Example sentences of "can be subject to " in BNC.

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1 Generally , a local authority will aim to cover the full cost of fees and a living allowance ‘ although this can be subject to your personal circumstances and will vary depending on whether you will live with your parents during term time , or in rented accommodation .
2 Even the simple article sent to the magazine Police Review can be subject to vetting and many Force Orders demand this privilege .
3 Coastal marshes , the controversial targets of environmentally destructive drainage proposals throughout the 1970s and 1980s , are also proving in many places to be simply undrainable , since , after five to ten years , soil can be subject to a process whereby the chemical bonding in the clay structure breaks down .
4 Bishop Jim Thompson , in Half Way , comments : ‘ The homosexual who has never had a physical relationship , because of religious conviction , or fear , or lack of opportunity , can be subject to the same panic in midlife as the heterosexual spinster or bachelor .
5 However , the Younger Committee argued that such a topic as privacy , which can be subject to rapid changes in social convention , was probably best not regulated on the basis of the slow build-up of case law , which would always tend to reflect the values of an earlier period rather than of contemporary society .
6 Old conversions can be subject to settlement .
7 Therefore , such a towed motor vehicle can be subject to offences of using without tax , insurance or in contravention of the Construction and Use Regulations .
8 ( Larkin 1979 , p. 75 ) since they can be subject to little planning control and have easier access than other rural housing tenures .
9 However , compulsory education in Britain is essentially provided at a local level and the number of pupils at a particular school can be subject to rapid fluctuations as a result of factors such as changing economic circumstances or new housing developments .
10 Holiday demand is highly sensitive to changes in underlying economic conditions ( it is relatively income-elastic for instance ) which means it can be subject to rapid changes as the cyclical pattern of economic activity develops .
11 And anything within the storm ‘ funnel ’ , as we call it , can be subject to the phenomenon or anything which passes through it .
12 Workshops , garages , and the vehicle dispatch and receipt areas can be subject to the same control ( previously the Factories Act ) and more specific requirements will be necessary for the storage of hazardous liquids , gases and combustibles , generally , with supporting requirements for fire fighting equipment .
13 as if to demonstrate the facility with which word-processed text can be subject to systematic manipulation , Perry repeats an entire paragraph of his text in which he lists the commands that effect this repetition ( 167 ) .
14 No single measure of public expenditure has met with universal agreement , and even when one has been widely used for some time , it can be subject to change for a variety of reasons .
15 If the cause is a self-replicating entity , the effect , be it ever so distant and indirect , can be subject to natural selection .
16 The Scottish National party has made its view perfectly clear on many occasions and I reiterate that view this evening : radioactive material , whether it be spent nuclear fuel or waste , should be stored above ground , on site , where it can be subject to close inspection .
17 Despite its demise , we still have to pay this tax for the next two years and can be subject to warrant sales or heavy fines for non-payment .
18 It will be readily appreciated that these can be subject to change .
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