Example sentences of "subject to [noun pl] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 The laws relating to taxation may be subject to changes which can not be foreseen .
2 The laws relating to taxation may be subject to changes which can not be foreseen .
3 It illuminates the medieval understanding of the interior life subject to impulses whose gratification may satisfy the immediate demands of the self for ease , anger , pleasure , esteem , but which also impede the freedom of the spirit to seek that ultimate good which in reality is the only means of satisfying man 's inherent need for fulfilment .
4 Now within that situation Tolstoy paints a picture in which the , even the greatest generals are in fact subject to forces which they can not control .
5 As we have seen , the power vested in the state is justified by a system of democratic government ; and the assurance that the state 's power is subject to constraints which prevent it from being used arbitrarily is found in the adherence to the ideal of the Rule of Law .
6 This is the second round of Clower 's ‘ dual decision hypothesis ’ : agents must now optimize subject to constraints which are themselves partly determined by realized outcomes .
7 Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new .
8 The European Court further ruled in this case that Arts 48 and 59 of the EC Treaty do not prevent a member state from requiring that the exercise of the profession of auditor in that state by a person qualified to carry on that profession in another member state be subject to conditions which are objectively necessary to guarantee observation of professional rules concerning the permanence of the infrastructure in place for the completion of the work , the effective presence in the member state and assurance of the observation of professional ethics , unless respect for such rules and conditions is already guaranteed by a reviseur d'entreprises , whether a natural person or a firm , established and recognised in the state , and in whose service is placed , for the duration of the work , the person who intends to exercise the profession of auditor .
9 In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 .
10 I have argued that company law in its attempt to establish the legitimacy of corporate managerial power has been concerned also to show that the power conferred on managers is subject to controls which prevent it from being used arbitrarily .
11 By summonses dated 16 October , against each plaintiff , the defendants sought a declaration that in the circumstances the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants in respect of the subject matter of the claim or the relief or remedy sought and an order that the action be dismissed on the grounds that the defendants were domiciled in Scotland for the purposes of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and that Schedule 4 to the Act provided that the defendants should , subject to exceptions which were not applicable , be sued in the courts of Scotland .
12 We are talking about living communities : dynamic , changing ; subject to pressures which have nothing to do with agriculture ; but imposing on other aspects of life constraints which arise from involvement in agriculture .
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