Example sentences of "they [be] exposed to [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ Whenever they are exposed to real difficulty ’ , he pointed out , ‘ they run for the British umbrella . ’ |
3 | He saw that the alternative was to suppose that cells become different because they are exposed to different external influences . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | These substances , which tend to accumulate in tumour cells , turn from relatively benign chemicals into killers when they are exposed to red light . |
6 | These are very much the sort of symptoms seen in many chemical-sensitive patients when they are exposed to organic solvents . |