Example sentences of "be subjected to the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though golf should be subjected to the same criteria as other sports , and a bit of enthusiastic reaction is part of that , it must retain its decorum if its special flavour and reputation for sportsmanship under duress is not to be undermined . |
| 2 | In certain areas of Britain there is also a ‘ tradition ’ of digging out badgers , so that they may be subjected to the same merciless treatment that is meted out to the fox . |
| 3 | Relations had deteriorated in September following reports of a speech on Sept. 11 by the US ambassador , Robert Oakley , to the Asia Society in Washington , in which Oakley had suggested that governments between 1985 and 1988 be subjected to the same process of " accountability " as that applied to members of Benazir Bhutto 's 1988-90 government . |
| 4 | The Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ) , a leading US pressure group , is calling for all genetically-modified foods to be subjected to the same safety tests currently required for chemical food additives — the strictest under Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) rules . |
| 5 | Of course , it is more complex than that because allowance has to be made for convergent evolution , which is the acquisition of common characteristics by virtue of having been subjected to the same selection pressures , rather than because of sharing a common ancestor . |
| 6 | And was it any wonder she 'd fled , if she 'd been subjected to the same bullying and threats by an earlier generation of de Rocheforts ? |
| 7 | Something remained out there which had not been subjected to the same refining fire . |
| 8 | From this it is possible to infer not only that the Ørslev carbonates were deposited as a patch reef like Aabenraa , but also that they were subjected to the same diagenesis and that this resulted in the development of comparable pore types . |
| 9 | It was only when lapidaries had discovered how to release the fire of diamonds by cutting them at angles devised to admit and reflect the maximum amount of light that the coloured varieties of transparent stones were subjected to the same treatment . |
| 10 | Inside the shrine wall-paintings showed the young king of Meroë with his feet resting on lines of bound prisoners ( one of them possibly a Roman legionary ) who were being subjected to the same indignity . |
| 11 | Black sportsmen are drawn from the ranks of black working-class youth and these generally grow up under similar conditions , being subjected to the same kind of pressures or lack of them . |
| 12 | The man who has an emission of semen ( other than the ejaculation into the woman 's vagina ) is subjected to the same laws of purification as the menstruating woman ( Lev . |
| 13 | The sample temperature is then monitored by means of a thermocouple and compared with the temperature of an inert reference such as powdered alumina , or simply an empty sample pan , which is subjected to the same linear heating programme . |
| 14 | Any applied stress is now shared between the elements and each is subjected to the same deformation . |
| 15 | And she was subjected to the same technique Courtney used to ensnare women he assaulted after offering them drugged wine . |