Example sentences of "had [be] subject to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There was at an early stage evidence that D. had been subjected to violent injury .
2 the head of the operation in central Bosnia said the Moslems had been subjected to blatant human rights abuses and the U N might soon have to evacuate them .
3 The ‘ Illustrious ’ had been subjected to vicious bombing only a short time previously , and the defending fighters had been battered by swarms of Me109s and Macchis .
4 The fort had been subjected to ceaseless bombardment from the start of the German offensive and had been almost flattened , bottom .
5 In 1829 and 1830 the river Ray , which had been subjected to massive engineering works in order to drain the newly enclosed moor , began to flood the land beyond Otmoor .
6 Later on Feb. 2 Babic again rejected the peace plan , stating the following day that the participants at the meetings had been subjected to heavy pressure and physical assault from Serbian leaders and that Paspalj had been coerced into signing .
7 Despite the occasional call for a militant renewal of the Leavisian enterprise , by 1970 every one of its fundamental ideological props had been subjected to considerable strain .
8 It was known , for instance , that ‘ many thousands ’ of party and non-party members had been subjected to mass repression during the Stalin period ; this was the truth of the matter , and there was no escaping it .
9 All had been strangled , and according to Christie all except his wife had been subjected to sexual assault at or just after the time of death .
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