Example sentences of "has [adv] been subject " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |
| 2 | Mr Dewar called for the setting up of a Select Committee on Scottish Affairs — it was , he said ‘ a disgrace that the Scottish Office uniquely has not been subject to proper Parliamentary scrutiny ’ . |
| 3 | The market for top quality works by Matisse has not been subject to speculative buying , according to David Nash , head of Sotheby 's New York Impressionist Department . |
| 4 | The carpet has not been subject to spillages , animals , etc . |
| 5 | Thus we can normally expect a mature mind in a person at work and although developmental processes of growth and senescence are of some interest , studies of the person working usually assume that we are dealing with a mind which is equipped with the basic skills derived from play and education but one which has not been subject to any serious diminution of capacity . |
| 6 | The domestic banking system has ( since the early 1980s ) been completely free of formal restrictions on the supply of credit and has not been subject to reserve requirements . |
| 7 | The survival of the historical record has always been subject to natural and man-made forces . |
| 8 | Owner-occupancy has probably been subject to less direct legislative activity than have the two other main tenures . |
| 9 | The notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |
| 10 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |