Example sentences of "was under the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This area was under the sea . |
| 2 | Before this , in a period called the Carboniferous , the whole region was under the sea . |
| 3 | So she was under the sea ; this was green water around her , not air . |
| 4 | And in a second he was under the Man 's arm and out through the cage door , free and gliding over towards the fence by the benches . |
| 5 | The school-hole was under the floor of the old shed with ‘ Canteen ’ on the door . |
| 6 | It was right , it was under the window |
| 7 | In 1857 , Reading police force was under the auspices of Chief Constable Henry Peck , a man who played it strictly by the rule book . |
| 8 | Much of the post-war rise in social research into ageing and employment was under the auspices of the Nuffield Foundation . |
| 9 | It was under the auspices of arch that the conference to discuss how best to repair Croatia 's war damage was held in Zagreb last December . |
| 10 | Graham served in the RAF during the Second World War and it was under the war-time ‘ guesting ’ arrangement that he first turned out for Palace . |
| 11 | This started at 2.30 pm , lasted for an hour and was under the direction of Mr. Ernest Russ , our Headmaster . |
| 12 | In addition he developed an association with Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington [ q.v. ] : it was under the direction of Burlington and Herbert that he remodelled Castle Hill , Devonshire ( 1729–40 ) , and Kirby Hall , Yorkshire ( begun 1747 ) was their joint design . |
| 13 | It was under the protection of the Estates and was also known as the Estates Theatre . |
| 14 | In the burgh of Inverkeithing the effect would have been disastrous had not Captain Robert Cunningham 's money been lavishly dispensed among the councillors and magistrates , for as was to be expected , it had not been in Cunningham 's power to convince anyone in the town that he was under the protection of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 15 | The patriarchate of Aquileia was under the protection of Charlemagne , and the influence of the Frankish kings was felt both in Dalmatia and in the Pannonian region , where Croat tribes were established to the east of the Slovenes , in the middle Sava valley . |
| 16 | Sadly , as soon as Col Sgt Oram left the area the local soldiers shot and killed the Bosnian deputy prime minister , who was under the protection of other UN troops . |
| 17 | On an evening when he had broken the silence with one of his quietist cracks she would feel a sense of remorse and insufficiency descending on her , and hours later find herself in the larder , eating the remains of whatever was under the meat sieve and weeping that she should do something so self-defeating and stupid . |
| 18 | I was under the influence of a power a million times stronger than any drug . |
| 19 | The Vicar of Kidderminster was under the influence of Sir Ralph Clare and refused to allow Richard Baxter to return under any circumstances , even though he offered to preach for nothing . |
| 20 | Gillerthwaite - - ‘ was under the influence of a warm and sportive sunshine , which rendering lazy , while it illuminated the lowing herds of cattle , presented , to the mind 's eye , after their viewing such a scene the results of a Cuyp , a Bergham , or a Potter , or of many an English painter of animals . ’ |
| 21 | Thickened his voice in the wrong places to try and convince us that he was under the influence . |
| 22 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 23 | ‘ Dr. F. told me ‘ that [ Miss T. ] was under the influence of the narcotic drug pethidine . |
| 24 | ( 1 ) Although she was under the influence of the painkilling pethidine , she had not lost her mental faculties and she was sufficiently alert , though tired , to be able to understand the questions asked of her and to answer them comprehensively and comprehendingly . |
| 25 | Now , I can hold my liquor as well as the next man , so it is ludicrous to suggest that when I reversed the club van into the tea hut I was under the influence . |
| 26 | Stratimirović tried to prevent Vuk from publishing his grammar by invoking an order of Leopold II giving a monopoly to the publishing of books in Serbian to the Serbian press in Buda , which , unlike that in Vienna , was under the influence of the Church . |
| 27 | Well I think that er er as I said previously , that erm the engineering industry erm for many years , er was under the influence of national wage negotiations . |
| 28 | Police believed Elstob was under the influence of drink or drugs . |
| 29 | He remembered little about the fires because he was under the influence of drink and did not realise what he was doing . |
| 30 | The High Court in Edinburgh was told that McDonald was under the influence of drugs when he entered the bank and vaulted a counter . |