Example sentences of "have [be] subject to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have omitted , with reluctance , references to a few natural features of interest that have been subject to abuse of privilege by a minority of visitors . |
| 2 | The reasons for this diversity have been subject to much debate ( section 2.4.2 ) and while it is not yet resolved , the fact remains that such forests house a huge genetic resource that has only been fractionally realised to yield what have ultimately become significant commercial products such as rubber . |
| 3 | Particular attention should be focused on hospital incinerators , since these have been subject to Crown immunity for many years and most are technically ill-equipped to burn at sufficiently high temperatures for adequate disposal of wastes ( Gatrell and Lovett 1991 ) . |
| 4 | There is an enormous variety in the urban experience that this book can not hope to explore to any great extent : different cities have been subject to contrasting pressures and have responded in different ways . |
| 5 | Thirdly , foreign banks have been subject to minimal regulations on their foreign currency ( non-sterling ) deposit and loan business by the Bank of England . |
| 6 | Anyone who believes they have been subject to unfair dismissal can complain to an industrial tribunal . |
| 7 | Pension funds have been subject to close scrutiny and performance measurement . |
| 8 | But even as the mainstream has turned on to S&M images , those involved in the scene have been subject to increased harassment from the authorities . |
| 9 | With both railways only ten miles apart , however , it makes the SDR figures all the more remarkable because both have been subject to the same local economic situation and relative decline in tourist numbers . |
| 10 | Lower priced drawings and prints , however , have been subject to a drop in prices in line with the general trends in the modern market . |
| 11 | The instruments for changing behaviour show an adapted regularity which suggests that they themselves have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 12 | They fit the animal 's information-gathering equipment to particular problems and , presumably , they have been subject to natural selection during evolution . |
| 13 | Qualities such as the physical condition of the member of the opposite sex , the resources it holds and the extent to which it bears characters that have been subject to sexual selection can all affect whether or not it is chosen ( see Halliday , 1983 ) . |
| 14 | In my view a good case has been made for the view that the learning processes involved in the formation of mating preference of humans have been subject to natural selection during the course of evolution . |
| 15 | Fatigue fractures , by their very nature , are more prevalent in structures that have been subject to stress over a long period of time . |
| 16 | In fact , as Mr Aslund points out , not all prices have been liberalised ; oil prices are still controlled ; retail , wholesale and ( especially ) export sales have been subject to restrictions . |
| 17 | In other words , party leaders in the UK are selected from experienced national politicians whose competence and party loyalty have been regularly tried and tested , who have been subject to a careful process of peer review and have come to the fore not as a result of their electoral appeal , but because they have won the confidence of the people with whom they would have to work in government . |
| 18 | Women 's claims to maintenance from the state have been subject to different constraints . |
| 19 | Daly , Frye and Millett all stress the way in which women have been subject to the power of men . |
| 20 | Ever since Stone Age man began to keep livestock and cultivate crops , farming methods have been subject to change . |
| 21 | Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 22 | Fortunately , major contemporary building styles have been subject to detailed analysis in terms of their social significance . |
| 23 | Counter arguments may not be employed to full effect , and individual injustices ( perhaps involving parents who have been subject to wholly baseless accusations ) may not be exposed . |
| 24 | 1005 , 1012 , said that the gist of the action of indebitatus assumpsit ‘ is , that the defendant , upon the circumstances of the case , is obliged by the ties of natural justice and equity to refund the money ’ it is clear that the remedies which the law has provided have been subject to certain important limitations . |
| 25 | Yet , by 1986 , in the Green Paper Paying for Local Government we were told that ‘ The Government is concerned , however , that GREs have been subject to frequent changes ’ ( Department of the Environment , 1986b ) . |
| 26 | Men 's and women 's claims to social security income maintenance have been subject to different assumptions . |
| 27 | At the same time , local authorities have been subject to increasing financial constraints , resulting in the level of provision of accommodation by social services remaining static or even contracting slightly . |
| 28 | Recently , they have been subject to many what one might call ‘ extraordinary audits ’ , which have been concerned with these matters . |
| 29 | Traditionally , releases of major pollutants to air , land and water have been subject to separate controls . |
| 30 | Indeed , it is only since 1965 that mergers have been subject to public scrutiny at all . |