Example sentences of "be [adv] subject to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The slowest-evolving molecules , like histones , turn out to be the ones that have been most subject to natural selection . |
| 2 | The effective resistance of rocks varies with the changing dominance of the agents of weathering : limestones may be more resistant in deserts than in humid regions as they are less subject to chemical weathering there . |
| 3 | Within each block , the four treatments are allocated to plots at random so that we might have : For this layout , the treatment comparisons within a block are less subject to unwanted external variation ( both suspected and unknown ) . |
| 4 | Sulphates are less subject to dry deposition than sulphur dioxide and consequently remain in the atmosphere for days , travelling up to several thousand kilometres in favourable meteorological and synoptic conditions . |
| 5 | They were spoken in those parts of the country that had been massively subject to Scandinavian settlement in the late OE period , and they were subsequently used in areas where the elite language became Norman French . |
| 6 | The other factor is that the margin between lending and borrowing rates is narrower on this market than on the home market , primarily because banks can operate at lower cost when all business is wholesale and when they are not subject to reserve requirements . |
| 7 | Epicurus did , indeed , place supreme value on ‘ pleasure ’ ; but he thought of this as the calm tranquillity and freedom from anxiety which would be achieved by realizing that there is no life after death , and that we are not subject to outside divine influences . |
| 8 | The enforcement of these different forms of accountability may not be easy , and voluntary organisations are not subject to direct accountability to the electorate , as are local authorities . |
| 9 | Because constituency boundaries are fixed on the basis of figures produced by the Registrars General , these officers are not subject to ministerial control and their publications are more likely to be free of such problems . |
| 10 | The LEA might usefully provide similar kinds of expertise in other services which are not subject to competitive tender . |
| 11 | Consumers are not free to express their real preferences and suppliers are not subject to competitive tests of efficiency and quality . |
| 12 | But the fact that corporate activities are not subject to high levels of surveillance compared to , say , lower-class adolescents whenever the ‘ Special Patrol Group ’ ( UK ) swoop down on ethnically mixed neighbourhoods , and that they are not confronted by regulatory agencies with sufficient resources to maintain an adequate level of surveillance through frequent inspection , also constitutes a greater opportunity structure conducive to corporate crime . |
| 13 | The emergence of these rules out of a common law which denies their existence has the added consequence , attractive to those who make them , that they are not subject to parliamentary or to adequate judicial control . |
| 14 | They are not subject to Parliamentary scrutiny . |
| 15 | It is very important indeed to ensure that the staff of G C H Q are not subject to potential conflicts of interest and as I said earlier the Prime Minister and I listened for some considerable time to the s to er to the points put forward by the trade unions to see whether or not that overriding er national objective could be maintained but we were not convinced , we were not convinced that erm the trade unions could overcome those potential conflicts of interest and it behoves ill the party opposite to try and put a different gloss on the fact that we in this country thanks to our legislation , have put harmony in place of strife and we are not prepared to allow the opposition to put that major achievement at risk . |
| 16 | Department head Roger Manley , said : ‘ Today 's lightweight buggies offer many benefits for ease and convenience- but they 're often subject to hard wear and tear . ’ |
| 17 | As printing presses are always subject to slight variations this prevents halos of colour showing around an area if the press gets slightly out of alignment . |
| 18 | Business cycles Buying patterns within industrial goods markets are usually subject to upward or downward fluctuations caused by cyclical market behaviour . |
| 19 | Since royalties are usually subject to withholding taxes , and payments to related parties in tax havens are generally suspect , the normal structure for most of the 1980s was to use a Dutch company which would hold a head licence from a Netherlands Antilles company holding the intangible , and which would then sublicense the operating companies . |
| 20 | Reservations made through travel agents , tour operators or certain companies are usually subject to special rates and commissions . |
| 21 | ‘ Maybe women are more subject to hormonal changes than men . |
| 22 | It already makes black and white displays in the US , but demand for notebook personal computers with colour displays is growing , and Sharp says it would rather make these locally than export them from Japan , where they are still subject to perverse US anti-dumping duties . |
| 23 | Although in some cases enterprises have tried to develop realistic ‘ performative ’ plans ( Wernham 1985 : 633 ) , their incentives to do so are limited by the fact that plans are still subject to external political appraisal which may alter their content and assumptions and thus undermine managerial commitment . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that the five polytechnics under the control of the ILEAPCL , North London Polytechnic , Polytechnic of the South Bank , City of London Polytechnic , and Thames Polytechnic enjoy corporate status , they are still subject to detailed financial regulation by the ILEA , a situation which PCL has certainly found petty and restrictive . |
| 25 | While this argument holds true in an ideal world users are often subject to other considerations such as previously installed hardware , purchasing restrictions and a million and one other trivia of which that perennial bugbear ‘ compatibility ’ is possibly the most emotive . |
| 26 | ‘ They are not in the same cells , but they come together in the trucks going to court and in the exercise yard where they are often subject to physical and sexual abuse , ’ he said . |
| 27 | All fixed date actions to which the rule does apply are now subject to automatic directions ( see Chapter 11 ) and are not given a return day at the outset . |
| 28 | A wide range of exclusion clauses which may be included in standard terms of trading are now subject to statutory regulation . |
| 29 | Both types of cancer are now subject to national screening programmes as early detection may prevent these cancers being fatal . |
| 30 | In custodial terms , even a successful simulation exercise does no more than transfer the operational persona of an historic early machine to a currently supportable platform ( typically a 486-based PC ) which will itself be duly subject to generational obsolescence : the potential of the technique lies not in the immortality of current hardware but in the prospect of machine-independent software . |