Example sentences of "be [adv] subject to " 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 | Blumer and Hauser maintained that ‘ the influence of motion pictures seems to be proportionate to the weakness of the family , school , church and neighbourhood ’ and that ‘ persons living in high-rate delinquency areas are most subject to influence by the themes of life treated by motion pictures ’ . |
| 3 | But while all topics are necessarily subject to identity , clearly not all topics qualify as possible existents , and only a miniscule proportion of possible topics actually exist , and herein lies our problem . |
| 4 | Such items are obviously subject to wear and require periodic replacement . |
| 5 | Estimates of the job-displacing effects of robots are highly subject to movements in the capital cost of that equipment and in local labour costs . |
| 6 | In many ways , it is easier for smaller men to keep fit ; they are less subject to variations in weight and musculature . |
| 7 | This might be explained by the fact that the former category are not the direct employees of the establishment and that their terms and conditions of employment are less subject to regulation by unions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although the data are not directly comparable with those in previously published analyses , they are nevertheless subject to the major criticism of the studies discussed in the Black report — namely , that the results were vitiated by biased selection of diagnostic groups , age groups , calendar periods , and areas . |
| 13 | But now through the light of Mohammed , I am not subject to this city ( the world ) that is passing away . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's well known of me that I am not subject to shame . |
| 15 | A survey by the US Department of Labor revealed that about a fifth of private-sector workers , mainly employees of large corporations , are already subject to testing . |
| 16 | According to a DCDA telephone survey four places in Stockton are said to be very rarely vacant and 21 on North Tyneside , due to be ready from April , are already subject to a long waiting list . |
| 17 | This has meant that legally-held guns and those applying to hold them are already subject to very tight controls . ’ |
| 18 | We can at least be thankful that microbes are not subject to such corruptions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It is true that , by contrast with those that constitute ‘ imaginary things ’ , the ideas that constitute ‘ real things ’ are , for Berkeley , independent of the human mind : they are not subject to the voluntary control of the mind that perceives them . |
| 21 | Pains are not subject to our will , we do not choose to feel them , but this does not lead us to say that they have an existence independent of our experience of them . |
| 22 | Something more of the requisite independence could be achieved by Berkeley 's doctrine that ideas which are not subject to our own will are produced in us by God : the independence of a real thing , its having some continuity despite interrupted perception of it , could be explained in terms of a continued readiness on God 's part to excite the requisite ideas in us at suitable moments . |
| 23 | Also , organic eyes are not subject to the same design constraints as are cameras : fish eyes have lenses made of material whose refractive index varies continuously from the centre to the outside . |
| 24 | At present unscrupulous operators — bureaux de change are not subject to Government licensing — attempt to attract unwitting customers by promising an apparently reasonable rate of exchange . |
| 25 | There are all kinds of different questions we can ask about the life habits of these trilobites , which are not subject to the same kind of careful scrutiny . |
| 26 | People who are not subject to the authority of the law may then obey the rules for prudential reasons , or because even though they have no duty to obey , disobedience will do more harm than good . |
| 27 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 28 | It does so through the authority it exercises over government officials , and because the population at large is willing to see morality enforced , even in matters in which they are not subject to the authority of the government . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Those of the gods who are not subject to destruction , having observed the course of one period , know from this everything which is going to happen in all subsequent periods . |