Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] be subject to " in BNC.

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1 The suppression of vice is therefore , Lord Devlin argues , just as important as the suppression of subversive activities , and just as it is impossible to point to an area of morality which should not be subject to the law , so there is no area of morality which can be described as ‘ private ’ .
2 The Netherlands draft treaty maintained Luxembourg 's proposals for an extension of EC powers in social affairs , health , and education , which would also be subject to majority voting .
3 ( Congress had agreed to give the US administration until March 3 , 1991 , to submit an entire trade package which would then be subject to a single vote instead of the more usual procedure of amending it item by item . )
4 Some highly general tendencies , which will necessarily be subject to subsequent refinement and caution , can serve to represent the scene .
5 Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems .
6 It should n't affect most of them , because manufacturers tend to use disks made in the US , which wo n't be subject to duty , and the EC ’ .
7 She would have liked to dissolve into him and become part of him , so that she could never be subject to his indifference , or even be looked at by him in any objective way .
8 They may also be subject to similar constraints and failures .
9 They may also be subject to domestic merger control .
10 ORTF and ex-ORTF companies , and public service broadcasting organizations in 1990 , would be governed by texts ( laws , ordinances , decrees , rules and regulations ( that constituted a growing corpus of communications law , but they would also be subject to texts governing all public services , and , of course , to the Constitution itself . ’
11 Animals can not be parties to a lawsuit , or be said to be guilty , they can not be subject to the duties that attach to rights .
12 It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions , but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary : ( a ) For respect of the rights or reputations of others ; …
13 He may well be subject to control by his principal and his authority can normally be revoked .
14 The question was whether there was any reason , based on the nature of the power or the circumstances of its exercise , why it should not be subject to review for reasonableness and fairness ; in other words , was the decision or action ‘ justiciable ’ ?
15 It is relevant to recall in this connection that Younger did envisage situations where mere observation could seriously impair privacy — where , for example , the person observed had a reasonable expectation that he would not be subject to observation , or had deliberately taken steps to prevent surveillance , but special technical devices , either optical or electronic ( bugging ) , were used to spy upon him .
16 Moreover , if part of the equity were given in this way , it would immediately be subject to Schedule E income tax in the hands of the individuals — Sch30 , para 19 Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 .
17 For one-off or large scale contracts it will generally be preferable to negotiate an individual contract , and whilst some of the legal matters discussed in this book may be relevant to such a contract , it will generally be subject to many different considerations : for instance , where the contract is between two businesses , it will fall outside the scope of s3 of the UCTA 1977 .
18 There are two considerations : first , it must be positioned so that it can be connected easily to the existing stopcock and to the branch which feeds the drinking water tap in the kitchen ; second , it must be positioned so that it will not be subject to frost damage .
19 The expert clause is a clause in a contract and it will therefore be subject to the same rules of interpretation as a contract .
20 If the seller of goods gives an express warranty in respect of them , he will still be subject to the liabilities created by the implied terms in the SGA ( SGA 1979 , ss13-15 ) unless those liabilities are expressly excluded : for instance by a term such as : This warranty is given instead of , and excludes , all other express or implied conditions , warranties or other contractual undertakings concerned with any of the following : ( i ) the condition or quality of the goods , ( ii ) their fitness for any particular purpose , ( iii ) their compliance with any description which might otherwise arise at common law or under any statute .
21 Texas Gulf Sulphur , as well as affirming the general disclose or abstain principle , made it clear that the persons communicating inside information ( tippers ) to others ( tippees ) would be in breach of the law ; and the tippees themselves would also be subject to the disclose or abstain rule ( ie. prevented from tipping ) .
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