Example sentences of "have been subject [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not saying she has been subject to a temptation to exaggerate , but I merely remind you of those matters which can exist in relation to a woman 's evidence . ’ |
| 2 | Since the directive came into force in July last year only one fish farming application has been subject to an environmental assessment : a plan last October by Marine Harvest for salmon cages in Lamlash bay on the island of Arran . |
| 3 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 4 | And yet in this area , too , Karajan has been subject to rebarbative questioning and criticism , not least on the grounds that an interest in technology is somehow incompatible with a man 's credibility as a performing musician . |
| 5 | In Cuba , the former has been emphasised with marked success , while economic growth has been subject to fluctuations . |
| 6 | This effect , sometimes referred to as ‘ encoding specificity ’ ( e.g. Tulving and Thomson 1973 ; Tulving 1983 ) has been subject to a range of interpretations but what concerns us here is the general possibility that contextual factors might determine test performance by modulating the ease with which stored information is retrieved . |
| 7 | Redundancies have by no means been restricted to those nearing the end of their careers or whose job performance has been subject to criticism . |
| 8 | A similar long bridge crosses the Taw at Barnstaple , but this is neither as long nor as irregular as the Bideford bridge , and has been subject to more extensive alteration . |
| 9 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 10 | The area has been subject to Cimmerian rift-faulting but has suffered additional severe inversion and wrench-related movements associated with the edge of the Broad Fourteens Basin . |
| 11 | The IT industry has been subject to rapid development in recent years and it is confidently expected that this trend will continue . |
| 12 | Over the past 2 years it has been subject to extensive repairs and its site to archaeological investigation . |
| 13 | The product has been subject to rigorous quality control . ’ |
| 14 | The first particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the reliance on possible first use of nuclear weapons as a means of countering presumed superior Soviet conventional power — a reliance which McNamara sought for a while to abandon when Secretary of Defense in the early 1960s , and which he openly challenged in a famous recent article ( Bundy et al . , |
| 15 | The second particular strategy which has been subject to criticism has been the targeting of cities and other locations not of a strictly military character . |
| 16 | The BVI economy is based primarily on tourism and has been subject to significant expansion . |
| 17 | For a long time reading has been subject to a variety of fads and fashions . |
| 18 | Britain has been subject to the same decline in long-stay beds and has responded in the same way as other European countries to this fall in the mental hospital population . |
| 19 | The magnitude of Reagan 's achievement in his first term has been subject to question on several grounds . |
| 20 | This can be appreciated by considering how , in different countries and at different times , the provision of health care , housing , education and other ‘ essential ’ services such as electricity and transport , has been subject to varying degrees of public ownership and control . |
| 21 | Although the Museum has put on a large number of successful temporary exhibitions , the display of its permanent collection has been subject to difficulties and delays . |
| 22 | This new exhibition area is the first stage of the Nuovi Uffizi complex , which has been subject to delays even though the funds have long been available . |
| 23 | This so-called ‘ hidden curriculum ’ is claimed by many feminists to be at least as important in child development as the formal curriculum ( see , for example , Byrne , 1978 ) , and has been subject to intensive study ( e.g. Spender and Sarah , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | So it has been subject to recent rigorous scrutiny by a series of government reports : the Audit Commission ( 1986 ) , the House of Commons Social Services Committee Report ( 1985 ) and the Griffiths Report ( 1986 ) which resulted in the 1989 White paper Caring for People . |
| 25 | Such remarks , along with the usual party-political imperatives , mean that she has been subject to reflex ridicule for being out of step . |
| 26 | Since the 1960s in England , football spectatorship has been subject to increasingly stringent surveillance from the football authorities , law and the police . |
| 27 | As a result of challenges to the previous practice , both in the High Court and the European Court of Human Rights , telephone tapping has been subject to legislation since 1986 . |
| 28 | Public transport has been subject to numerous policy changes , especially since the 1960s ( Banister 1983 ) . |
| 29 | Secondly , many of the ideas presented so far derive from a particular perspective in sociology which has been subject to the criticisms noted above . |
| 30 | In discussing the extent to which sentencing discretion in England and Wales has been subject to control in the past , or is likely to be in the future , we will adopt the threefold classification elaborated by K.C. Davis ( 1969 ) : viz. confining discretion ( or restricting the scope of discretionary power that is available ) ; structuring discretion ( or regulating its exercise in advance ) ; and checking discretion ( or reviewing the way it has been exercised in the past ) . |