Example sentences of "be subjected to the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Something remained out there which had not been subjected to the same refining fire . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Any applied stress is now shared between the elements and each is subjected to the same deformation . |
| 11 | And she was subjected to the same technique Courtney used to ensnare women he assaulted after offering them drugged wine . |