Example sentences of "[was/were] subject [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially the South responded cautiously to the Northern invitation to reciprocate : South Koreans who undertook unofficial visits to the North were subject to long terms of imprisonment under the country 's National Security Law . |
| 2 | In these they were subject to varying degrees of revision and improvement , yet retained a number of the shortcomings resulting from their initial hurried drafts . |
| 3 | The decrees were subject to congressional ratification within 30 days . |
| 4 | The measures , which were subject to congressional approval within 30 days , included : ( i ) a 30-day price freeze to be followed by staged increases in wages and prices ; ( ii ) high taxes on wealth , share and gold dealings , capital gains and farm incomes ; ( iii ) the abolition of the cruzado and its replacement by a free floating cruzeiro currency ; ( iv ) an 18-month " liquidity squeeze " freezing an estimated $115,000 million in personal savings and corporate assets ; ( v ) dismantling of import barriers and suspension of export subsidies and the relaxation of foreign currency controls ; ( vi ) sharply increased utility rates ; ( vii ) an estimated $2,200 million cut in state subsidies to private business ; ( viii ) the closure of 24 state agencies ( expected to entail the dismissal of 81,000 employees ) including the Institute of Sugar and Alcohol ( IAA ) , the Brazilian Coffee Institute ( IBC ) , the steel holding company SIDERBRAS , the port authority PORTOBRAS , and INTERBRAS , a foreign oil trading subsidiary of the state oil monopoly PETROBRAS ; and ( ix ) the initiation of a programme to privatize state companies . |
| 5 | And finally , people er were subject to various forms of forced labour , most obviously of course conscription into the armed forces but other kinds of forced labour as well repairing the irrigation streams , digging dykes and , and so on and so forth . |
| 6 | and a further 2,500 acres were subject to compulsory purchase at March 1970 . |
| 7 | Behavioural norms in the centres were subject to abstract principles of ‘ common sense ’ . |
| 8 | The Obscene Publications Act 1959 had exempted theatre , cinema , and broadcasting from the provisions of the Act , since all were subject to formal regulation by public authorities . |
| 9 | In the late 1970s the early pioneering initiatives such as the Scottish Pupil Profile and the Evesham Personal Achievement Record were subject to considerable diversification by the entry into the field of various further education bodies . |
| 10 | Royal agents were subject to stringent control as natural enemies of provincial liberties : the Viceroy of Navarre — the only viceroy outside the American Empire — was regarded as a constitutional monarch within his province , and reminded of his status by the meanness of his palace beside that of the Provincial Deputation . |
| 11 | Most Libyan policemen lived at home , were members of the community they served , and hence were subject to conventional pressures of tribe and lineage as well as those professional ones of the force . |
| 12 | In 1878 diplomatic humiliation at the Congress of Berlin threw the government onto the political defensive at home , and during his last years Alexander II was subject to renewed pressure for further change . |
| 13 | The court , however , with misgivings expressed in the judgment of Oliver L.J. , at p. 1194D , felt unable to differ from the judge 's findings that the letters were never received : see p. 1194B : There was also a serious dispute as to whether the judge was entitled to reach his findings that the father did not have independent advice or that he was subject to undue influence from the son . |
| 14 | Any land in excess of this maximum was subject to compulsory purchase by the government . |
| 15 | The military itself was subject to serious unrest in January 1991 following new appointments by Gen. Luis Alonso Discua , the new C.-in-C. of the armed forces , who was known to be more moderate than his predecessor Gen. Arnulfo Cantarero López , who resigned in December 1990 . |
| 16 | The Court had heard argument as to whether the order was subject to judicial review in the light of the terms of section 29(3) of the Supreme Court Act 1981 . |
| 17 | The agreement was subject to legislative approval in both countries . |
| 18 | But till 1857 this code was subject to local customs in the province of York , in Wales , and in London which gave different rights to the wife and children . |
| 19 | The South American story is complicated by the fact that it was subject to sporadic waves of invasion by mammals from North America . |
| 20 | Sri Lanka , like India , was subject to periodic increases in the price of grain , but the link between crime and economic hardship was not as strong as one would expect from the Indian evidence . |
| 21 | To say more precisely whether these cuts produced something like the optimal solution to the level of investment ( though with the inconvenience of power cuts at the peak ) , is problematic in an economy which ( even in the 1950s ) was subject to considerable disequilibrium in prices and inherited production patterns . |