Example sentences of "been [vb pp] under the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 2 | With further losses expected this year , strategy has been overhauled under the guidance of chairman Brian Garraway , who hands over to financial services managing director , Martin Broughton , in July . |
| 3 | But by the end of 1884 , 14 sites in England had been placed under the act , including the Arbor Low and Rollright stone circles and Silbury Hill , plus two in Scotland , and more followed in later years . |
| 4 | The principal target of the order , however , appeared to be the territorial defence forces in Slovenia and Croatia , which had been placed under the control of the republican leaderships by legislation passed in Slovenia in October 1990 [ see p. 37790 ] and in Croatia on Nov. 8 , and a newly formed Croatian paramilitary police reserve known as the specijalci . |
| 5 | It has been suggested that the ambush on William Black at his cottage was the work of an MRF unit which had been placed under the charge of the SAS specialist from Hereford . |
| 6 | Although mental illness should not be regarded as any different from physical illness , it is not always so viewed by the uninformed and the fact that in later life it might become known that a minor had been treated under the Acts might redound to his or her disadvantage . |
| 7 | It was the highest level of direct contact between the two Korean states since their formation in 1948 , and was the first official border crossing since September 1985 , when family reunions had been arranged under the auspices of the Red Cross [ see pp. 34165-66 ] . |
| 8 | The relevant date for calculating your pay is normally the date on which your job would have terminated had proper notice been given under the Consolidation Act , whether or not such notice was in fact given . |
| 9 | To lend yet more weight to the advertising ban campaign , a coalition of 29 medical organisations , representing virtually all the UK 's 85,000 doctors , has been formed under the title ‘ Doctors for Tobacco Law ’ . |
| 10 | Earlier , as the Chamber of Representatives on Oct. 17 held its first session for the parliamentary year 1991-92 , it was announced that a new opposition grouping , the National Movement ( MN ) , had been formed under the leadership of the veteran Berber politician Mahjoubi Aherdane , who in 1957 had founded his Popular Movement party ( MP ) . |
| 11 | A US SunNet Manager Users Group has been formed under the aegis of DeskTalk Systems and will stage its first meeting at InterOp in San Francisco on October 29 at 6:30 at the Sheraton Palace . |
| 12 | In the stampede to get out of the building she had been caught under the flow of people , pushed to the ground and trapped , with a broken ankle , under heaps of clothes and stands . |
| 13 | Some $48.9 billion of Mexican debt had been rescheduled under the Baker plan in 1983–84 and 1986–87 . |
| 14 | Note that attempts will be made wherever possible to conciliate between solicitor and client where the client is dissatisfied with the solicitor 's charges , and the dispute has not been resolved under the firm 's internal PR15 procedure . |
| 15 | The Adult Education Regulations of 1932 addressed a major problem which had not been resolved under the Board 's 1924 Regulations . |
| 16 | Born in 1818 , he had been educated under the supervision of the liberally inclined Romantic poet Vasilii Zhukovskii . |
| 17 | What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO . |
| 18 | Accordingly , in the present case it would have been , I think , impossible for the solicitors , however careful they had been , to make an assessment which accurately reflected the remuneration which would have been paid to them and to counsel after the matter had been considered under the arrangements provided by the legal aid board . |
| 19 | By virtue of s.199 , as amended by the CA 1989 inspectors are empowered to enter premises and search for evidence where there are reasonable grounds that , inter alia , an offence has been committed under the CSA 1985 . |
| 20 | It should be noted that these projections do not reflect any benefits that may accrue to the Group following a transfer of ownership and have been prepared under the assumption that the Group 's current operating conditions will apply over the whole period under review ’ . |
| 21 | These accounts have been prepared under the Accounting Standards Board Financial Reporting Standard No. 3 , ‘ Reporting Financial Performance ’ . |
| 22 | You could run down a list of things that have been done under the title of reform , and they all look good , but the net result is that the Congress has really lost its capability to respond . ’ |
| 23 | The most important work in the formal sector this year has been done under the auspices of SFDES . |
| 24 | Little was done , or could have been done under the imperatives of war needs as interpreted at the time , to close down the schools on the Black List , long overdue for closure and replacement , or to rebuild inner-city schools . |
| 25 | The news that Sipotai had tried to recover by force the st'lyan which had been commandeered under the Kha-Khan 's warrant would be bad enough especially since the attempt had failed . |
| 26 | A path has now been built under the arch of the bridge at the east end of Glasgow Green . |
| 27 | In his last visit to North Korea , Ceauşescu had been able to see the thirty-storey concrete pyramid in the centre of Pyongyang which had been built under the inspiration of the Dear Leader , Kim Jong Il ( albeit from an original idea by George Orwell ) . |
| 28 | When Insurers settle a partial loss they acquire no proprietary rights in the subject matter insured — but they become subrogated to all the rights and remedies of the Policyholder in so far as the Policyholder has been indemnified under the Policy . |
| 29 | Part of the area has been designated as a site of special scientific interest under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act and special protection has been sought under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance . |
| 30 | Remarkably , the first sighting of Dr Johnson 's ‘ Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel ’ was in The New Republic in March 1989 ; by which time such a bedrock of well-meaning patriotism had been wedged under the case that it proved difficult , if not impossible , to shift . |