Example sentences of "subjected to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Soon to be subjected to major overhaul ex-GWR No.5619 stands in the bay platform at Toddington . |
| 32 | Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 . |
| 33 | Certain residents are continuously subjected to unnecessary loutish behaviour and areas of the village frequently vandalised . |
| 34 | The steps were carried out in a fume hood subjected to ultraviolet light and hydrochloric acid washes between experiments . |
| 35 | A start might be made by women teachers coming to recognise how they themselves are subjected to sex-role stereotyping in the educational hierarchy , and by making links between their own position and that of their girl pupils . |
| 36 | Then again , Daniel Barenboim 's life-story reads a bit like one of Mann 's celebrated Bildungsromans — for it is the tale of a prodigy of immense talent and ambition who has been repeatedly subjected to Job-like tests of his emotional mettle . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | However , he feels that there are instances where regimes violating human rights might justifiably be subjected to external action . |
| 39 | Its chair , Professor John Knill , described the Ministry of Defence land as " an effectively pristine platform " , since much of it has never been subjected to modern agricultural techniques . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | The Catholic population was further incensed by revelations that a dozen internees had been beaten and subjected to sensory deprivation techniques while being interrogated . |
| 42 | Crucially , evacuees in the first wave were never subjected to systematic medical inspection — with the result that allegations thrived , both then and subsequently . |
| 43 | I said I would be happy to talk to anyone but I refused to be subjected to personal attack . |
| 44 | of the population of Britain is subjected to similar average levels to those in Bridge and Medway Roads . |
| 45 | Israel had been subjected to similar harsh international criticism when it had last deported a group of Palestinian activists , in May 1991 [ see p. 38213 ] . |
| 46 | In this respect they are probably quite unlike the apes , who have not yet been subjected to evolutionary pressures for rapid acquisition of symbol systems . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | This does not mean that we thought , and still less required , that in no circumstances should J. be subjected to mechanical ventilation . |
| 50 | He described the circumstances of the case as ‘ exceptional ’ and said the families had been ‘ subjected to great anxiety and distress ’ . |
| 51 | Station-masters in all but the meanest stations aspired to high status , although they were subjected to great physical dangers during times of civil disturbance , the Revolution , and the Civil War . |
| 52 | For isotropic materials subjected to small strains Hooke 's law reduces to the form where — the Lame constant , is given by . |
| 53 | DNA was isolated , digested with various restriction enzymes , subjected to Southern blotting and hybridised to several probes spanning the entire NF-L gene . |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | Nevertheless , most natural populations , at most times , change much more slowly than they would if subjected to strong directional selection . |
| 56 | Natural ‘ screening ’ processes which may wed out defective eggs or sperm are by-passed , the mother is subjected to a regime of hormone injections to bring on ovulation , and the gametes and embryo are subjected to various mechanical manipulations . |
| 57 | The reliability of the developed approach was further confirmed by the fact that no protected bases were observed when an identical binding reaction was subjected to various DMS treatments in solution ( prior to electrophoresis ) , presumably due to the kinetic instability of the Jun-AP-1-binding site complex ( 7 ) which DNase I being a bulky molecule is unable to sense . |
| 58 | Models of an inventory are developed , and subjected to various mathematical and statistical formulae , with the object of producing data to enable a considered answer to be given to the two questions mentioned . |
| 59 | Samples of natural grass were collected from the author 's garden , merely subjected to various conditions and placed on blackened baking trays . |
| 60 | Following his September release from a British prison after serving seven years of a 10-year sentence for a failed car bomb attempt in London in 1980 , Kourosh Fouladi , an Iranian citizen , claimed that he had been " subjected to various forms of brutal physical and psychological torture " by the UK police and security forces . |