Example sentences of "[modal v] be subject to [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( This issue could be developed into a more general consideration of whether police officers should be subject to more stringent codes or rules of behaviour than other people in society , given their position of authority ) . |
| 2 | Given that urban districts may be subject to geographically uneven patterns of investment and disinvestment , the question arises as to whether urban redevelopment funds are targeted to those neighbourhoods most lacking in capital or those where private revitalisation is already well established . |
| 3 | Labour costs increase from year to year , materials costs and energy costs may be subject to less regular , but sharper , increases ; interest rates may be extremely variable , and hence the cost of financing products fluctuates . |
| 4 | The latter would be subject to less extensive review than would tribunals and other administrative institutions . |
| 5 | Tentative proposals in ( 2 ) above were overtaken in May 1991 when the above Directive came into force whereby under Article 5 the River Almond was identified as a ‘ sensitive area ’ and ‘ waste water shall be subject to more stringent treatment than secondary treatment by 31 December 1998 for all discharges from agglomerations of more than 10000 p.e . ’ |