Example sentences of "[be] subjected to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Accordingly , as for example in Bentham 's design for a prison , Fine ( 1979 p 85 ) observed : " … inmates were to be subjected to a perpetual supervision in the isolation of their cells by an " inspector " , whose presence was always visible in the shape of the central guard tower , but whose particular focus and conclusions were neither within the vision , knowledge or control of the suspected . " |
2 | Passengers must also be selected at random and be subjected to a complete baggage check . |
3 | Up to 30 farms are being sought initially before scientists choose one which can be subjected to a systematic research programme in which partridges will be fitted with electronic tracking devices . |
4 | Perhaps even worse , you might be subjected to a disciplinary inquiry when you believe that you have done nothing wrong . |
5 | He contends that in the absence of sufficient fact to establish , on the balance of probability , that the Policyholder could be subjected to a criminal prosecution in respect of the goods , then indemnity should be granted . |
6 | He contends that in the absence of sufficient fact to establish , on the balance of probability , that the Policyholder could be subjected to a criminal prosecution in respect of the goods , then indemnity should be granted . |
7 | The new code would be subjected to a three-month consultation period and was expected to become effective in the autumn of 1990 . |
8 | They have to be subjected to a rigorous trial by doubt , and only those considered ‘ indubitable ’ or ‘ certain beyond any shadow of doubt ’ are finally accepted as true . |
9 | Most will be reluctant to undergo assessment , either because they are involved in criminal activity or they expected to be subjected to a judgmental and disapproving attitude towards themselves , or because they are afraid their children may be removed from them . |
10 | A person ‘ knowingly concerned ’ in a transaction entered into in contravention of section 3 can only be subjected to a restitutionary order under subsection ( 2 ) if and to the extent that the person received money or property under the transaction in question . |
11 | This accident was one of the factors which prompted the then Labour government to decide that the new oxide fuel plant should be subjected to a full-scale public inquiry . |
12 | Since the monarch obviously could not be subjected to a direct barrage of demand from all comers , certain informal roads to royal favour came to be established , controlled by gate-keepers with access to the sovereign . |
13 | If policies are to improve , third-world governments need to be subjected to a shrewd combination of pressure and advice . |
14 | It is no joke , I assure you , to be subjected to the impertinent questioning of those who have come to your public meeting neither for enlightenment nor even good fellowship but to make the candidate appear a proper Charlie . |
15 | To be governed is to be subjected to the regular pressure of an authority operating according to fixed rules . |
16 | Although fine material may be transported far out to sea in suspension , much of the coarser debris eroded from the cliffs or brought to the coast by the rivers accumulates on the beach , where it may be subjected to the constructive action of waves . |
17 | The elderly heart and spine should never be subjected to the tremendous effort required to move heavy furniture and equipment in order to clean under and behind them . |
18 | In a statement on April 22 designed to convince a visiting fact-finding mission from the Organization of American States ( OAS ) [ see below ] of his democratic intent , he promised to submit his decision to a plebiscite on July 5 , and pledged that proposed constitutional reforms would also be subjected to the popular vote on Aug. 31 . |
19 | For her to be subjected to the whimsical will of a clown ! |
20 | Unopposed Private Bills do not need to be subjected to the quasi-judicial type of proceeding apt in the case of opposed bills . |
21 | A wall had to be demolished , and patients on these wards could not be subjected to the unavoidable dust and noise which would result . |
22 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
23 | A pesticide which has long been thought to cause sickness and death in farm workers has been subjected to a partial ban following an agreement between the manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
24 | On completion of the conservation programme the Firefly was officially rolled out at Duxford on June 2 , in company with the IWM 's Fairey Gannet XG797 and Sea Hawk WM969 , both of which had been subjected to a similar conservation programme . |
25 | It was not easy , even for a German captain , to intervene at this stage , but once he had been subjected to a long discussion and much persuasion , he contacted the SS in Tabiano and managed to have us set free . |
26 | Thus in Europe , automobiles have been subjected to a good deal of standardization in matters concerning safety and pollution , but that has not precluded the car industry from providing a vast range of choice in terms of styling and performance . |
27 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
28 | Certain cyanoferrates are approved as food additives , for example to salt , having first been subjected to a thorough toxicological evaluation . |
29 | The idea that a local authority owes a fiduciary duty to its ratepayers is by no means new , but it has never been subjected to a thorough judicial investigation . |
30 | This rather rosy picture has been subjected to a great deal of criticism . |