Sentence examples for were subjecting from inspiring English sources
noun
In a clause: the word or word group (usually a noun phrase) that is dealt with. In active clauses with verbs denoting an action, the subject and the actor are usually the same.
- In the sentence ‘The mouse is eaten by the cat in the kitchen.’, ‘The mouse’ is the subject, ‘the cat’ being the agent.
Com-pliance officers were subjecting him to ever more pointed questions about his daily trading.
Within minutes of the announcement, reporters were subjecting the deal to withering critique.
Even as they were subjecting passersby to especially stringent document checks, Moscow's normally tough police had special instructions for a softly-softly approach.
It is as if he were subjecting his classical dancer's body to chaos-theory.In the 1980s and 1990s, Mr Forsythe and Ballett Frankfurt divided the dance world.
Asked why they were subjecting loyalists to an hourlong replay of their candidate's studiously passionate denunciations and his opponent's meandering responses, the campaign spokeswoman, Sherry Sylvester said, "Corzine won't agree to many debates, so we figured we'd just show this one as many times as possible".
Felda was accused of human rights violations on its plantations last year by the Wall Street Journal, which reported claims – denied by the company – that contractors it was using were subjecting workers to abusive conditions such as confiscating passports, withholding wages and denying them protective equipment on Felda's plantations.
The patients were subjected to constant beating.
Those not executed were subjected to torture.
However, the lyrics were subjected to criticism.
Cells were subjected to the different treatments.
Representative antigenic clones were subjected to FCM.
