Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] have been [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men 's and women 's claims to social security income maintenance have been subject to different assumptions . |
| 2 | To illustrate this I want to mention briefly a list of ways in which the Milltown Action Team has been able to either increase employment or increase local people 's chances of gaining employment . |
| 3 | Since the 1960s in England , football spectatorship has been subject to increasingly stringent surveillance from the football authorities , law and the police . |
| 4 | Does he agree that much of our country 's undoubted export success has been due to competitive premium Export Credits Guarantee Department rates ? |
| 5 | In its recent cases , in fact , the Review Panel has been tough to the point of pushing its luck . |
| 6 | The logic instantiated in this research design has been used to effect in some branches of psychology and medicine as a method for testing causal explanations . |
| 7 | THE stock market has been kind to new firms which have recently joined the ranks of public companies . |
| 8 | As a result of challenges to the previous practice , both in the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights , telephone tapping has been subject to legislation since 1986 . |
| 9 | If it released the figures before it would be obvious to everyone that Mr Hyams ' management philosophy had been superior to that of MEPC 's . |
| 10 | In the case of the financial system , the Heath government had been sympathetic to the Bank of England 's ‘ Competition and Credit Control ’ proposals of 1971 which , while incoherent , promised more freedom of market competition . |
| 11 | The issue of commodity bundling has been central to a number of celebrated competition policy cases , including those involving IBM in both the United States and Europe . |
| 12 | Redundancies have by no means been restricted to those nearing the end of their careers or whose job performance has been subject to criticism . |
| 13 | Since the directive came into force in July last year only one fish farming application has been subject to an environmental assessment : a plan last October by Marine Harvest for salmon cages in Lamlash bay on the island of Arran . |
| 14 | Although Ernest Bevin 's Transport Workers had not come out on strike the real opprobrium of the Labour movement was held for Jimmy Thomas , the railwaymen 's leader , whose opposition to sympathetic strike action had been vital to the collapse of the Triple Alliance . |
| 15 | companies whose equity share capital has been subject to a marketing arrangement as described in Section 163(2) ( b ) of the Companies Act 1985 at any time during the 10 years prior to the relevant date ( e.g. companies whose shares have been traded on the USM or used to be traded on the 3rd Market ) ; |
| 16 | Leaving aside the growing use of the term ‘ support teacher ’ in a much wider sense ( i.e. to apply to any work undertaken by the non-school-based LEA support staff ) , even in its original sense ( I.E. providing support in the classroom rather than withdrawing children ) , the support teaching role has been open to a whole range of different interpretations . |
| 17 | Although the erythrocyte sedimentation rate has been used to measure disease activity in inflammatory bowel disease and to predict relapse after treatment , it is frequently normal in some patients with unequivocally active disease . |
| 18 | Disciplined political parties and a system of parliamentary and Cabinet government have been conducive to a restrained , impersonal style of political leadership . |
| 19 | Racketeering and syndicate crime have been invaluable to the government in that the persons and organisations involved develop the characteristics of legitimate business men . |
| 20 | THE draw for the 1990 World Cup has been kind to the host nation , Italy , but hard on the holders , Argentina , easy on the West Germans and Brazilians and fair to the Scots but mean to Belgium , Uruguay and Spain . |
| 21 | At first the information lack had been due to an instinctive veering away from the man who had caused her so much hurt and distress , but now it was more a matter of her rarely spending money on a paper and not having a television . |
| 22 | In the GLC case , which was the last in which a cinema film had been subject to charges of indecency , Lord Justice Bridge agreed with Lord Denning that the common-law test still applied to films , but went on : |
| 23 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 24 | We can see that the Government law and order policy has been irrelevant to all crime , including upper-world crime , and indeed that its social and economic policy has caused the crime rate to rise . |
| 25 | This increase in the money supply has been disproportionate to that in any other West European or North American country . |
| 26 | For example , the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children . |
| 27 | For a long time reading has been subject to a variety of fads and fashions . |
| 28 | The evolution of increasingly complex forms of market coordination has been fundamental to the economic development of capitalist economies and , through international trade , to sufficient economic integration to create the notion of a world economy . |