Example sentences of "have be subject to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since his ship approached this world — the Sense-Sphere — Maitland 's crew have been subjected to telepathic assault , a process which has sent the vessel 's mineralogist quite mad .
2 Thus some streets have been subjected to partial redesign , wherein pavement and carriageway are kept separate on the whole , but crossing points are restructured as speed tables .
3 The report describes how in recent years hundreds of political activists or suspected activists , including prisoners of conscience , have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture and sentenced after unfair trials .
4 Rail users have been subjected to annual fare increases well above inflation for several years now , so it is quite justified for motorists to receive some of the same treatment .
5 My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups .
6 Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism .
7 Few areas have been subjected to uninterrupted denudation since then , but , as the earlier Tertiary climates were very different from the present ones , any surviving landforms could present difficulties to the investigator .
8 Thus infant mice have been subjected to electric-shock treatment and their emotionality assessed later on in comparison with non-shocked animals .
9 These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority .
10 Traditional assumptions about the development of the pre-revolutionary economy have been subjected to detailed re-examination .
11 These forms of strict liability have been retained by the Animals Act 1971 and , though they have been subjected to considerable modification , much of the old learning will continue to be relevant .
12 Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes .
13 One end result has been an increase in the extent to which gays and lesbians have been subjected to physical violence , including murder and mutilation .
14 Hundreds of generations of goats have been subjected to these ordeals each winter , and the best adapted animals have survived .
15 He thought Iran had been too long governed by a " powerful and greedy minority " and the " the people have been subjected to foreign exploitation and monopoly .
16 In general these rocks have been subjected to high grade metamorphism , have a variable grain size , and occur in north west-south east trending belts , although they have also been recognised as small discontinuous lenses , a few metres in length , intercalated with other gneissic rocks .
17 Consequently , RUC officers have been subjected to public degradation ceremonies , and there have been threats and physical attacks on themselves and their families , forcing some of them to relocate .
18 Most women who arrive at the prison have been subjected to brutal torture and a prolonged stay in a secret prison , They arrive in a very weak condition from which many are unable to recover because of the inadequate food and health facilities , Two doctors visit the prison , but they are very negligent , in part , as one Prisoner explained , because their pay is always in arrears .
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