Example sentences of "been subject to [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
2 | A pesticide which has long been thought to cause sickness and death in farm workers has been subjected to a partial ban following an agreement between the manufacturers and the US Environmental Protection Agency . |
3 | It was not easy , even for a German captain , to intervene at this stage , but once he had been subjected to a long discussion and much persuasion , he contacted the SS in Tabiano and managed to have us set free . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
6 | This rather rosy picture has been subjected to a great deal of criticism . |
7 | My task , after having been subjected to a six months ' course to learn Russian , was to supervise the packing up of the Wilhelmshaven dockyard , and arrange its shipment back to the Soviet Union as part reparation for the enormous damage that had been done to that country by Nazi Germany . |
8 | It should be said that , even at that time , the panel had been subjected to a mild cleaning operation , as shown by a still earlier photograph taken when the work was in pristine condition . |
9 | Following a meeting with Collor on Aug. 26 , the 27 state governors acknowledged the need for amendments but refused to endorse the changes as proposed until they had been subjected to a wider debate . |
10 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
11 | THE newly-installed figurine casting machine at Coalport 's Minerva factory has been subjected to a detailed study by an action improvement team . |
12 | ‘ Again , the ground upon which a contract is voidable for duress is the same as in the case of fraud , and is that , whether it springs from a fear or a belief , the party has been subjected to an improper motive for action . |
13 | ‘ Your lungs have been subjected to an intense diet of nightclub smoke and decorating fumes — you could do with some fresh air . |
14 | Had our patient been subjected to an exploratory laparotomy during the initial admission the diaphragmatic tear would have been diagnosed at that time . |
15 | The UK is currently experiencing considerable social unrest and the legal profession has been subjected to an unprecedented level of criticism and scrutiny . |
16 | It is a fact that since 1976 , when Jim Callaghan made his celebrated speech at Ruskin , the education system has been subjected to an unprecedented flow of Education Acts ( 1980 , 1981 , 1986 , 1988 ) , committees of inquiry ( Warnock , Taylor , Elton ) and curriculum documents from HMI , DES , ‘ think tanks ’ and academics . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | It also implies that the over-ridden rocks may not have been subjected to the excessive burial or the degree of disturbance once assumed . |
19 | Something remained out there which had not been subjected to the same refining fire . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 ? |
22 | It is me , after all , who has been subjected to the direct marketing of my very soul . |
23 | These measurements also make it clear that Mercury is a good deal more spherical than the Moon , perhaps because it has not been subjected to the tidal forces of a nearby planet . |
24 | Although the women prisoners have not been subjected to the brutal beatings and searches which have taken place in the men 's prisons , they have been taken to the National Police headquarters for interrogation under torture . |
25 | 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 . |