Example sentences of "subject [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Morrissey and Marr realise the degree of luck involved is still subject to some speculation , for the combination was of four very diverse musical influences . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , all language tests are subject to some degree of unreliability . |
| 3 | In practice , no items are completely reliable and , as a consequence , any test will be subject to some degree of internal reliability error . |
| 4 | Each information source will be subject to some degree of filtering and perceptual distortion by members of the buying organisation . |
| 5 | In addition , it is likely that morphometric analysis in the transjugular biopsies is subject to some degree of sampling error , which may obscure this relationship . |
| 6 | Because these values are subject to some degree of change , you wo n't want to use constants . |
| 7 | Moneylenders were registered ; subject to some conditions over the way they did business ; they were able to advertise in only a very restricted way ( for example , they were not allowed to mention interest rates or repayment schedules ) ; and courts could re-open their loans , setting new terms , if they charged excessive interest and the original terms were ‘ harsh and unconscionable ’ . |
| 8 | The Bill , although subject to some criticism in Parliament , had a relatively quiet passage , and became law less than two years after the publication of the Wolfenden Report . |
| 9 | The proposal from the Commission for a coordinated Industrial Policy is therefore an attempt to move the EC towards a federal system , where all policies which affect the industrial base are subject to some kind of Community involvement . |
| 10 | There is much residual truth in these popular conceptions and we shall find them useful , subject to some refinement . |
| 11 | A product 's actual ingredients are subject to some variation depending on the local supplier , the region of the country and the season of the year . |
| 12 | The administrative structures set up by the Colebrooke-Cameron Reforms , though subject to some change in the nineteenth century , remained largely intact until the early twentieth century . |
| 13 | While any set of projections will be subject to some error for these sorts of reasons , the official household projections produced by the Department of Environment have provided a generally satisfactory framework for consideration of likely future trends in household composition . |
| 14 | Subject to some negotiation , the level of any such limits was set by reference to what the organization considered to be its " core " level of business , and again there were substantial variations to be observed . |
| 15 | Nottingham University lecturer Tony Thompson , a member of the inquiry team , said yesterday : ‘ Staff were subject to some manipulation by what can only be described as evil people . |
| 16 | There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC . |
| 17 | However , in sociology and in everyday use , the term deviance is generally applied to situations where the behaviour is disapproved of and subject to some form of punishment . |
| 18 | Whichever indicator one cares to use of the roles of the government in economic life — government expenditure as a percentage of GNP , total tax revenue relative to income , the range of activities in which the government is involved as producer , the extent to which economic life is subject to some form or other of regulation — all show a similar long-term growth in periods of peacetime throughout the present century . |
| 19 | Of concern , a third of the patients in whom we reached a diagnosis were subject to some form of child abuse : suffocation in 18 and fabrication of the history and physiological data in seven . |
| 20 | Ours is the only Government who have as a priority in our negotiations in Brussels the provision that all subsidies should be subject to some form of environmental assessment . |
| 21 | But they differ from private enterprise in that their defining characteristic , indeed the rationale for their existence , is that they are subject to some form of political control . |
| 22 | For example , an enterprise may be subject to some form of political control from ministries or agencies responsible for finance , employment , defence and regional policy in addition to its principal ‘ sponsor ’ or ‘ tutelary ’ ministry ( see , e.g. , Feigenbaum 1985 : 87–92 ) . |
| 23 | Future trends in marital status are subject to some uncertainty . |
| 24 | As late as 1926 this general pattern , though subject to some exceptions , is clearly observable , as will be seen in the case-studies of Tver guberniia and Kazakhstan . |
| 25 | The ‘ narrow approach ’ assumed that the rule applied generally to all proceedings in which public law acts or decisions where challenged , subject to some exceptions when private law rights were involved . |
| 26 | Subject to some exceptions … it matters not that the doer of the act of usurpation did not know , and could not by the exercise of any reasonable care have known of his neighbour 's interest in the goods . |
| 27 | If an exchange had a rule that required members to state that every contract was intended to go to physical delivery , notwithstanding the fact that since the rule was made the exchange had introduced a number of cash-settled contracts ; this would almost certainly be subject to some sort of variation . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the new wealth was subject to some control through institutions which were central to the image of Arab government ( household , lineage ) even if the wider groupings were likely eventually to break down under the pressures of differentiation . |
| 29 | That indeed , though subject to some caveats , is the prospect Cole seems to have seen . |
| 30 | In the face of royal financial demands he had to bear in mind the interests of the clergy as well as his duty to the king , and he was subject to some pressure from the Pope to urge the king to pay heed to papal diplomatic overtures aimed at bringing an end to the war . |