Example sentences of "been under [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said to myself , I 've been under a boss |
| 2 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 3 | She 'd been under a spell — she must have been . |
| 4 | On a further appeal to the Privy Council the Board held that , if jurisdiction existed at all , it must have been under a section of the relevant Bahamas legislation ( section 23 of the Court of Appeal Act ( Statute Law of the Bahama Islands , 1965 rev. , c. 34 ) ) which provided : |
| 5 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 6 | The Guardian of Dec. 29 reported that Wang had " been under a cloud " ever since the police force had failed to control the nationwide pro-democracy demonstrations of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 7 | He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 've been under a lot of pressure recently . |
| 9 | But his wife , who 's the Mayor of Cirencester , said her husband had been under a lot of pressure recently . |
| 10 | Professor Brighouse has no idea why Mr Patten singled him out for attack , but says the Secretary of State has been under a lot of pressure |
| 11 | I 'm very hopeful because er , Vietnam since nineteen eighty six has been under a process of economic and political reform , and they have released er a large amount of prisoners over this time , and there are still a number of prisoners , such as poets er religious people that are still in prison , who are hoping that , with their renewed effort and attention from the media , this 'll er be changed . |
| 12 | The South African government has been under no obligation to submit reports to the ILO . |
| 13 | The Court judged that Carter had been under no duress when he authorized the amnesty and could have resorted to alternative methods to end the coup attempt . |
| 14 | This reticence extended even to the making of protests which was why , despite his feeble objections — he had been under no compulsion to go — he had been dragooned into the Navy in the first place . |
| 15 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 16 | The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true . |
| 17 | He 'd been under the ice , under the water , for ten minutes or more . |
| 18 | ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her . |
| 19 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 20 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 21 | The gunman is thought by detectives to have been under the influence of ‘ crack ’ cocaine . |
| 22 | Would it be fair to say that you accepted his decision when you thought it was the right decision , regardless of whether he may have been depressed or he may have been under the influence of drugs or some other pressure ? |
| 23 | ‘ I believe you may have been under the influence . ’ |
| 24 | However , the allegation that Hazelwood had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the disaster was contradicted by a number of witnesses at his trial , which opened in Anchorage , Alaska , on Jan. 29 , 1990 , after a six-month delay . |
| 25 | Some said Durham had had a nightmare or been under the influence of drink . |
| 26 | The defence counsel , William Totten , told the High Court in Edinburgh that Storrie had been under the influence of drink and drugs at the time of the offences . |
| 27 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 28 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 29 | Designated children had to fall within the age ranges 3–4 years or 16–18 years and to have been under the care or formal supervision of the local authority for at least six months . |
| 30 | One of the country 's tallest trees has been under the doctor . |