Example sentences of "[be] subject to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to obtain positive track equipment whereby the trolleys follow exactly the path of the tow vehicle , so if you have a winding route with 90° bends , your trolleys will not cause structural damage to the buildings or , worse still , be subjected to expensive damage themselves . |
| 2 | Every government policy will be subjected to environmental appraisal , co-ordinated by a Cabinet Minister for Environmental Protection . |
| 3 | It was officially announced on May 19 that the CPCz would be subjected to legal proceedings for defrauding the state between 1971 and 1989 by borrowing or leasing property under agreements of uncertain legality . |
| 4 | Soon to be subjected to major overhaul ex-GWR No.5619 stands in the bay platform at Toddington . |
| 5 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 6 | I was angry that humans should be subjected to such degradation and I realised just how lucky I had been so far . |
| 7 | The positivist commitment to the achievement of empirical goals such as causally relevant variables and effective penal treatments ( rather than such nebulous things as ‘ justice ’ and ‘ desert ’ ) required it to be subjected to such empirical assessment . |
| 8 | the service requested is intended to confer on the tribunal making the request jurisdiction over a person who by the law of the State of execution can not be subjected to such jurisdiction . |
| 9 | For that matter , I find it sad that Arbroath smokies , the most delicate , expensive and rare of all the smoked haddock tribe , should be subjected to such treatment . |
| 10 | While the application of procedural checks to licensing activities has therefore increased it would be mistaken to say that it is now accepted that any licensing function should be subjected to such safeguards . |
| 11 | ‘ No decent Egyptian woman would let herself be subjected to such a thing , ’ said Zeinab , removing Owen 's hand . |
| 12 | In cases where the terms are likely to be subjected to such scrutiny , they must therefore be sufficiently balanced to be acceptable to the client 's trading partners . |
| 13 | She had dressed with extra care that morning and knew that she looked her best in the slim-fitting navy suit with a spotless white blouse , but it was disconcerting to be subjected to such a scrutiny . |
| 14 | Also , if a person chooses not to smoke why should he be subjected to such a poisonous , foul and unpleasant cocktail of several thousand gases in the form of tobacco smoke ? |
| 15 | We hope that these materials will not only be used for private study but be subjected to critical scrutiny by school-based inservice groups sharing common curricular interests and by staff of institutions of higher education concerned with both special needs teaching and specific curriculum areas . |
| 16 | The implications of this question , transformed by the reprehensible way in which the administration of life imprisonment had developed over the intervening years , were to be subjected to critical review by a Lords Select Committee in 1988–9 . |
| 17 | So since 1983 there has been a possibility that any estimate may be subjected to critical review by the House of Commons . |
| 18 | And anyone found guilty of drinking alcohol may be subjected to 80 lashes of a cane . |
| 19 | However , he feels that there are instances where regimes violating human rights might justifiably be subjected to external action . |
| 20 | If this is not diagnosed and recurrences occur at the same site , the patient will be labelled as a refractory case of non-specific urethritis and may be subjected to prolonged courses of antibiotic treatment , which , of course , will have no effect on the course of the disease . |
| 21 | On the vexed question of how far soldiers and sailors should themselves be subjected to compulsory periodic genital inspection , medics and military chiefs were divided . |
| 22 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |
| 23 | The theoretical results can be subjected to specific mathematical tests ( concerning the spectrum of the motion , cf . |
| 24 | I said I would be happy to talk to anyone but I refused to be subjected to personal attack . |
| 25 | This does not mean that we thought , and still less required , that in no circumstances should J. be subjected to mechanical ventilation . |
| 26 | No one should be subjected to verbal harassment , just as no one should be threatened with physical violence . |
| 27 | They can be subjected to verbal and physical abuse and sexual harassment is all too common . |
| 28 | Consequently , they were to be subjected to forced labour to pay the equivalent . |
| 29 | Yes , we can look forward to that application , for under the provisions agreed in the treaty , if we and our European partners fail to implement directives that we sign up to , we shall be subjected to substantial fines by the European Court of Justice . |
| 30 | The best evidence that the victim — the person towards whom the threats , abuses or insults were directed — did believe that he was about to be subjected to immediate violence would come from the mouth of the victim himself , but it is not necessary to produce a bystander as a witness in court to prove the point ; it can be a matter for inference from the narrative of events presented to the court . |