Example sentences of "be subject to [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sentencing powers of magistrates are subject to certain general statutory restrictions in addition to the maximum penalties prescribed for each individual offence . |
| 2 | For instance , all Britain 's civil nuclear installations are subject to Euratom ( the European Atomic Energy Community ) safeguards procedures ; all the civilian nuclear installations are subject to International Atomic Energy Authority safeguards , enshrined in a tripartite agreement between Britain , Euratom and the IAEA . |
| 3 | In Darlington applications have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks . |
| 4 | Letters have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks . |
| 5 | These are simply recognised by common law and convention and are subject to various legal and conventional limitations . |
| 6 | Speed humps are subject to extensive limiting criteria and have legal implications , and so are rarely used . |
| 7 | Men are subject to two contradictory pressures when they become fathers . |
| 8 | As we mentioned , we confined our analysis to sperm concentration because this is the most objective measure of semen quality ; assessments of morphology and motility are subject to greater interlaboratory and intralaboratory variation . |
| 9 | The accounts of all local authorities are subject to annual external audit . |
| 10 | They are subject to much more competitve pressure . |
| 11 | Nor is this influence obvious or straightforward , for a major reason why different research comes up with different findings and has different implications for policy and practice is that those findings are subject to different underlying assumptions and have different ideological agendas . |
| 12 | ( 6 ) Some dangerous goods are subject to special statutory regimes , for example , under the Firearms Acts 1968 and 1982 ( as amended ) , the Crossbows Act 1987 . |
| 13 | They are , temporarily and on a smaller scale , in the same position as banks or building societies or insurance companies , all of which are subject to special regulatory regimes to ensure that depositors and policyholders are adequately protected . |
| 14 | It is also stipulated in the agreement that the only works of art that may not be transferred to Bilbao from New York are those that are subject to American legal restrictions , or works that are too fragile to travel . |
| 15 | They are subject to several common law rules evolved by the courts as well as to certain recent pieces of legislation . |
| 16 | You may find that you are subject to some good-natured heckling from the audience . |
| 17 | Windscreen claims are no different to those on motor policies and are subject to any excess applicable to the policy . |
| 18 | All are subject to fierce statistical debates about the methods and whether the results can be extended to a national scale . |
| 19 | All motorway and major trunk road schemes are subject to rigorous environmental assessment . |
| 20 | For example , the available evidence suggests that commodity futures are subject to little systematic risk , while index futures have roughly the same systematic risk as the market portfolio , which is the portfolio of all shares in the market held in proportion to their market capitalization . |
| 21 | The main conclusion from this research is that although health and work ability decline in some respects with age , they are subject to considerable personal variance . |
| 22 | In aggregate , it will certainly be a greater cause of loss than the various forms of self-dealing , discussed in Chapter 7 , which have generated a substantial body of case law and are subject to detailed statutory regulation . |
| 23 | The other three are subject to severe cultural condemnation and can be said to represent the non-Chewong person , by which I mean people outside the wider social universe of humans and superhumans , in effect Malays and Chinese . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The scheme was launched 14 years ago and had been subject to two public enquiries , both of which recommended the building of a tunnel under Oxleas Wood , at an extra cost of £10 million . |
| 27 | 1005 , 1012 , said that the gist of the action of indebitatus assumpsit ‘ is , that the defendant , upon the circumstances of the case , is obliged by the ties of natural justice and equity to refund the money ’ it is clear that the remedies which the law has provided have been subject to certain important limitations . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A possible explanation is that the Celtic tradition remained in these areas longer than the south and west , the people of which with their close Gallic links had been subject to greater Roman influence before the conquest , this region too was where the vast majority of the figured pottery was made . |
| 30 | Despite some speculation on the extent of their influence in shaping and informing defence policy this has not so far been subject to any systematic analysis . |