Example sentences of "[noun pl] have be subject to " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Until silver objects from archaeological sites have been subjected to more systematic metallurgical analysis one can hardly be sure when and where the metal began to be extracted from galena ores .
2 Few areas have been subjected to uninterrupted denudation since then , but , as the earlier Tertiary climates were very different from the present ones , any surviving landforms could present difficulties to the investigator .
3 Thus infant mice have been subjected to electric-shock treatment and their emotionality assessed later on in comparison with non-shocked animals .
4 This attempt to produce a scientific scheme of ideas has been subjected to severe criticism which need not be repeated here ( see Simon 1957 ; Rose 1975 ) .
5 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 .
6 Consequently , RUC officers have been subjected to public degradation ceremonies , and there have been threats and physical attacks on themselves and their families , forcing some of them to relocate .
7 One end result has been an increase in the extent to which gays and lesbians have been subjected to physical violence , including murder and mutilation .
8 Despite the occasional call for a militant renewal of the Leavisian enterprise , by 1970 every one of its fundamental ideological props had been subjected to considerable strain .
9 the head of the operation in central Bosnia said the Moslems had been subjected to blatant human rights abuses and the U N might soon have to evacuate them .
10 In none of the patients had the diagnosis been considered by the referring doctor and many patients had been subjected to extensive investigations .
11 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 .
12 Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes .
13 Within the health service the very direct influence of the doctors has been subjected to considerable attention by policy analysts .
14 It was known , for instance , that ‘ many thousands ’ of party and non-party members had been subjected to mass repression during the Stalin period ; this was the truth of the matter , and there was no escaping it .
15 Claiming that assurances of safe conduct for UN inspectors had been ignored , the team 's leader Nikita Smidovich alleged in Manama , Bahrain , on Oct. 30 that members had been subjected to harassment and death threats .
16 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 .
17 Many of the mothers felt their children had been subjected to physical and emotional abuse by those caring for them during their absence , and were concerned about their lack of academic progress at school .
18 Children have been subjected to tests and investigations by doctors , psychologists and teachers with the aim of pinpointing the nature of the problem and in the hope that this might lead to specific programmes of teaching and intervention .
19 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 .
20 Perhaps after a long and unpleasant time in various German prison camps in Bavaria , Czechoslovakia and Brunswick , where the prisoners had been subjected to very severe bombing raids in which a number of them were killed , he had lost some of his characteristically boyish expression , but his sense of humour had n't suffered .
21 Later on Feb. 2 Babic again rejected the peace plan , stating the following day that the participants at the meetings had been subjected to heavy pressure and physical assault from Serbian leaders and that Paspalj had been coerced into signing .
22 He was still more worried about the extensive rewriting of history that school text-books had been subjected to ; something of which most of us remained unaware until after the Second World War .
23 There had been several nasty incidents recently in the town when lone women had been subjected to attacks of one kind or another , so she could n't help but look over her shoulder as she made her way along the rows of parked cars to where her small Fiesta was parked next to a sleek-looking Jaguar .
24 ‘ Your lungs have been subjected to an intense diet of nightclub smoke and decorating fumes — you could do with some fresh air .
25 Thus some streets have been subjected to partial redesign , wherein pavement and carriageway are kept separate on the whole , but crossing points are restructured as speed tables .
26 In general these rocks have been subjected to high grade metamorphism , have a variable grain size , and occur in north west-south east trending belts , although they have also been recognised as small discontinuous lenses , a few metres in length , intercalated with other gneissic rocks .
27 Hundreds of generations of goats have been subjected to these ordeals each winter , and the best adapted animals have survived .
  Next page