Example sentences of "and under the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities must naturally continue to meet their obligations under health and safety legislation and under the provisions of legislation designed to promote equal opportunities , but in other respects their freedom to impose contractual conditions is now restricted . |
| 2 | Just slip the Sherpa onto your mattress and under the sheet . |
| 3 | The cherry finish extends over the entire instrument , with the exception of the black-faced headstock , and under the lacquer on both the front and back of the body is some very pretty striping in the maple … |
| 4 | Hens and geese were picking around in two small haystacks and fleets of tiny yellow chickens were half hidden beneath some planking and under the foundations of some rickety sheds . |
| 5 | Cords over the shoulders and under the armpits cross on the back to hold the garment down at speed , and break up the surface in a more superficial pattern of folds . |
| 6 | Shortly afterwards , a number of bodies were found buried on the premises , in the garden , in an alcove behind the kitchen , and under the sitting-room floorboards . |
| 7 | In my haste , and under the influence of the contents of your letter , I evidently placed Herr Sussmeyer 's medical card in the wrong envelope and sent it to you . |
| 8 | After a couple of glasses of champagne and a hamburger , and under the influence of my friends ' euphoria , I cheered up . |
| 9 | It can develop in areas of moderate to high rainfall , low mean annual temperatures and high relative humidity and under the influence of ground-water in depressions or basins . |
| 10 | In time , and under the influence of Sir Donald Cameron , a man of obscure origin and exceptional ability who had known the delights neither of DO-hood nor of public school , Indirect Rule began to acquire a less exotic coloration and a less inward-looking character than it had had in its glorious beginnings in Northern Nigeria . |
| 11 | Voluntary contributions are always uncertain and under the influence of extraneous events … some of the original contributors have already sunk into the grave . ’ |
| 12 | Achieving a personal style became his ultimate photographic ambition , and under the influence of Josef Herman , a Polish photographer who spent many years in Wales documenting the lives of the coal miners , he paid his first visit to The National Gallery , where he gazed at the Old Masters and eventually formed what he called ‘ a concept of total image ’ . |
| 13 | In this case Miss T. had been during her childhood subjected to the religious beliefs of her mother and in her weakened medical condition , in pain , and under the influence of the drugs administered to assist her , the pressure from her mother was likely to have a considerably enhanced effect . |
| 14 | If X died leaving an estate of £1,150,000 and under the variation £150,000 went to the children and £1M to the widow and subsequently ( not as part of a preordained scheme ) the £1M was transferred to the children and the widow survived the normal seven years , no inheritance tax would be payable . |
| 15 | They grew white lilies around a well and under the chapel wall for our Lady who had sojourned once in Egypt . |
| 16 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |
| 17 | I was firmly in the present , watching the starlings cavort over and under the telegraph wires and the wind shimmer the young leaves into a muzzy Monet . |
| 18 | As he stood at the door trying to persuade her of the importance of other more pressing political issues , one of her cats shot out of the door , into the road and under the wheels of a passing lorry . |
| 19 | The Assembly had 386 seats and under the country 's complex electoral system ( approved in October 1989 — see p. 36961 ) , there were 176 single-member constituencies , where results were decided either by overall majority in the first round , or in a second round to which candidates would go forward if they finished in the top three or obtained over 15 per cent of the vote . |
| 20 | Thereafter , both under our domestic law and under the Convention , the courts have the power and the duty to assess the ‘ pressing social need ’ for the maintenance of confidentiality ‘ proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued ’ against the basic right to freedom of expression and all other relevant factors . |
| 21 | Up and down they rushed , behind the old oak walls , over the ceiling and under the floor . |
| 22 | As at the last general election , and under the UK system of government , Labour , with 39 per cent of the vote , has 68 per cent of the Scottish parliamentary seats , whereas the SNP , with 21.5 per cent of the vote , has 4 per cent of the seats . |
| 23 | Over the airwaves and under the sea , or however his quavering voice reaches me from LA , I hear S. O. Letterman . |
| 24 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 25 | Bodily hair will begin to grow , especially in the pubic area and under the arms . |
| 26 | It might seem a little unreasonable at first sight but believe me this is a possible approach , and under the circumstances it may very well be the best approach . |
| 27 | And through the window of the spaceship they saw the Moon before them , cold , white and beautiful ; and under the Moon , there was the Moon colony ! |
| 28 | And under the Master 's spell , Nietzsche too was able to ease himself out of his suspicions into something more like Wagner 's optimism . |
| 29 | The Masai moran customarily spent ten to fifteen years of warriorhood living communally , apart from their families and under the supervision of specially designated elders , in warrior villages , or manyattas , at the end of which time they married and settled down . |
| 30 | 7.7.9.1 to rebuild and reinstate at its own expense the Premises or the part destroyed or damaged to the reasonable satisfaction and under the supervision of the Surveyor the Tenant being allowed towards the expenses of so doing upon such rebuilding and reinstatement being completed the amount ( if any ) actually received in respect of such destruction or damage under any such insurance policy or |