Example sentences of "[being] subject to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wounded were being brought out from the orchard at the back of the farm which was being subjected to unusually heavy mortaring from the German positions just a short distance across the fields . |
| 2 | Actually , I did n't go to the hairdresser once during the five months I was in Private Lives and my hair became healthier from not being subjected to heated rollers or setting lotion . |
| 3 | He was also being subjected to cat-calls and ridicule . |
| 4 | Being subjected to it , Offred is in a very good position — literally — to see the hypocrisy of tyranny from underneath . |
| 5 | ‘ Back in Britain — still being subjected to continual bombing — and bombing Germany in return — there continued a massive build up of materials ; ideas ; new inventions , and American , British and Commonwealth forces in preparation of the expected invasion across the English Channel . |
| 6 | Inside the shrine wall-paintings showed the young king of Meroë with his feet resting on lines of bound prisoners ( one of them possibly a Roman legionary ) who were being subjected to the same indignity . |
| 7 | Each year , a number of employees suffer the galling experience of being subjected to disciplinary proceedings for misconduct which they deny having committed . |
| 8 | By the '70s , when Freddie Martin was playing for a whisky company 's office team in Perth , his successors between the sticks were being subjected to intense TV scrutiny . |
| 9 | Sick of being subjected to the Argentinian 's taunts Johnson simply replied ‘ Come near me sunshine and you 'll be swallowing your teeth . ’ |
| 10 | People react in different ways to odours , for example most people would probably describe rural odours or odour from a brewery , perfumery , or fish and chip shop as pleasant , but not all , some would find them unpleasant , pungent even , especially after being subjected to them for any length of time . |
| 11 | By Monday , Michael Heseltine was being subjected to indignities by a Greenham Common squad at Newbury and Mr George Bush 's pro-deterrent visit was being heralded . |
| 12 | We asked if she was getting tired of being subjected to all these questions , and she said that she had a few more minutes before she had to go and meet Jack and Rod for lunch . |
| 13 | He could n't bear the thought of a child like Anna ever being subjected to the indecencies and ugliness of a house such as Claybury 's , and he vowed that from now on he would work only to make life for lunatics stress-free and tolerable , even if it meant less money for himself . |
| 14 | If the single market is to be effective , companies must be able to provide goods or services across state lines without setting up agencies , branches or subsidiaries where this would be superfluous , and without being subjected to more burdensome rules in the host state than are absolutely necessary . |
| 15 | This resulted in each solution being subjected to a series of powerful sharp shocks — a process which he termed succussion . |
| 16 | From what I had heard in advance , I expected to see nothing much more than four or five students on the course drinking regulated amounts of alcohol and then being subjected to a variety of tests that would show how their motor skills deteriorated . |
| 17 | Again , mediation failure may occur when ideas are put into operation in the application phase without being subjected to adequate appraisal . |
| 18 | If ideas sound good and meet the needs of a current state of affairs , they will tend to be accepted in some simple assimilable form without being subjected to scrutiny . |
| 19 | I witnessed the entire episode during injury time and Bassett showed commendable restraint after being subjected to a torrent of personal abuse by Chelsea 's yob element . |
| 20 | Black sportsmen are drawn from the ranks of black working-class youth and these generally grow up under similar conditions , being subjected to the same kind of pressures or lack of them . |
| 21 | Most cells have a prisoner , magically kept alive ( or at least sentient ) , being subjected to one particular form of torment in perpetuity . |
| 22 | All the local authorities were being subjected to this dictation from departments in London , and a centralised bureaucracy stood for extravagance . ’ |
| 23 | Agriculture , the remaining industry to be considered , presents the paradox of being subjected to an enormous apparatus of state regulation while landowners have remained firmly among the leading cadres of the Tory Party . |
| 24 | The front-page story in the Star — JUDGE 'S MERCY : WIFE KILLED KINKY COPPER Sordid facts of sex life kept secret — told how the judge deliberately drew a veil over the last days of the victim , informing the court that the defendant went berserk after being subjected to ‘ abuse , violence and sexual perversions ’ . |
| 25 | Dedicated time for training , education , and study will be difficult to find in an environment where consultants feel they are being subjected to increasing pressure and juniors ' hours are being reduced but the clinical workload is increasing . |
| 26 | Since many countries had depleted reserves and weak trading positions , they adopted extensive exchange controls in an attempt to regenerate their economies without being subjected to the full rigours of the adjustable peg system . |
| 27 | " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . " |
| 28 | Households in the Coventry area report that they are being subjected to intimidation reminiscent of this time . |
| 29 | As well as being subjected to extreme temperature changes outside , having to constantly leave a warm room to either make a cup of tea or go to the toilet , for example , meant that they were doubly exposed to cold stress as well as to daily stress . |
| 30 | Another factor is the evaluation apprehension , namely , the anxiety experienced by the subject that his ability and character are being subjected to examination . |