Example sentences of "[prep] [be] subject to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each year , a number of employees suffer the galling experience of being subjected to disciplinary proceedings for misconduct which they deny having committed . |
| 2 | We asked if she was getting tired of being subjected to all these questions , and she said that she had a few more minutes before she had to go and meet Jack and Rod for lunch . |
| 3 | 8.7 It is anticipated on the basis of past experience that employees will in some respect ‘ self-select ’ for external counselling as a reaction to extreme personal stress sustained as a result of being subjected to severe violence or aggressive behaviour . |
| 4 | Consequently , they were to be subjected to forced labour to pay the equivalent . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I said I would be happy to talk to anyone but I refused to be subjected to personal attack . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Soon to be subjected to major overhaul ex-GWR No.5619 stands in the bay platform at Toddington . |
| 12 | As potential primitive terms , not to be subjected to further analysis , they are here defined ostensively , that is to say by exemplification : |
| 13 | However , it is clear from these three papers that the Continental traditions themselves need to be subjected to feminist scrutiny . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes . |
| 16 | This brief résumé of methods of allocation omits an important area which is rarely controlled through financial allocation , yet which certainly needs to be subjected to some form of central control . |
| 17 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . ) |
| 20 | Industry feared that even quite harmless products might have to be subjected to lengthy and costly hearings as a result . |
| 21 | If approved , plans for Cransley Lodge are almost certainly to be subjected to public enquiry . |
| 22 | The articles amount to premature judgment of an issue that has yet to be subjected to valid peer review . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister 's work was sufficiently heavy and responsible without being subjected to daily vindictive , merciless attacks in the columns of the newspapers , and he urged that whatever government might come into office , measures should be taken to prevent the continuance of this Press tyranny . |
| 25 | Again , mediation failure may occur when ideas are put into operation in the application phase without being subjected to adequate appraisal . |