Example sentences of "be being subjected to " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Households in the Coventry area report that they are being subjected to intimidation reminiscent of this time .
3 Another factor is the evaluation apprehension , namely , the anxiety experienced by the subject that his ability and character are being subjected to examination .
4 From the latest production line coupé to the deadly stealth bomber , potential prototype designs are being subjected to the rigours of the physical world without a single puff of wind or screech of brakes .
5 Undoubtedly many arts teachers will greet this news with relief , but for others there will be concern that here again the arts are being subjected to a form of discrimination , and that this could once more lead to their being marginalized .
6 I 've seen pensioners waiting outside in the rain and it 's even worse for those further ahead in the line inside who are being subjected to those dreadful video adverts while they wait .
7 IAP — being approved : Work is complete and the results are being subjected to quality approval .
8 IAP — being approved Work is complete and the results are being subjected to quality approval .
9 Work is complete and the results are being subjected to quality approval .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 All the local authorities were being subjected to this dictation from departments in London , and a centralised bureaucracy stood for extravagance . ’
13 On Nov. 13 , 1989 , External Affairs Minister Omar Sey said that there was incontrovertible evidence that Gambian citizens travelling to and from Senegal were being subjected to harassment .
14 Reports from the Muslim Refugees ' Relief Organization on Oct. 29 suggested that Moslems in Mannar were being subjected to widespread harassment by Tamil rebels , allegedly for co-operating with the security forces .
15 Reports issued by human rights organizations claimed that members of the civilian population remaining in Kuwait were being subjected to brutal torture and repression .
16 In November the Commission approved a report by its special rapporteur on torture , Peter Koojimaans , which alleged that increasing numbers of children were being subjected to cruel and degrading treatment .
17 The Deputy Governor of Kordofan state in central Sudan , Umar Sulayman Adam , on March 12 denied allegations that the Nuba people of the Nuba mountains in his state were being subjected to official repression .
18 When someone who was a protégé of the Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna , a close friend of Nikolai Miliutin , and the tutor to the heir to the throne decided to run the risk of going into print , conservatives realized that they were being subjected to a deliberate attempt on the part of reformers to prevent them from treating serfs harshly .
19 The totals had been disclosed at a time when local authorities and others were being subjected to curbs for alleged lack of efficiency .
20 Returning soldiers found the civil population too obsessed with their own hardships to try to understand what they were being subjected to at Verdun .
21 The formula is being subjected to a review by the NHS Management Committee .
22 Our spending on these activities is being subjected to ever-tighter business disciplines .
23 In all cases , however , community spending is being subjected to ever tighter business disciplines .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 Claudia lost her breath ; this was intolerable — not only had she been forced to accompany him on a wild chase after Garry Turner , but she was being subjected to what amounted to sexual harassment .
27 Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech .
28 Especially with the rough treatment it was being subjected to .
29 To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best .
30 The girl was doused with petrol and set alight after complaining that she was being subjected to ‘ Eve-teasing , ’ the Indian euphemism for sexual harassment , rife in a culture in which dating is unusual .
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