Example sentences of "[verb] be [adj] to [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Students who are provisionally enrolled are subject to the Charter , Statutes , Ordinances and Regulations of the University as are from time to time in force . |
| 2 | It is in the field of its own procedures that the Court of Appeal , in the past , has been receptive to the claim of substantive justice . |
| 3 | In reply , Sir Derek said that though he could not speak for other directors , ‘ my resignation has been available to the board from the day all this started . |
| 4 | So the psychology of the course was created and this has been integral to the development of the tournament . |
| 5 | The issue of commodity bundling has been central to a number of celebrated competition policy cases , including those involving IBM in both the United States and Europe . |
| 6 | The Marquess of Lothian initiated the Country House Scheme , which has been central to the preservation of great houses and their contents . |
| 7 | This effect , sometimes referred to as ‘ encoding specificity ’ ( e.g. Tulving and Thomson 1973 ; Tulving 1983 ) has been subject to a range of interpretations but what concerns us here is the general possibility that contextual factors might determine test performance by modulating the ease with which stored information is retrieved . |
| 8 | For a long time reading has been subject to a variety of fads and fashions . |
| 9 | For example , assume that a child is a rehabilitated person within the meaning of the Act : in other words , he has been subject to a supervision requirement and that requirement has been terminated or a year has elapsed since the date of the hearing that imposed the supervision requirement , whichever is the longer , and he has committed no further offences during the rehabilitation period ; or he has appeared before a children 's hearing which has decided not to impose a supervision requirement on him and six months has elapsed during which time he has committed no further offences . |
| 10 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 11 | companies whose equity share capital has been subject to a marketing arrangement as described in Section 163(2) ( b ) of the Companies Act 1985 at any time during the 10 years prior to the relevant date ( e.g. companies whose shares have been traded on the USM or used to be traded on the 3rd Market ) ; |
| 12 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 13 | Apparently it has been similar to the crew of a huge tanker somewhere on the high seas sailing hither and tither no doubt , for four long years after setting out , and returning just in time for the recent elections . |
| 14 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 15 | This means that most of the recent increase in the proportion of non-manual employment in the employed population has been due to the expansion of service industries and not due to a rise in the number of government employees . |
| 16 | The weakening of trade union power in the 1980s has been due to the interaction of government legislation , the rise in unemployment , and technological change . |
| 17 | The demand for control of our landscapes , or environment , in order to preserve or create pleasant amenities has been due to the work of many people organised in groups . |
| 18 | This has been due to the lack of understanding of the origins of this pottery . |
| 19 | The sums involved are enormous : 70 per cent of the total growth in the nation 's wealth since 1979 has been due to the rise in value of the housing stock . |
| 20 | B. Most of the spoliation of our landscapes , coastlines and rivers has been due to the activities of business people during the last 100 years or so . |
| 21 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 22 | The really phenomenal success of these materials during the last thirty years or so has been due to the combination of cheap and rapid mass-production with adequate toughness — added of course to chemical inertness , lightweight and bright and cheerful , not to say garish , colours . |
| 23 | No doubt the neglect has been due to the absence of knowledge in dealing with these matters , and the ignorance of the right methods and necessary articles for use … |
| 24 | A recent Bank of England report for analysts concluded : ‘ The sharper fall in unemployment than rise in employment has been due to the introduction of the Restart interviews and stricter availability-for-work tests . |
| 25 | If the campaign has been logical to the strategists , the public perception is that it has been awful . |
| 26 | Much of the research into the social psychology of racism has been narrow to the extent to which it has concentrated upon images of outgroups , rather than on the image of ‘ prejudice ’ or ‘ racism ’ itself . |
| 27 | Sveticic , a near neighbour of fellow Slovenian soloist Tomo Cesen ( ‘ the world 's greatest mountaineer ’ according to Reinhold Messner ) , had earlier soloed the very hard Rolling Stone route on the same face , and has been close to the tops of K2 and Everest . |
| 28 | Pornographic imagery has been crucial to the success of safer-sex campaigns . |
| 29 | However , the organization of rural workers has been crucial to the formation of the Salvadorean opposition movement and political repression has been most savage in the countryside . |
| 30 | The idea of older workers being surplus to labour requirements has been crucial to the development of pensions both in Britain ( the 1925 pensions legislation ) and the United States ( the Social Security Act of 1935 ) . |