Example sentences of "have been subjected to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With letters still coming in , AI will be sending out information on other street children 's cases in Guatemala — many of Nahamán 's friends who witnessed the attack have been subjected to harassment from the police . |
| 2 | The report describes how in recent years hundreds of political activists or suspected activists , including prisoners of conscience , have been subjected to arbitrary arrest and torture and sentenced after unfair trials . |
| 3 | One end result has been an increase in the extent to which gays and lesbians have been subjected to physical violence , including murder and mutilation . |
| 4 | In general these rocks have been subjected to high grade metamorphism , have a variable grain size , and occur in north west-south east trending belts , although they have also been recognised as small discontinuous lenses , a few metres in length , intercalated with other gneissic rocks . |
| 5 | A glance at the list of institutions discarding books will show that the largest single category is teacher-training colleges , which have been subjected to more than their fair share of amalgamations and closures in recent years . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , these arrangements have been subjected to considerable criticism , although much of it is related to the high-rise building , difficulty of supervising children , industrialised building materials and the other , now familiar , complaints about such brutal townscapes . |
| 7 | Thus some streets have been subjected to partial redesign , wherein pavement and carriageway are kept separate on the whole , but crossing points are restructured as speed tables . |
| 8 | My family and I have been subjected to unprovoked stone-throwing and spitting by gangs of youths who I presume are from right wing groups . |
| 9 | These techniques may be the conscious application of ideas which have been subjected to previous appraisal and are therefore the realization of principles , or they may simply be a set of more or less formulaic activities sanctioned not by appraisal but by the approval of authority . |
| 10 | Contrary to what Tony Lumpkin believes , speaking for all those who have been subjected to the drudgery of learning it in school , grammar is not a constraining imposition but a liberating force : it frees us from a dependency on context and the limitations of a purely lexical categorization of reality . |
| 11 | Zimbabwe Geological investigations are continuing in the Archaean Midlands Greenstone Belt of Zimbabwe as part of an integrated exploration project in which appropriate methods of regional structural analysis are being introduced as a basis for formulating sound gold exploration strategies and identifying targets for follow-up by the commercial sector.By the end of the second year about 1700 square kilometres ( or 70% ) of the project area has been tectonically mapped at scales of 1:25 000 to 1:50 000 , and selected areas , including over 80 medium-to-small gold mines , have been subjected to detailed structural analysis at survey scales of 1:200 to 1:2500 . |
| 12 | Hundreds of generations of goats have been subjected to these ordeals each winter , and the best adapted animals have survived . |
| 13 | Children have been subjected to tests and investigations by doctors , psychologists and teachers with the aim of pinpointing the nature of the problem and in the hope that this might lead to specific programmes of teaching and intervention . |
| 14 | Thus infant mice have been subjected to electric-shock treatment and their emotionality assessed later on in comparison with non-shocked animals . |
| 15 | Psychoanalytic thinking has had a deep influence on psychiatry and psychology in the twentieth century , but this has been by no means decisive , and its increasingly fragmented theories have been subjected to continuous criticism . |
| 16 | Most women who arrive at the prison have been subjected to brutal torture and a prolonged stay in a secret prison , They arrive in a very weak condition from which many are unable to recover because of the inadequate food and health facilities , Two doctors visit the prison , but they are very negligent , in part , as one Prisoner explained , because their pay is always in arrears . |
| 17 | Ever since his ship approached this world — the Sense-Sphere — Maitland 's crew have been subjected to telepathic assault , a process which has sent the vessel 's mineralogist quite mad . |
| 18 | Traditional assumptions about the development of the pre-revolutionary economy have been subjected to detailed re-examination . |
| 19 | Until silver objects from archaeological sites have been subjected to more systematic metallurgical analysis one can hardly be sure when and where the metal began to be extracted from galena ores . |
| 20 | Since this news broke , I have been subjected to numerous snide remarks concerning my ability to spot a footballer when I see one . |
| 21 | These forms of strict liability have been retained by the Animals Act 1971 and , though they have been subjected to considerable modification , much of the old learning will continue to be relevant . |
| 22 | Consequently , RUC officers have been subjected to public degradation ceremonies , and there have been threats and physical attacks on themselves and their families , forcing some of them to relocate . |
| 23 | The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ . |
| 24 | He thought Iran had been too long governed by a " powerful and greedy minority " and the " the people have been subjected to foreign exploitation and monopoly . |
| 25 | Few areas have been subjected to uninterrupted denudation since then , but , as the earlier Tertiary climates were very different from the present ones , any surviving landforms could present difficulties to the investigator . |
| 26 | In extensional flow , however , provided the strain rate exceeds the relaxation rate , that is , the rate at which a chain attempts to re-coil itself in order to increase its entropy , full extension of a chain can occur and it is even possible to cause chain scission , as evidenced by molecular weight studies made on solutions which have been subjected to high extensional flows . |
| 27 | Thus in Europe , automobiles have been subjected to a good deal of standardization in matters concerning safety and pollution , but that has not precluded the car industry from providing a vast range of choice in terms of styling and performance . |
| 28 | ‘ Your lungs have been subjected to an intense diet of nightclub smoke and decorating fumes — you could do with some fresh air . |
| 29 | Rail users have been subjected to annual fare increases well above inflation for several years now , so it is quite justified for motorists to receive some of the same treatment . |