Example sentences of "[adv] subjected to [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Samples of natural grass were collected from the author 's garden , merely subjected to various conditions and placed on blackened baking trays .
2 In our everyday lives , we are constantly subjected to such images .
3 Laing believes that countries like Japan and West Germany which take a more long-term attitude to performance are less subjected to such pressures .
4 Firstly , homosexual conduct , although no longer subjected to criminal penalties , except when it occurred in clearly defined public circumstances , would continue to be viewed as morally reprehensible ; and secondly , the move did not imply a relaxation of control over homosexual behaviour or was not intended by its main supporters to imply such a relaxation of control .
5 Because of the need to be able to assimilate and present objectively masses of map data and also because of scepticism sometimes expressed about their very existence , rejuvenation features , mainly successions of erosion surfaces , were quite early subjected to quantitative methods of investigation and depiction , which still illustrate well some of the problems and pitfalls involved .
6 Then again , Daniel Barenboim 's life-story reads a bit like one of Mann 's celebrated Bildungsromans — for it is the tale of a prodigy of immense talent and ambition who has been repeatedly subjected to Job-like tests of his emotional mettle .
7 Reports of rape of tribal women by security force members continue to be received by AI , and non-combatant tribal members were also subjected to other forms of torture during 1989 and 1990 .
8 Shops like greengrocers and chippies , with pitiful cash takings , were routinely subjected to armed robberies with shotguns , balaclavas — the whole bit .
9 In this chapter Denis Mongon argues that the predominant approach to disruptive incidents in school is through the displacement model whereby pupils are increasingly subjected to negative sanctions until they are finally excluded .
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