . |
| 27 | Michael John Smith , 43 , from Kingston , Surrey , was accused under the Official Secrets Act . |
| 28 | Nothing further is known of him beyond a minor land acquisition in 1538 until , in 1540 , he suddenly emerged as a gentleman of Henry VIII 's privy chamber , a post he was to retain under the young Edward . |
| 29 | I would argue that the introduction of literate/pre-literate as the criterion for making such a division has given the tradition a new lease of life just as it was wilting under the powerful challenge of recent work in social anthropology , linguistics and philosophy . |
| 30 | The chill of the early morning was dispersing under the grey cloud base that spread in from the west . |