Example sentences of "they [verb] under the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals .
2 They ducked under the sagging wire and made their way round the back of the lake .
3 Discuss what changes would need to be made if Susan and Bob decided to form a company to take over the business to protect both partners ' interests as they stand under the current partnership agreement .
4 ‘ To bring our people back to the innocence they enjoyed under the old king . ’
5 What had changed , he said , was that the association had finally accepted his assurance that patients would get all the drugs they needed under the new system .
6 There were less than a dozen of them , as they went under the collegiate arch of the street entrance and down the glass-roofed passageway leading to the church itself .
7 Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system .
8 What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years .
9 It 's probably where the expression ‘ work like a dog ’ was born ; no wonder they shuffle under the shearing sheds and grab as much sleep as they can when they 're not clambering over sheep 's backs or kicking up the fine , red dust .
10 Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground .
11 Now many more MPs expressed alarm about the actual impact of the tax on their constituents and , consequently , on their chances of re-election as they discovered to their dismay that most households would be paying far more in poll tax that they had under the old rating system .
12 Dual-subject degrees exist in both the universities and polytechnics , but their place in each is subtly different ; in the former they are seen largely in relation to the single honours degree , which constitutes a kind of academic gold standard , whereas in the latter they come under the general rubric of ‘ combined studies ’ .
13 Their aerial photographs he subjected to destructive scrutiny , the light crop lines they detected under the unbroken fields he dated several centuries later than the sacking of Aurae Phiala , the dark crop marks emerging so strongly in contrast he refused to consider as early Roman military lines , but set well back into pre-Roman settlement .
14 When the Opposition call for an independent consumer ombudsman , I suggest that that is exactly what they have under the present arrangements .
15 They work under the grim threat that armed and dangerous rebels could pick them off at any time .
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