Example sentences of "[verb] [been] subject to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last five years British agricultural research has been subject to major reorganisation . |
| 2 | Traditionally , the analysis of how companies compete within given markets has been subject to economic analysis . |
| 3 | This legislation ensured that the whole of Britain has been subject to compulsory land planning based on the application of two simple practices : the preparation ( including revision and updating ) of plans for the future allocation of land uses , and the control of development to accord with the provisions of those plans . |
| 4 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 5 | Political culture is a vague abstract concept that has been subject to various definitions . |
| 6 | This can be appreciated by considering how , in different countries and at different times , the provision of health care , housing , education and other ‘ essential ’ services such as electricity and transport , has been subject to varying degrees of public ownership and control . |
| 7 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 8 | Even so , the larger features in Figure 9.3 are visible from the Earth and many have been observed to hardly change over the 100 or so years for which Jupiter has been subject to extensive and continuous observation with powerful telescopes . |
| 9 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 10 | So our support has been subject to redefined guidelines , as you 'd expect from any efficient organisation . |
| 11 | Each religion and religious tradition has been subject to geographical , historical and sociological factors which have influenced its vocabulary and the thought-forms enshrined within that vocabulary , and which have become unknowingly exclusive of the insights of others . |
| 12 | Special education has been subject to considerable controversy for many years . |
| 13 | Evolution of public transport and traffic planning policies in West German cities since 1960 has been subject to continuing scrutiny . |
| 14 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 15 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 16 | The area has been subject to Cimmerian rift-faulting but has suffered additional severe inversion and wrench-related movements associated with the edge of the Broad Fourteens Basin . |
| 17 | The product has been subject to rigorous quality control . ’ |
| 18 | The EURODASS consortium led by Marconi Defence Systems Limited offered a solution , and this has been subject to rigorous scrutiny to confirm that it meets the necessary technical criteria . |
| 19 | The existence of a relationship between increased remuneration and profits on the one hand or growth on the other is capable of less impressionistic assessment , and indeed has been subject to detailed research . |
| 20 | And yet in this area , too , Karajan has been subject to rebarbative questioning and criticism , not least on the grounds that an interest in technology is somehow incompatible with a man 's credibility as a performing musician . |
| 21 | Public transport has been subject to numerous policy changes , especially since the 1960s ( Banister 1983 ) . |
| 22 | This so-called ‘ hidden curriculum ’ is claimed by many feminists to be at least as important in child development as the formal curriculum ( see , for example , Byrne , 1978 ) , and has been subject to intensive study ( e.g. Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) . |
| 23 | The BVI economy is based primarily on tourism and has been subject to significant expansion . |
| 24 | If the plaintiff had not paid he would not only have been subject to legal proceedings for recovery of the tax but would have been liable to forfeiture of his business until it had been paid . |
| 25 | This idea of metempsychosis , or transmigration of souls , has only occasionally appeared in the West , in particular in the school of Pythagoras , which may have been subject to Eastern influences , since he was roughly contemporaneous with Buddha — and also with Zarathustra . |
| 26 | The two ADF receivers were working in the ADF mode at the time of the crash , though the No 1 unit may have been subject to intermittent electrical interruptions due to poorly soldered joints . |
| 27 | The situation was brought about by a combination of factors , with two in particular causing us the greatest damage : the postponement of the Registers of Land that might have been subject to contaminative use , and the fall in construction activity . |
| 28 | Both techniques proved to have been subject to persistent human errors which accounted for at least part of the apparent change in the size of the Sun . |
| 29 | The application had been subject to long and disapproving scrutiny at Coutts . |
| 30 | It was certainly a Northumbrian claim , however , that the Scots as well as the Picts had been subject to Northumbrian domination . |