Example sentences of "[adv] subject to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition , during the early 1980s funds for housing improvement were very much subjected to central government control and were issued in a rather unpredictable fashion , which made the planning of local grants very difficult and variable . |
| 2 | Samples of natural grass were collected from the author 's garden , merely subjected to various conditions and placed on blackened baking trays . |
| 3 | Firstly , homosexual conduct , although no longer subjected to criminal penalties , except when it occurred in clearly defined public circumstances , would continue to be viewed as morally reprehensible ; and secondly , the move did not imply a relaxation of control over homosexual behaviour or was not intended by its main supporters to imply such a relaxation of control . |
| 4 | Because of the need to be able to assimilate and present objectively masses of map data and also because of scepticism sometimes expressed about their very existence , rejuvenation features , mainly successions of erosion surfaces , were quite early subjected to quantitative methods of investigation and depiction , which still illustrate well some of the problems and pitfalls involved . |
| 5 | Then again , Daniel Barenboim 's life-story reads a bit like one of Mann 's celebrated Bildungsromans — for it is the tale of a prodigy of immense talent and ambition who has been repeatedly subjected to Job-like tests of his emotional mettle . |
| 6 | Reports of rape of tribal women by security force members continue to be received by AI , and non-combatant tribal members were also subjected to other forms of torture during 1989 and 1990 . |
| 7 | Imamu is also subjected to physical torture when Perk goes missing and the police think that by torturing him , they will get some information out of him . |
| 8 | The film avoided showing the strategy and the overall complexity and scope of the operation , possibly because the orders given by some senior officers were later subjected to considerable criticism . |
| 9 | Shops like greengrocers and chippies , with pitiful cash takings , were routinely subjected to armed robberies with shotguns , balaclavas — the whole bit . |
| 10 | Employees are routinely subjected to psychological screening and polygraph tests to evaluate their honesty . |
| 11 | In this chapter Denis Mongon argues that the predominant approach to disruptive incidents in school is through the displacement model whereby pupils are increasingly subjected to negative sanctions until they are finally excluded . |
| 12 | After the return to civilian rule , the newly formed state radio corporations , which had been set up to be independent of Federal Government authority , were immediately subjected to local political control . |
| 13 | Certain residents are continuously subjected to unnecessary loutish behaviour and areas of the village frequently vandalised . |
| 14 | These individuals are then subjected to differential survival through the operation of a range of mortality factors that eliminate them either before or after reproduction . |
| 15 | The membrane pellet was then resuspended in buffer B at a concentration of 14mg protein per ml and then subjected to freezing and thawing . |
| 16 | Not only then do about a quarter of respondents cite pavement parking as one of the problems for pedestrians in that they object to the loss of pavement space to the vehicle and the obstruction caused by it , but they are then subjected to considerable accident rates as a result of the broken slabs and uneven surfaces that result ( Figure 8.3 ) . |
| 17 | Since 1980 , computer tomography of the thorax and upper abdomen and ultrasouns examination of the neck have been carried out in order to identify abnormal lymph nodes , which are then subjected to cytological examination . |
| 18 | The resulting A2U model was then subjected to rigid body minimization by use of X-PLOR , limited rebuilding by FRODO , simulated annealing refinement with X-PLOR and conventional restrained least-squares refinement by PROLSQ , to an R factor of 23.4% at 2.8Å , with an r.m.s. bond-length deviation of 0.023Å . |
| 19 | Crucially , evacuees in the first wave were never subjected to systematic medical inspection — with the result that allegations thrived , both then and subsequently . |
| 20 | It is technically perfectly lawful for a Minister of the Crown to be empowered to make statutory instruments in such a way that they are never subjected to parliamentary scrutiny — indeed , there is no requirement of promulgation or publication for an instrument to become legally binding and an instrument made by the Minister and cached in his bottom drawer could be as binding as the Theft Act ( although in this situation ignorance might , rarely in our law , offer a defence by reason of s.3(2) of the Statutory Instruments Act |
| 21 | Another and in some respects even more powerful exemplification of the use of symbols by Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic man is to be found in hitherto little noticed marks on antler and bone artefacts recently subjected to intensive study by Alexander Marshack with the aid of high-magnification photography . |