Example sentences of "subject [pers pn] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has a weasel face and subjects me to piercing scrutiny . |
| 2 | If anything the gulf separating them from an outside world which uprooted families and whole villages for labour on distant farms , or worse still in factories and mines , which extracted taxes , recruits and grain , which subjected them to constant brutality and humiliation grew steadily wider . |
| 3 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 4 | Elsa departed because she could n't take Fagg 's oft-repeated loud muttering of ‘ Swiss maybe , but Swiss-Kraut certainly ’ ; two male Chinese took umbrage when he denounced them as Nips ; an observing Hindu became revolted when Mauleverer , an occasional resident , subjected him to intense cross-questioning about whether the liver was from a Dutch calf and was being served sufficiently rare ; and a delicious-looking Filipino , who strayed too close to Fishbane at breakfast , received a pinch which made her hysterical . |
| 5 | Their working lives ( up to about fifteen hours ) can be maximised if you handle them with care , so avoid subjecting them to mechanical shocks when in use ; switch off and allow them to cool before moving them around on the set . |
| 6 | The liberal bourgeois ethic of the West is a force for alienation , ‘ bringing men and women into conflict with themselves and subjecting them to new forms of slavery while claiming to free them ’ . |
| 7 | As Evans-Pritchard explains , ‘ in every Zande household there is a fowlhouse , and fowls are kept mainly with the object of subjecting them to oracular tests . |
| 8 | Such transfers need to be undertaken with care to avoid damaging the fish or subjecting them to sudden temperature changes . |
| 9 | Evidence about the past role of women is mainly genealogical : people remembered some marriages because they sealed a peace ; others because they bound in a new group of refugees or clients , bringing them into the range of people who belonged to someone , subjecting them to social controls . |
| 10 | What is envisaged here is a ‘ pincer movement ’ for democratising the operations of large multidivisional enterprises and subjecting them to popular accountability . |
| 11 | These ‘ five techniques ’ ( requiring prisoners to wear hoods over their heads unless they were separated from other inmates or being interrogated , having them stand spreadeagled against a wall for up to 43 hours , depriving them of sleep , subjecting them to electronic noise and beating them ) were subsequently condemned as ‘ torture ’ by the European Rights Commission ( Hewitt , 1982:157–8 ) . |
| 12 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 13 | But that is another way of saying the ring can not be seen , measured , touched or heard by picking up the bell and sniffing it , weighing it and subjecting it to chemical analysis . |
| 14 | But why does this event persist in subjecting us to long rows of tap dancers , a breed of people whose only function in life is to display the disgusting effects of sweat and sequins under neon ? |
| 15 | The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision . |
| 16 | If he is unable to breathe spontaneously it would be cruel to subject him to positive pressure ventilation to prolong his life artificially . |
| 17 | The conclusive Senate vote was scheduled for Oct. 8 , but had to be delayed for seven days following revelation of new evidence from Anita Hill , 35 , a black University of Oklahoma teacher of law , who alleged that Thomas had subjected her to sexual harassment with explicit , pornographic suggestions when she worked for him at the Department of Education and the EEOC in the early 1980s . |
| 18 | It can be suggested that the fiduciary duties imposed on directors subject them to similar standards of review by the courts . |
| 19 | I mean , I might have had to shove the split match heads under Carol 's fingernails , or tie her to a tree and subject her to psychological warfare by , say , reading Hemingway aloud to her . |
| 20 | Given the current differing economic performance of Britain and West Germany , putting sterling in the exchange rate mechanism could well subject it to new strains . |