Example sentences of "exposed to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rape victims , for example , may fear the consequences of reporting the act , and may not wish to be cross-examined by the police or in court and be exposed to possible innuendoes and suggestions that they ‘ encouraged ’ their assailant . |
| 2 | The face as image is always precarious , for it is always exposed to possible re-framing and re-definition by other images . |
| 3 | The main wind-break should protect the side of the garden most exposed to prevailing winds , with individual or grouped shrubs positioned to limit the impact of other seasonal winds and create sheltered corners for delicate plants . |
| 4 | The requirement for higher concentrations to disrupt pancreatic lysosomes may reflect the fact that , in an in vitro system , the period of incubation of isolated lysosomes with cholesteryl ester is necessarily limited ( 30 minutes in our study ) whereas in the previous in vivo study , lysosomes were exposed to increased levels of cholesteryl esters for a much longer period ( up to four weeks ) . |
| 5 | Apart from the paperwork and delays incurred on both sides of the bridge , exporters found themselves exposed to political pressures and a declining market , as Jordan developed its own agricultural potential on the east side of the Jordan valley . |
| 6 | Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , Scotland 's Lord Advocate , said he would have resigned if exposed to political pressure , and Assistant Attorney-General Bob Mueller insisted that no one had even tried to influence the investigation . |
| 7 | The way of life in these republics in the 1980s remained demonstrably much more ‘ Western ’ than that in the other Soviet republics , and they were among those most exposed to outside cultural influences ( Estonia , for instance , had ready access to Finnish television and ‘ Dallas ’ and ‘ Dynasty ’ had a devoted following ) . |
| 8 | Those living in industrial areas , or near rubbish incinerators , are exposed to other airborne chemicals from these sources . |
| 9 | Important differences between the exposures of atomic bomb survivors and nuclear industry workers are that nuclear industry workers are more likely to be contaminated internally by the ingestion , inhalation , or other intake of radioactive substances ; to be exposed to other types of external radiation such as neutrons ; and to be exposed to chemicals at work . |
| 10 | But then the exhibit , the quarrel , hateful and confusing in being exposed to other eyes , changed character and became after all , evidence for the defence . |
| 11 | A clearer proof that cells change when exposed to new influences from outside is afforded by embryonic induction , first described by Spemann in 1924 . |
| 12 | The total number of schools associated with the various projects is small , and , while even these may not continue to incorporate the new ideas in their user education , they have been sufficiently exposed to new approaches to schools user education to suggest that for them at least and probably for many other schools traditional school library instruction will not be quite the same again . |
| 13 | Children are found in need of care , protection and control if the court establishes that they are not receiving the sort of care a good parent may reasonably be expected to give and they are falling into bad associations , are exposed to moral danger , or the lack of care is likely to cause suffering or seriously affect their health or proper development , or if it establishes that they are beyond the control of their parents . |
| 14 | The case was brought under the old law and it was alleged that the child in question was exposed to moral danger . |
| 15 | She was then exposed to various synthetic chemicals in turn , and reacted badly to diesel fumes , cigarette smoke , natural gas , chlorine and alcohol . |
| 16 | Doubt has been cast on a study which suggested that children of fathers who had been exposed to low levels of radiation in the course of their jobs were more likely to develop leukaemia . |
| 17 | This feature is also evident in their natural habitat ; they are found most often in areas which are not exposed to strong currents , except perhaps briefly when the tide turns . |
| 18 | Recent work in which an adenoma cell line was exposed to chemical carcinogens has duplicated many of the in vivo genetic findings . |
| 19 | Many children exposed to global pluralism today lack this , and this is the underlying concern of those who support religiously confessional approaches to education . |
| 20 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 21 | Arguing that a dominant group may be so well entrenched that it is unaware of any potential challenge , Lukes points to the importance of socially and culturally patterned behaviour , to ways of acting and thinking which are taken for granted and which are rarely exposed to serious challenge . |
| 22 | And patients feel confused and angry at the differences between hospitals , unsure whether they are enduring isolation unnecesarily or being exposed to undue risk . |
| 23 | Exposed to elderly people who are in a state of acute or chronic physical illness , mental incapacity and increasing dependence , it is not surprising that nurses believe all elderly people experience the same decline . ’ |
| 24 | They found that children of men who had been exposed to external penetrating ionising radiation before their child was conceived were at an increased risk of leukaemia . |
| 25 | Ursula 's bad back was religiously exposed to unmanageable African horses and jolting lorry rides . |
| 26 | A final point is that , experimentally , L3 of some strains of A. caninum exposed to chilling before oral administration have been shown to remain in arrested development in the intestinal mucosa for weeks or months . |
| 27 | Now that much of American industry is exposed to international competition , barriers against foreigners in the transport business also look odd . |
| 28 | The award of the Nobel prize to Rigoberta Menchu means that Guatemala is exposed to international scrutiny in a way it has never been exposed before . |
| 29 | In these conditions the weaknesses of British industry were rawly exposed to international competition . |
| 30 | Unpredictable and volatile exchange rates are an incentive for resources to be shifted towards the non-traded goods sector which is not exposed to international competition and is largely unaffected by sizeable and unanticipated exchange rate changes . |