Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] under " in BNC.

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1 The percentage of biliary cholesterol carried by the vesicular and non-vesicular fractions was calculated by measuring the area under their respective peaks , as a proportion of the total area under the cholesterol radioactivity curve eluted from the chromatographic column .
2 It is estimated that the total area under crops — 61,000 hectares — is 8pc smaller than last year , with 2pc more farmland now under grass .
3 The total amount under challenge is , I understand , a sum in the region of £1.8m .
4 For example , differences in consumption patterns coupled with differences in excises are likely to lead to changes in ranking , as is the differential treatment under the income tax of different sources .
5 And now she took a better look at him , Folly could n't help noticing the strong , muscular lines of the broad back under that white shirt .
6 The story of the sunken village under Semer Water has been repeated so many times that it may be pointless me telling the story once again , yet there may be some of you who wo n't have heard it , so if you 're sitting comfortably , I 'll begin .
7 The Major strode back towards the window and his boots sounded drum rattle over the hollow spacing under the bare boards of his office .
8 The centre was formed in 1984 by the Jesuit order under the leadership of its current Director , Fr Joe Naidu , who has been involved in WACC activities in India for several years .
9 Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote .
10 Why has Britain dragged its feet on the European directive under the Social Charter to prevent women being dismissed from jobs on the grounds of pregnancy ?
11 The European Community under Britain 's presidency said the Serb-run camps were ‘ repulsive and despicable . ’
12 The work has been funded by the European Commission under the ESPRIT initiative .
13 To join a research group funded by the European Commission under its Science and Technology for Environmental Protections Programme .
14 The work has been funded by the European Commission under the ESPRIT initiative .
15 It was at this time that the European Commission under its President , Walter Hallstein , produced a plan to finance the CAP .
16 Will he , in any negotiations with our European partners , give the highest priority to getting the European Commission under some sort of genuine parliamentary control ?
17 A European Pharmacovigilance Research Group ( EPRG ) has been set up ; it was established with support from the European Commission under the Biomed Programme to develop and validate methods of pharmacovigilance that are applicable to the divergent patterns of health care delivery across the European Community and that are compatible with national legal , cultural , and ethical customs .
18 Notice 174 's headlamp mask and the air-raid shelter under the Bispham cliffs .
19 The largest section under David Stirling , who had with him the repaired ‘ Blitz Buggy ’ , headed for the escarpment above Fuka .
20 positive reforms to secure ‘ democratization ’ included a reorganization of the political system under a new constitution , a transformation of the system and content of education , anti-monopoly and deconcentration measures to extend ownership and control of big business and finance , land reform to widen land ownership and reduce tenancy .
21 The political class under Franco — ministers , political appointees in the civil service and members of the Cortes ( Spanish Parliament ) — was drawn to a marked extent from the ranks of civil servants ( Beltran 1977 : ch. 2 ) .
22 As an Englishman I express my subordination to the political authority under which I live by paying a certain fraction of my money income to the appropriate official .
23 A real attempt had now to be made to change the political climate under which the Roman way of life could be accepted and economic development could prosper .
24 A week later Adam got a letter saying he was the sole beneficiary under the will of his late great-uncle .
25 The necessary amendments to company legislation are considered below , but it should be noted at this stage that there is no amendment to s 283 so that , although the sole member can be the sole director under s 282 , he or she can not also act as the company secretary .
26 If standing was not granted , Article 103 would only have practical effect in the unlikely event of the Secretariat refusing to register the conflicting agreement under Article 102 of the Charter .
27 Thus the clientelistic interplay of political interests within the Spanish state under Franco converted state enterprises into part of the political patronage system .
28 The communist-controlled north under Kim 11-sung proclaimed itself the Democratic People 's Republic , the capitalist south under Syngman Rhee became the Republic of Korea .
29 I hope she does n't throw the empty glass out into the void to follow its contents ; pity the hapless passer-by under that little bolt from the blue !
30 This bank ran into financial difficulties almost immediately , and in 1892 was bailed out from certain bankruptcy by credits and low-interest loans from the conciliatory government under Caprivi .
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