be subject to

Example Sentences

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Although Devine declared the Epstein furore to be “overblown” in July, she nonetheless felt the subject to be sufficiently worthy of coverage more than two months later as to warrant confronting the commerce secretary about it in an interview.

From Salon

I am not sure why Goldstein feels passionately enough about the subject to be this bootlickingly wrong about it in public.

From Slate

As reported by The Associated Press, the newsletter that first broke the story, Status, and the New York Times both cited unnamed sources who identified the reporting subject to be Kennedy, who dropped out of the presidential race in August.

From Salon

The filmmaker expected his subject to be angry.

From Los Angeles Times

Washington insisted that “any property obviously belonging to the inhabitants of these States, in the possession of the garrison, shall be subject to be reclaimed.”

From Literature