Example sentences of "be [adv] subjected to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In ordinary parlance one might say that anyone who has been forcibly subjected to this offence has been raped ; the psychological effects are likely to be deep , and even if there is no risk of pregnancy ( as there is not from some rapes , since ejaculation is not part of the definition ) , there may be the risk of disease . |
| 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 | Drills are generally subjected to harder work , with variables such as the nature and density of the material ; from soft deal to hard oak , even metal and concrete . |
| 5 | Reports are always subjected to much criticism and it is only by writing in unexceptionable language for a specific readership that clear meanings are preserved . |
| 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 | Because they lead somewhat unusual lives , college teachers are often subjected to this type of elaborate caricature . |
| 8 | Employees are routinely subjected to psychological screening and polygraph tests to evaluate their honesty . |
| 9 | While no working poor families are now subjected to 100 per cent marginal tax rates , large numbers of them face the combined effect of tax and loss of means-tested benefits , which withdraws over three-quarters of any increased income they earn . |
| 10 | Such corporations tend to usurp the functions of local elected authorities which are simultaneously subjected to greater central control . |
| 11 | Once again , it is the existence of a state of coherence between field frequencies that constitutes the cause of cancer : nothing can be effectively subjected to any influence whatsoever if the subject is not of the same nature as the influence , and the ancient statement ‘ all is energy ’ is the most meaningful contribution that emphasizes the primary , fundamental nature of all phenomena in the created world and the basis of interaction between all things . |
| 12 | Certain residents are continuously subjected to unnecessary loutish behaviour and areas of the village frequently vandalised . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | These individuals are then subjected to differential survival through the operation of a range of mortality factors that eliminate them either before or after reproduction . |
| 15 | Not only then do about a quarter of respondents cite pavement parking as one of the problems for pedestrians in that they object to the loss of pavement space to the vehicle and the obstruction caused by it , but they are then subjected to considerable accident rates as a result of the broken slabs and uneven surfaces that result ( Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 16 | Since 1980 , computer tomography of the thorax and upper abdomen and ultrasouns examination of the neck have been carried out in order to identify abnormal lymph nodes , which are then subjected to cytological examination . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The film avoided showing the strategy and the overall complexity and scope of the operation , possibly because the orders given by some senior officers were later subjected to considerable criticism . |
| 19 | Shops like greengrocers and chippies , with pitiful cash takings , were routinely subjected to armed robberies with shotguns , balaclavas — the whole bit . |
| 20 | After the return to civilian rule , the newly formed state radio corporations , which had been set up to be independent of Federal Government authority , were immediately subjected to local political control . |
| 21 | These results were then subjected to both time series and cross-section tests . |
| 22 | Crucially , evacuees in the first wave were never subjected to systematic medical inspection — with the result that allegations thrived , both then and subsequently . |
| 23 | Imamu is also subjected to physical torture when Perk goes missing and the police think that by torturing him , they will get some information out of him . |
| 24 | Farmers in the DRAs have a special responsibility in this regard , not only because the land is often subjected to greater hydrological and climatic stress but also because farming is by far the major economic and social factor in such areas . |
| 25 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 26 | On the contrary , it appeared from several provisions relating to the Common Fisheries Policy that that policy , far from being exempt from the basic principles of Community law ( such as the prohibition of discrimination , the right of establishment and the principle of the free movement of goods ) , was expressly subjected to each of them . |
| 27 | The working class family was increasingly subjected to closer supervision , first by visitors attached to voluntary organisations like the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , and later by state officials , such as school attendance officers and health visitors , who attempted to exact new standards of behaviour from the working class wife in respect to domestic duties and childrearing practices . |
| 28 | The resulting A2U model was then subjected to rigid body minimization by use of X-PLOR , limited rebuilding by FRODO , simulated annealing refinement with X-PLOR and conventional restrained least-squares refinement by PROLSQ , to an R factor of 23.4% at 2.8Å , with an r.m.s. bond-length deviation of 0.023Å . |