Example sentences of "which [vb past] under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All three National governments , which operated under the premiership of J. Ramsay MacDonald ( 1931–5 ) , Stanley Baldwin ( 1935–37 ) and Neville Chamberlain ( 1937–40 ) , displayed increasing respect for the trade unions in the 1930s . |
| 2 | Despite grand plans for the ‘ informationisation of society ’ , the partnership of government and industry which operated under the government of Valery Giscard d'Estaing left the French information-technology industry in a mess — at least compared with American or Japanese firms . |
| 3 | Of the machines clustering about the bench , I gained no clear idea , except that , by the head , a tank of a red liquid stood above it , dripping its contents down a tube which led under the sheet . |
| 4 | The case was seen as demonstrating the legal difficulties involved in using the judicial system of unified Germany to deal with cases which occurred under the East German legal system . |
| 5 | He sat at his desk , huddled in his great cloak , oblivious to the cold draughts which came under the door or through the cracks in the wooden shutters on the window . |
| 6 | I asked if his telephone would work at the next big stop which came under the heading of serious to me . |
| 7 | ‘ La guerre des flics is alive and well , ’ Roquelaure confirmed , referring to the notorious rivalry between the police and the security organisations , including the gendarmerie , which came under the Ministry of Defence . |
| 8 | President Arias announced the deal on Oct. 27 as delegates arrived in Costa Rica for a Pan-American summit meeting [ see p. 36972 ] , and he acknowledged the support of the USA in reaching the agreement , which came under the auspices of the Brady plan [ see pp. 36541-42 ] . |
| 9 | The strong winds took their toll throughout the day with most competitors finding themselves going overboard at some point during the faces , which came under the control of Bolton Sailing Club officials . |
| 10 | In the first place , it must be realised that the ‘ goods and chattels ’ that comprised personal estate did not include the value of buildings and land , which came under the heading of real estate . |
| 11 | It was part of the contents of a unique toy museum in Buckinghamshire most of which came under the hammer today . |
| 12 | Now they were in a lesser hallway , an irregular square which opened out on the right into a short passage which turned under the angle of the stairs . |
| 13 | Peter Bassett , from Chelsea , said that the present economic difficulties bore no relation to that which pertained under the last Labour government when the country had to be bailed out by the International Monetary Fund . |
| 14 | This cat-and-mouse game between engineers and the elements was to become a major theme in the next great age of wetland reclamation , which began under the Tudors and reached its climax in the middle of the seventeenth century . |
| 15 | Inner London bureaux which began under the auspices of the Family Welfare Association were not accustomed to volunteers at all as they were staffed by paid workers and many even have a negative attitude towards them . |
| 16 | In this regard the difficulties of interpretation which existed under the old bankruptcy rules have been cured by the unambiguous terms of rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 : |
| 17 | I should like to make it clear that the provisions of the Government Bill will provide householders with the same level of protection as that which existed under the private Bill , and they are set out fully in schedule 7 . |
| 18 | Developed this year , it features the Parisian group of composers which evolved under the influence of Eric Satie … known as Les Six , promoted and fostered by Jean Cocteau comprising Honegger , Milhaud , Germaine Tailleferre , Poulenc as well as Auric and Durey . |
| 19 | Towards the central area of trees and bushes starlings streamed , alighting on branches which swayed under the weight . |
| 20 | During the eighteenth century there were signs of the first rumblings of the tectonic upheaval which shattered the old order in Europe , and from its ruins created a group of nation states out of the submerged nations which lay under the surface of the great multinational empires . |
| 21 | Their main grievances against the education system , which fell under the dual control of the church and state , were that it victimised teachers who showed dissent by questioning the working conditions or salary scale . |
| 22 | Even if the observation was not consciously made , Leonard recognised the great similarities which were taking place between music and poetry ( and in art and sculpture , too ) , which went under the name of neo-classicism in the former and modernism in the latter . |
| 23 | The auction opened with Daniel Chodowiecki 's watercolour ‘ Frederick II on horseback ’ of 1777 , which went under the hammer at DM78,000 ( £31,200 ; $49,920 ) , more than double its estimate ; it reached its first highpoint with Max Liebermann 's ‘ Garden on the Wannsee ’ of 1916 , for which a north German collector paid DM480,000 ( £192,000 ; $307,200 ) . |
| 24 | The organisers ' policy of making the estimates attractive to potential buyers was again vindicated with Willi Baumeister 's painting ‘ Four Points ’ which realised DM200,000 ( £68,000 ; $124,100 ) , a 1964 untitled watercolour by Ernst Wilhelm Nay which went under the hammer at DM62,000 ( £21.400 ; $38,500 ) and an unusually bright picture of the Tiergarten by Liebermann , secured by a private bidder for the princely sum of DM430,000 ( £148,300 ; $266,900 : estimate DM300,000 ) . |
| 25 | But for parallel development in relation to the parliamentary franchise , the position thus brought about might have resembled too closely that which prevailed under the Stuarts , save only that the pretended despot would have been a Prime Minister , able to influence the composition of Parliament to an excessive degree , rather than a monarch claiming Divine Right . |
| 26 | Corbett slipped and tripped as he was pushed down a flight of steep narrow steps which ran under the keep . |
| 27 | Mildred rushed to the washroom and seized the bucket which stood under the window there to catch drips from the leak in the ceiling . |
| 28 | Forces of the rebel Sudanese People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) which remained under the command of Col. John Garang continued to hold the area around the towns of Torit and Kapoeta , in the south of Equatoria state . |