Example sentences of "be subjected to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is no joke , I assure you , to be subjected to the impertinent questioning of those who have come to your public meeting neither for enlightenment nor even good fellowship but to make the candidate appear a proper Charlie . |
| 2 | To be governed is to be subjected to the regular pressure of an authority operating according to fixed rules . |
| 3 | Although fine material may be transported far out to sea in suspension , much of the coarser debris eroded from the cliffs or brought to the coast by the rivers accumulates on the beach , where it may be subjected to the constructive action of waves . |
| 4 | The elderly heart and spine should never be subjected to the tremendous effort required to move heavy furniture and equipment in order to clean under and behind them . |
| 5 | In a statement on April 22 designed to convince a visiting fact-finding mission from the Organization of American States ( OAS ) [ see below ] of his democratic intent , he promised to submit his decision to a plebiscite on July 5 , and pledged that proposed constitutional reforms would also be subjected to the popular vote on Aug. 31 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For her to be subjected to the whimsical will of a clown ! |
| 9 | Unopposed Private Bills do not need to be subjected to the quasi-judicial type of proceeding apt in the case of opposed bills . |
| 10 | A wall had to be demolished , and patients on these wards could not be subjected to the unavoidable dust and noise which would result . |
| 11 | Since it would have been unlikely that many property offenders would have been able to pay the fines that he advocated , they would mostly have been subjected to the forced labour that he proposed as the alternative . |
| 12 | It also implies that the over-ridden rocks may not have been subjected to the excessive burial or the degree of disturbance once assumed . |
| 13 | Something remained out there which had not been subjected to the same refining fire . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | It is me , after all , who has been subjected to the direct marketing of my very soul . |
| 17 | The skin , he noted , was still tinged golden — that faint tone which signified to those in the know that he had been subjected to the bi-annual treatment of Longivex , the Imperial longevity drug which , because of the rarity of the poppy from which it was produced , was restricted to the élite , the favoured few such as the royal family , the privileged , the very rich — and he frowned as he wondered how long it would be before the absence of the drug showed in his physique and appearance . |
| 18 | Law and conscience are subjected to the perverse dynamic , being made to enable and intensify the rebellion they were supposed to prevent ; likewise with Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic in the realm of desire and culture . |
| 19 | In order to bring about this desired acceleration , samples are subjected to the following test conditions . |
| 20 | Yet it is noticeable that Italy 's most successful industries are those which are subjected to the greatest degree of competition domestically , such as the tile and ceramic producers , or the clothing business . |
| 21 | We demonstrated this statistically ( J. Milroy and Harris , 1980 ) : the data in table 5.5 , were subjected to the chi-squared test , and the difference between the distributions of meat items and mate items was found to be very highly significant . |
| 22 | First a questionnaire was distributed to all adults in China , and all those who had suspicious symptoms were subjected to the second procedure , which was a new simple blood-test that could be performed on farms or in factories , and gave an answer in twenty minutes . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Both saints were subjected to the elaborate canonisation procedure before their names were added to the roll up yonder , and down yonder in the Vatican . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best . |
| 29 | In the classic experimental design a control group would be used which was as alike in all respects to the experimental group ( the latter being , in this example , the workers who experienced the new managerial style ) , save in this one respect ; only the experimental group is subjected to the independent variable . |
| 30 | It is important to check that no seat is subjected to the full force of an air-conditioning outlet , and to ensure that no guests are distracted by waiter activity at an adjacent service station or kitchen door . |