Example sentences of "be subjected to [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In cases where the terms are likely to be subjected to such scrutiny , they must therefore be sufficiently balanced to be acceptable to the client 's trading partners .
2 I was angry that humans should be subjected to such degradation and I realised just how lucky I had been so far .
3 For that matter , I find it sad that Arbroath smokies , the most delicate , expensive and rare of all the smoked haddock tribe , should be subjected to such treatment .
4 the service requested is intended to confer on the tribunal making the request jurisdiction over a person who by the law of the State of execution can not be subjected to such jurisdiction .
5 No member should be subjected to that sort of attack .
6 There was , of course , now a great deal more interest in Eliot than in the play , but he had stipulated in advance that he was not to be subjected to any form of publicity : no press conferences , no interviews , no speeches ; as a result , he was much more relaxed at the first night and was even able to laugh at his own jokes .
7 It can , however , at least be subjected to some measure of democratic control , as it is in West Germany .
8 This brief résumé of methods of allocation omits an important area which is rarely controlled through financial allocation , yet which certainly needs to be subjected to some form of central control .
9 The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one .
10 People do say — ‘ Oh , it is all right Teresa is tough she can take it ’ — but no woman should be subjected to this treatment .
11 No one should be subjected to this sort of ordeal , especially in their own home .
12 We should not consider the need for early detection of localised prostatic cancer until its treatment has been subjected to such assessment .
13 Lydia , who had quite often been subjected to this experience , twigged at once .
14 As I indicated in the preceding chapter , innovative approaches to language teaching that have been recommended in the past have not , generally speaking , been subjected to this kind of pragmatic treatment .
15 She reckons that more than 70% of schoolgirls are subjected to some form of sexual harassment by their male teachers , and that a significant number are physically exploited or even raped .
16 Children who made a successful adjustment and settled in happily with a foster family were devastated when they were subjected to another round of upheaval and insecurity .
17 Few complete bodies were subjected to this treatment as it was a time-consuming and expensive exercise .
18 All the local authorities were being subjected to this dictation from departments in London , and a centralised bureaucracy stood for extravagance . ’
19 A strengthening of sterling and the lira in particular would reduce the risk of the EMS being subjected to another round of competitive devaluation .
20 Judicial review of the exercise of discretionary powers by administrative bodies has been self-consciously based on the need to ensure that the intention of the legislature is implemented and that discretionary power is subjected to some sort of control in the name of the Rule of Law .
21 In the Council Hall the new draft was subjected to such criticism that it was returned to the Commission to be revised into its earlier form .
22 In Parliament and outside , the distinction between capital and non-capital murders was subjected to much criticism .
23 But Clifford Barnett , the head of the anthropology department which voted in closed session last week to expel Mosher from his PhD candidature , denies that the department was subjected to any pressure .
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