Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] subjected to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , for hundreds of years before the formation of the first Yugoslav state in 1918 , the South Slav peoples were subjected to different forms of political and cultural pressure . |
| 2 | Total ribonucleic acid preparations from the two colonic tumour cell lines were subjected to northern blot analysis to investigate whether they expressed mRNA for ICAM-1 . |
| 3 | His letter says that : ‘ So long as neither the lives of American citizens nor our troops are subjected to immediate danger and the international economic embargo continues to exert substantial pressure against Iraq … offensive military action by the United States unwisely risks massive loss of life . ’ |
| 4 | Yet both professional footballers and cricketers were subjected to unreasonable restrictions and working practices . |
| 5 | So in Benjamin v Storr , for example , the plaintiff , who kept a coffee house and whose customers were subjected to noxious smells from horses standing outside his premises , succeeded in an action for public nuisance . |
| 6 | At a more technical level , the motion of bodies was subjected to mathematical analysis , concepts of inertia were formulated , and , as a fitting climax , Newton formulated his inverse-square law r- or gravity , which explained the planetary orbits . |
| 7 | All of these foundationalisms are subjected to thoroughgoing challenges , as perhaps given voice to with greatest immediacy and impact in Nietzsche 's radical epistemological , ethical , and aesthetic scepticism , in turn-of-the-century cultural modernism . |
| 8 | In the region permeated by the magnetic field the charges are subjected to radial forces and as a consequence eddy currents will flow . |
| 9 | In AMS the charged particles are subjected to large voltage differences so that they travel at very high speeds . |
| 10 | Lancaster 's widow was pressured into surrendering parts of the Lacy inheritance , and when Pembroke died in 1324 his coheiresses were subjected to unscrupulous treatment to persuade them to surrender portions of their inheritance to the Despensers . |
| 11 | Many travellers are subjected to acute discrimination and harassment . |
| 12 | Completed questionnaires of 786 middle-class men were subjected to comprehensive statistical analysis . |
| 13 | In Home Office Research and Planning Unit Paper 65 , Offending while on Bail : a survey of recent studies , by Patricia M. Morgan ( Home Office , 1992 ) , the figures which gave rise to the recent claims are subjected to careful analysis . |
| 14 | Both in coffee- and cotton-harvesting , women are subjected to enormous health hazards . |
| 15 | Family planning as promoted in El Salvador has been characterized by very aggressive marketing and it is more than apparent that both the medical profession and women are subjected to unethical pressures . |
| 16 | Drugs are subjected to rigorous testing before they can be marketed , and the same should be a statutory requirement for implants . |
| 17 | The court heard the boys were subjected to humiliating rituals . |
| 18 | Barthes 's caveats against recuperation have been most convincingly demonstrated by Stephen Heath ( 1972 ) who is critical of the tendency towards naturalization : the radical experience of the nouveau roman is undermined when the novels are subjected to reductive readings of the psychologizing variety enacted by Morrissette , however much these may be encouraged by the novelists themselves . |
| 19 | The samples were subjected to sophisticated analytical techniques at the Research and Engineering Centre , Sunbury — probably the first time that rock from the region has been analysed in the West , said Dave . |
| 20 | The samples were subjected to microscopic , chemical and extract analysis before and after heating . |
| 21 | Some detainees were subjected to severe beatings while in police custody , for example at the Brigade spéciale de recherche ( BSR ) , Special Investigation Brigade , in Bujumbura . |
| 22 | It has been postulated that decompression could irreversibly change the electrical conductivity of rocks by rupturing these films , and that laboratory measurements would not be able to duplicate the high conductivity in rocks even if the rocks were subjected to high pressures . |
| 23 | Molecular weight standards are shown to the left ( B ) Duplicate crude nuclear extracts from UF9 cells were subjected to Far Western blotting using 32 P-labelled ATF1 ( lanes 1 and 2 ) or 32 P-labelled CREB ( lanes 3 and 4 ) as a probe . |