Example sentences of "[was/were] subject [prep] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Low Countries , or Flanders as they were termed in the Middle Ages , were subject to varied artistic influences from different sources . |
| 2 | The traditional Conservative cry against the nationalised industries thus had some plausibility for anyone concerned with a correct allocation of investment resources in the economy : though it should be remembered that the electricity boards were ( unlike private industry ) not in general free to invest as much as they wished at low rates of return , but were subject to annual quantitative limits agreed with the Minister . |
| 3 | Far from possessing similar freedoms , sanctions and incentives as their private sector colleagues , managers were subject to strong bureaucratic controls and examples of perverse incentives penalising good managerial or clinical performance were legion . |
| 4 | In Parma , as in all other towns and cities in Italy , there were a number of case di tolleranza , brothels recognized by the authorities , in which the girls were subject to regular medical examinations , and three of the boys in our class plucked up the courage to visit one of these on the way home from school one evening . |
| 5 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
| 6 | While they were subject to important central pressures , the Area Chairmen and their Boards had considerable authority and status at the local level , which they sought to develop by rooting their Boards firmly in the local community . |
| 7 | In fact both networks were subject to heavy political intervention . |
| 8 | During 1990 the country was subject to violent political instability following the controversial re-election of the government and the imposition of austerity measures on Aug. 8 [ see pp. 37649 ; 37708 ; 37848 ] . |
| 9 | Grain converging on the Middle Volga from other parts of Russia and from abroad was subject to similar near-chaotic conditions . |
| 10 | The actual form of organisation adopted was by no means standardised but in each case it was subject to direct political control [ Chester , 1975 ] . |
| 11 | Also , since to a large extent the promise of Nazi solutions was false and depended upon the Nazi ability to create the problems it intended to resolve by force , matters in Danzig had to move much more slowly because the city was subject to massive foreign observation through the League of Nations . |