Example sentences of "subject to a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any elicitation procedure is itself subject to a degree of variation in terms of how successfully it stimulates a child to make a particular response . |
| 2 | The instances and their relations are subject to a degree of variation which would make it anachronistic even to posit a universal phenomenon called ‘ the state ’ . |
| 3 | To an extent it is this explosion of the curriculum which has contributed to the moves towards a more standardised , coherent curriculum for our schools and to demands that teachers be subject to a system of appraisal . |
| 4 | You will be subject to a system of periodical appraisal of your performance of your duties since appraisal will include the preparation of your Annual Report . |
| 5 | Finally , with regard to cl 10 , it should be noted that no obligation to permit alteration of the goods to make them non-infringing is imposed on the buyer , and that the obligation to return infringing goods , subject to a refund of the price , is only imposed on the buyer where it arises not at the option of the seller but because of a judgment or settlement relating to the claim of infringement ( which is presumably not entirely within the seller 's control ) . |
| 6 | Every consignment of beef arriving at the meat plant is subject to a total of 36 separate quality control checks , carried out by a team of qualified technologists . |
| 7 | It is important to recognise that the employees of a company or business which is subject to a change of ownership will have a natural apprehension which will produce both negative and positive expectations . |
| 8 | This effect , sometimes referred to as ‘ encoding specificity ’ ( e.g. Tulving and Thomson 1973 ; Tulving 1983 ) has been subject to a range of interpretations but what concerns us here is the general possibility that contextual factors might determine test performance by modulating the ease with which stored information is retrieved . |
| 9 | This is because creatures are subject to a range of ambient temperatures within which they can exist at the lowest , and hence most cost-effective , level of metabolic activity , known as their thermoneutral zone . |
| 10 | ’ Throughout her career she was subject to a range of nervous disorders . |
| 11 | As a result , ministers are subject to a range of ad hoc and constantly changing pressures from parliamentary representatives and interest groups that create a substratum of secondary political considerations to be taken into account . |
| 12 | If it were , we should be subject to a kind of indecision about the causal connection between condition-sets and their effects which is in fact entirely missing from our deliberations. ( ii ) On the given probabilistic analyses an event e , if it lowers the probability of an event f , can not be cause of f . |
| 13 | Thus , the demand patterns for products like coal , steel and heavy goods vehicles decline rapidly in a recession , ( and may be subject to a level of demand during boom conditions that they simply can not meet ) . |
| 14 | Or does it mean that if total incomes rise by 4 per cent and total profits by 5 per cent , all profits are subject to a levy of one-fifth of their increase over the previous period ? |
| 15 | Ferrets are subject to a variety of ailments . |
| 16 | For a long time reading has been subject to a variety of fads and fashions . |
| 17 | There are as we shall see , problems for consumers at the retailing stage in the sense that distribution is notoriously complex and subject to a variety of restrictive practices , but this is a common feature of the domestic market that applies to all consumer products whether Japanese or foreign . |
| 18 | As a medium , therefore , TV is subject to a variety of pressures — commercial , political and technological — that have the potential to generate considerable changes ; and because TV is such a powerful medium , these pressures ensure that it changes almost as much as other media that are less constrained by technological straitjackets . |
| 19 | Marketers in Companies supplying industrial goods markets have therefore to accept that the situations faced by their companies in these markets are subject to a variety of different contingencies ( Or specific circumstances ) . |
| 20 | Contingency factors Industrial market conditions are usually subject to a variety of contingencies , such as the development of buyer power , large buyers seeking small customers , the placing of conditions on specification and terms of supply , etc . |
| 21 | c ) The Influencer : purchase decisions may be subject to a variety of influences . |
| 22 | In this context , it should be noted that the rapid demolition of the colleges of education which followed was made possible by a unique regulator placed in the hands of the Secretary of State ; unlike the universities which are protected by a degree of autonomy and the polytechnics which are subject to a variety of controls and influences , overall teacher-training numbers and their distribution between individual institutions are directly controlled by the DES . |
| 23 | It is well known that survey data is subject to a variety of sources of measurement error such as misreporting , recall errors and telescoping of past incidents to give a false historical record . |
| 24 | Mike Cairns , director of the charity , said that elderly dementia sufferers were subject to a variety of methods of restraint ranging from the crude tying-down and locking up of the elderly to the more subtle use of drugs . |
| 25 | Many more children , however , will be subject to a lack of care in the terms described by these researchers . |
| 26 | As we heard from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary , the maximum penalty for someone aged 16 or 17 is subject to a ceiling of one year . |
| 27 | Thus even this category of complaint is subject to a measure of supervision . |
| 28 | The defendants were subject to a fine of £100 for breach of statutory duty in failing to fence factory machinery . |
| 29 | As previously stated , many of the terms which may be included in a set of standard terms of trading are likely to be subject to a test of reasonableness under s3 of the UCTA 1977 . |
| 30 | The Court of Appeal held that as the effect of clause 8 was to negative a tortious liability which the owner would otherwise incur to the hirer , it was an exclusion of liability , and subject to a test of reasonableness under the UCTA 1977 . |