Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been subject to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an electronic medium using the airwaves , TV has necessarily been subject to governmental and inter-governmental controls on the frequencies that may be used and the coverage allowed to each transmitter . |
| 2 | The survival of the historical record has always been subject to natural and man-made forces . |
| 3 | Owner-occupancy has probably been subject to less direct legislative activity than have the two other main tenures . |
| 4 | The notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |
| 5 | This approach has recently been subject to an effective critique by Forty ( 1986 ) , who points out that designers have always been handmaidens to the business interests they serve , and to separate them out as self-determined arbiters of cultural form is even less convincing than in the case of high art which strives for such autonomy . |
| 6 | However , as we have seen , central government , who through the SEC has boldly pressed on with the introduction of the GCSE , has even in doing so been subject to its own and its advisers ' demands that Standards should be preserved . |
| 7 | The open fields themselves had always been subject to piecemeal enclosure , even as early as the fourteenth century . |
| 8 | He had recently taken over this region , which had previously been subject to the Ptolemies in Egypt . |
| 9 | By means of the co-operatives patients who had previously been subject to institutional peonage — payment of token wages in exchange for hospital work — have been able to earn wages comparable with those in the wider economy . |
| 10 | The ancient duchy of Gascony , united with Aquitaine in the later eleventh century , had never been subject to the French crown . |
| 11 | It was argued that such covenants are often contained in conveyances , leases and mortgages , and that they had never been subject to the doctrine of restraint of trade and consequently the test of reasonableness . |
| 12 | The volcanic rocks of the island of Madeira ( tufas and volcanic ashes interbedded with basaltic lavas ) have long been subject to the effects of rain and rivers . |
| 13 | Departments in Fife , Aberdeen , Strathclyde , Shetland and Dumfries and Galloway have all been subject to criticism and controversy regarding their handling of child care and protection during and since the late 1980s . |
| 14 | Parts of Maida Vale and Bayswater have already been subject to controls . |
| 15 | Keith Joseph and Kenneth Baker , though I believe they are genuinely anxious to improve the lot of all children at school , have nevertheless been subject to pressure from the most inflexibly conservative thinkers . |
| 16 | Especially in secondary schools , teachers have always been subject to the constraints of this system , based on what their pupils need in the way of qualifications , as well as the more general considerations of what their pupils ought to know . |
| 17 | Teachers supporting their local community 's campaigns have also been subject to death threats . |
| 18 | Administrative systems have also been subject to an extensive review . |