Example sentences of "[prep] be subjected to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consequently , they were to be subjected to forced labour to pay the equivalent . |
| 2 | I said I would be happy to talk to anyone but I refused to be subjected to personal attack . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Soon to be subjected to major overhaul ex-GWR No.5619 stands in the bay platform at Toddington . |
| 6 | However , it is clear from these three papers that the Continental traditions themselves need to be subjected to feminist scrutiny . |
| 7 | While I agree that orders made under section 6(2) and section 61(1) must be restricted to their proper restitutionary purpose , it is not , in my opinion , right to emasculate the restitutionary remedy available against persons ‘ knowingly concerned ’ on the ground that they are not liable to be subjected to compensatory remedies . |
| 8 | Foreign communities , whether tribal or otherwise , are no more anxious than you or I to be subjected to intensive and embarrassingly close scrutiny by a tiresome stranger whose aims and intentions may be , to say the least , puzzling . |
| 9 | A Chinese government spokesman said that the announcement had been made during Kaifu 's visit in part because of Japan 's experience as the only country to be subjected to nuclear attack . ) |
| 10 | Industry feared that even quite harmless products might have to be subjected to lengthy and costly hearings as a result . |
| 11 | If approved , plans for Cransley Lodge are almost certainly to be subjected to public enquiry . |
| 12 | The articles amount to premature judgment of an issue that has yet to be subjected to valid peer review . |
| 13 | Because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations it would be necessary for all the children to be subjected to psychiatric examination : the Official Solicitor recognises this but has postponed arranging any such examination pending the result of this appeal . |