Example sentences of "[be] subject to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to obtain positive track equipment whereby the trolleys follow exactly the path of the tow vehicle , so if you have a winding route with 90° bends , your trolleys will not cause structural damage to the buildings or , worse still , be subjected to expensive damage themselves . |
| 2 | Every government policy will be subjected to environmental appraisal , co-ordinated by a Cabinet Minister for Environmental Protection . |
| 3 | It was officially announced on May 19 that the CPCz would be subjected to legal proceedings for defrauding the state between 1971 and 1989 by borrowing or leasing property under agreements of uncertain legality . |
| 4 | Soon to be subjected to major overhaul ex-GWR No.5619 stands in the bay platform at Toddington . |
| 5 | Imported products which failed to meet these standards could be subjected to extra duties providing that : the environmental standards had a scientific base ; the same standards must be applied to all competitive domestic production ; and imported products could be proved to be causing economic damage to competitive domestic industries . |
| 6 | We hope that these materials will not only be used for private study but be subjected to critical scrutiny by school-based inservice groups sharing common curricular interests and by staff of institutions of higher education concerned with both special needs teaching and specific curriculum areas . |
| 7 | The implications of this question , transformed by the reprehensible way in which the administration of life imprisonment had developed over the intervening years , were to be subjected to critical review by a Lords Select Committee in 1988–9 . |
| 8 | So since 1983 there has been a possibility that any estimate may be subjected to critical review by the House of Commons . |
| 9 | However , he feels that there are instances where regimes violating human rights might justifiably be subjected to external action . |
| 10 | If this is not diagnosed and recurrences occur at the same site , the patient will be labelled as a refractory case of non-specific urethritis and may be subjected to prolonged courses of antibiotic treatment , which , of course , will have no effect on the course of the disease . |
| 11 | On the vexed question of how far soldiers and sailors should themselves be subjected to compulsory periodic genital inspection , medics and military chiefs were divided . |
| 12 | This is not to say that such proposals must be accepted at face-value but they should be subjected to specific criticism rather than rejected in toto as merely a device for getting workers to ‘ participate ’ in their own exploitation . |
| 13 | The theoretical results can be subjected to specific mathematical tests ( concerning the spectrum of the motion , cf . |
| 14 | I said I would be happy to talk to anyone but I refused to be subjected to personal attack . |
| 15 | This does not mean that we thought , and still less required , that in no circumstances should J. be subjected to mechanical ventilation . |
| 16 | No one should be subjected to verbal harassment , just as no one should be threatened with physical violence . |
| 17 | They can be subjected to verbal and physical abuse and sexual harassment is all too common . |
| 18 | Consequently , they were to be subjected to forced labour to pay the equivalent . |
| 19 | Yes , we can look forward to that application , for under the provisions agreed in the treaty , if we and our European partners fail to implement directives that we sign up to , we shall be subjected to substantial fines by the European Court of Justice . |
| 20 | The best evidence that the victim — the person towards whom the threats , abuses or insults were directed — did believe that he was about to be subjected to immediate violence would come from the mouth of the victim himself , but it is not necessary to produce a bystander as a witness in court to prove the point ; it can be a matter for inference from the narrative of events presented to the court . |
| 21 | Because the CD68 antigen is derived from lysosomes , this finding is in agreement with the fact that lysosomal proteins may be subjected to apical transport , thus reaching the microvilli of polarised cells . |
| 22 | Before they reached heaven , the great majority of men and women would be required to spend a period in an intermediate location called purgatory , where those destined for eternal bliss would first be subjected to severe punishments for the sins they had committed on earth . |
| 23 | Because of the nature of the allegations and counter-allegations it would be necessary for all the children to be subjected to psychiatric examination : the Official Solicitor recognises this but has postponed arranging any such examination pending the result of this appeal . |
| 24 | The point at issue is whether such affective , and essentially subjective , aspects of educational and personal development can or should be subjected to formal recognition in the certification process . |
| 25 | How can a Head Teacher have the confidence to call in an adviser for consultation on a problem in his school when he is conscious that , as a consequence of that consultation , his school may be subjected to intense overtly critical scrutiny within a short space of time ? |
| 26 | While I agree that orders made under section 6(2) and section 61(1) must be restricted to their proper restitutionary purpose , it is not , in my opinion , right to emasculate the restitutionary remedy available against persons ‘ knowingly concerned ’ on the ground that they are not liable to be subjected to compensatory remedies . |
| 27 | Industry feared that even quite harmless products might have to be subjected to lengthy and costly hearings as a result . |
| 28 | Foreign communities , whether tribal or otherwise , are no more anxious than you or I to be subjected to intensive and embarrassingly close scrutiny by a tiresome stranger whose aims and intentions may be , to say the least , puzzling . |
| 29 | Those readers who have applied to traditional funding organisations for support will know that their ideas will be subjected to independent ‘ peer ’ review ; that is , comments are invited ( often in secret ) from those working in related fields on the quality of the proposed research and its chances for success . |
| 30 | Ramblers have long argued that the army 's needs should be subjected to independent scrutiny , adding the independent National Parks Review panel had agree with the group . |