Example sentences of "had been subjected to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury . |
| 2 | In none of the patients had the diagnosis been considered by the referring doctor and many patients had been subjected to extensive investigations . |
| 3 | the head of the operation in central Bosnia said the Moslems had been subjected to blatant human rights abuses and the U N might soon have to evacuate them . |
| 4 | Following in the footsteps of an earlier Departmental Committee , the Advisory Council painstakingly analysed the subsequent criminal careers of men who had been flogged , comparing them with those who had been subjected to other forms of penalty . |
| 5 | The ‘ Illustrious ’ had been subjected to vicious bombing only a short time previously , and the defending fighters had been battered by swarms of Me109s and Macchis . |
| 6 | Prime Minister John Compton defended Fostin by saying that he had been subjected to unjustified attacks in the press over the poor state of the country 's roads . |
| 7 | The fort had been subjected to ceaseless bombardment from the start of the German offensive and had been almost flattened , bottom . |
| 8 | In 1829 and 1830 the river Ray , which had been subjected to massive engineering works in order to drain the newly enclosed moor , began to flood the land beyond Otmoor . |
| 9 | Later on Feb. 2 Babic again rejected the peace plan , stating the following day that the participants at the meetings had been subjected to heavy pressure and physical assault from Serbian leaders and that Paspalj had been coerced into signing . |
| 10 | Despite the occasional call for a militant renewal of the Leavisian enterprise , by 1970 every one of its fundamental ideological props had been subjected to considerable strain . |
| 11 | It was known , for instance , that ‘ many thousands ’ of party and non-party members had been subjected to mass repression during the Stalin period ; this was the truth of the matter , and there was no escaping it . |
| 12 | All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death . |