Example sentences of "they [vb past] 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 ‘ To bring our people back to the innocence they enjoyed under the old king . ’
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system .
7 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 .
8 Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground .
9 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 .
10 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 .
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