Example sentences of "subjected to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since his ship approached this world — the Sense-Sphere — Maitland 's crew have been subjected to telepathic assault , a process which has sent the vessel 's mineralogist quite mad .
2 After a reprecipitation step , the pellets are rinsed twice with 80% ethanol to wash trapped traces of reagents , vacuum-dried , and subjected to standard cleavage reaction by heating in either piperidine ( strand scission at the level of guanine residues ) or NaOH ( strand scission at the level of adenine and guanine residues ) ( 1 , 5 ) .
3 If after times t 1 , t 2 , t 3 , … the system is subjected to additional stresses σ 1 , σ 2 , σ 3 , … then the principle states that the creep response of the system can be predicted simply by summing the individual responses from each stress increment .
4 It would also enable sentencing practice to be monitored and subjected to regular review .
5 Yet both professional footballers and cricketers were subjected to unreasonable restrictions and working practices .
6 The other person does not want the relationship to end , although this can be the outcome , but perhaps feels subjected to unreasonable demands or expectations , or is struggling with guilt or frustration , or feels neglected and unwanted .
7 Theories and information appear not to have been subjected to prior sorting and tumble forth from the pages , while the opinions of the authors remain submerged .
8 The majority of alleged perpetrators , however , were not subjected to criminal proceedings due largely to insufficient evidence and denial of the allegation .
9 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 .
10 Many travellers are subjected to acute discrimination and harassment .
11 The advocacy and proof of the feasibility of more creative , composition based practices in music furnished by the Music in the Secondary School Curriculum which led to the inclusion of composition in the GCSE music criteria ( DES , 1985a ) has also been subjected to adverse correspondence similar to that of the language development example above .
12 Taking it seriously he was accepted on a degree course in Photography at Nottingham but soon found the kind of dogmatic regimentation which he was subjected to counter-productive .
13 Taking it seriously he was accepted at Nottingham but soon found the kind of dogmatic regimentation which he was subjected to counter-productive .
14 First , it provides safeguards for detained persons and provides for their proper treatment with the object of ensuring that they are not subjected to undue pressure or oppression .
15 ( iv ) If the creditor is aware , or ought to have been aware , that the surety has been subjected to undue influence by the debtor , it would be unlikely to be sufficient if the creditor merely took steps to ensure that the surety understood the nature of the liability he or she was accepting .
16 A slave might not be ill-treated or subjected to undue hardship .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 People were put into categories — high Nazis , low Nazis — and subjected to endless cross-examination .
20 Positive form can be introduced into any polygon or polyhedron by regarding it as a closed skin subjected to internal expansion .
21 If a thin tube of length l , radius r and wall thickness h is closed at both ends and subjected to internal pressure P , the extension z due to the pressure is given by Kz = prl/6h , where K is the bulk modulus .
22 Molecular weight standards are shown to the left ( B ) Duplicate crude nuclear extracts from UF9 cells were subjected to Far Western blotting using 32 P-labelled ATF1 ( lanes 1 and 2 ) or 32 P-labelled CREB ( lanes 3 and 4 ) as a probe .
23 Since then hundreds of observers have produced thousands of observations and scores of theories ; but it was not until the 1970s , when the Loch Ness and Morar Project formally began work , that the loch itself was subjected to thorough and systematic study .
24 At the Correspondent , the sports desk was placed in a windowless alcove , barricaded in by knitting copy-takers , and subjected to terrifying experiments with an air-conditioning unit .
25 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 .
26 This has been subjected to critical scrutiny by Allan ( 1986 ) .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 So since 1983 there has been a possibility that any estimate may be subjected to critical review by the House of Commons .
30 The Deputy Governor of Kordofan state in central Sudan , Umar Sulayman Adam , on March 12 denied allegations that the Nuba people of the Nuba mountains in his state were being subjected to official repression .
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