Example sentences of "[be] expose to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most youngsters are exposed to Western culture at school and in the world around them . |
| 2 | This is probably because , locked in the artificial environment of a city in winter , they are exposed to insufficient natural light for their master clock to synchronise its cycle with that of the sun , and so their " day " grows longer . |
| 3 | A lightweight splash garment for chemical processing personnel who work in hot , humid environments and are exposed to corrosive chemicals is now available . |
| 4 | ‘ Whenever they are exposed to real difficulty ’ , he pointed out , ‘ they run for the British umbrella . ’ |
| 5 | Children are found in need of care , protection and control if the court establishes that they are not receiving the sort of care a good parent may reasonably be expected to give and they are falling into bad associations , are exposed to moral danger , or the lack of care is likely to cause suffering or seriously affect their health or proper development , or if it establishes that they are beyond the control of their parents . |
| 6 | Those living in industrial areas , or near rubbish incinerators , are exposed to other airborne chemicals from these sources . |
| 7 | So small volumes of lung tissue are exposed to high doses of alpha radiation . |
| 8 | Another 1,000 million people are exposed to high levels of suspended particles from coal , wood and oil combustion and traffic dust . |
| 9 | He saw that the alternative was to suppose that cells become different because they are exposed to different external influences . |
| 10 | The aim of one-stop shopping is lost and is not fulfilled where the parties are exposed to double jeopardy , that is , where a merger may be investigated both by the Commission under Community law and by national authorities under domestic law . |
| 11 | THOSE WHO WORK INDOORS AND ARE EXPOSED TO INTENSE SUN ONLY OCCASIONALLY ( IE : TWO WEEKS ANNUAL HOLIDAY ) . |
| 12 | Kenneth Markham , who works for the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research , funded by the New Zealand government , analysed flavonoids , photo-protective pigments which are synthesised in plants when they are exposed to harmful UV-B radiation , the wavelength most affected by the depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 13 | If the mites are exposed to short days after this prandial insult , they do n't show a diapause . |
| 14 | Equally they recognise that their pupils are exposed to sophisticated and easily accessible media which graphically , and at times gratu-itously , portray the violence and disharmony that exists in society . |
| 15 | These are very much the sort of symptoms seen in many chemical-sensitive patients when they are exposed to organic solvents . |
| 16 | These substances , which tend to accumulate in tumour cells , turn from relatively benign chemicals into killers when they are exposed to red light . |
| 17 | Cotinine in the urine is a reliable indicator that the subject has been exposed to passive smoking . |
| 18 | The researchers found that at three weeks of age , 39% of the infants had been exposed to passive smoking from any source . |
| 19 | It follows the publication of medical research which says men who 've worked for the Atomic Energy Authority and may have been exposed to certain radioactive materials have more than twice the normal risk of developing prostate cancer . |
| 20 | Doubt has been cast on a study which suggested that children of fathers who had been exposed to low levels of radiation in the course of their jobs were more likely to develop leukaemia . |
| 21 | In the case of black speakers , because LE is almost certainly their dominant language , though they may have been exposed to Creole first ; at any rate , the possibility that these occasional " Creolisms " are due to a carry-over from the " mother tongue " remains doubtful and unproven . |
| 22 | People living near about 50 American weapons manufacturing and testing sites may also have been exposed to carcinogenic radiation , the fund said . |
| 23 | If on the other hand the board does not fully and cleanly develop after a couple of minutes , then the board has not been exposed to UV light for long enough . |
| 24 | The whole board has previously been exposed to UV light . |
| 25 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 26 | The colonial government was upbraided for being out of touch ; failing to grasp that the colony had been exposed to liberal ideas from the outside world : ‘ The star of rule through the Chiefs was on the wane ’ , it declared . |
| 27 | Still other male mice spent a single four-hour period inhaling nitrous oxide before being put with females ( none of which had been exposed to hazardous chemicals ) . |
| 28 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 29 | THE closed world of special hospitals has been exposed to unusual public scrutiny since last year 's outcry over conditions at Ashworth , Merseyside . |
| 30 | Indeed there have been several recent cases ( for example , ones involving alleged sexual abuse ) in which wide-ranging injunctions have been issued to protect the welfare of children who may otherwise have been exposed to unwelcome publicity . |