Example sentences of "[noun] been subject to " in BNC.

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1 While the Bakufu administration had for several decades been subject to criticisms from within its own ranks , a more serious threat to its supremacy emerged from within domains traditionally hostile to it .
2 ‘ Never has an art form been subject to such control , ’ argued Pare Lorentz in 1930 as he pointed out how the whole industry was ‘ ruled by fear ’ and was ‘ the victim of moral racketeering ’ .
3 But if this were the case why has the local-central state system been subject to continuous conflict and occasional crisis ?
4 On that basis the Irish Parliament , whose legislative powers had since the fifteenth century been subject to the sanction of the executive in London , had that limitation removed from it and became a ‘ free Parliament ’ , but a Parliament on which no executive , not even the local Irish executive , was dependent .
5 Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer .
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