[Neillythere]

Hi Vil

Originally Posted by vil

Dear teachers,
We offer you, subject to your acceptance by cable, 1000 tons of ore.
We accept your prices subject to your General Conditions of Delivery.
This offer is subject to confirmation.
This offer is made subject to the goods being unsold on receipt of your reply.
This offer is made subject to prior sale.
This tender offer is subject to wtitten or cabled confirmation on receipt of order.
All deliveries are subject to strikes, lockouts, accidents and other unforseen contingencies.
The contract is subject to six months’ notice on either side.
We accept your prices subject to contract terms.
V.

I agree with Anglica, but would add that all the last batch of sentences could be rephrased with "subject to" following the verb "to be", as some of them are, already, with no change to the original meaning, e.g.:

Our offer of 1000 tons of ore is subject to your acceptance by cable.
Our acceptance of your prices is subject to your General Conditions of Delivery.
This offer is subject to the goods being unsold on receipt of your reply.
This offer is subject to prior sale.
Our acceptance of your prices is subject to [agreement on] contract terms.

Hope this clarifies

Regards

NT

PS My good old friend Oxford may also help (or perhaps confuse, as "subject to" can be used either as a noun, adjective, adverb or verb!):

AskOxford: subject

subject:

• noun /subjikt/ (not "subject to")
1 a person or thing that is being discussed, studied, or dealt with.
2 a branch of knowledge studied or taught.
3 Grammar the word or words in a sentence that name who or what performs the action of the verb.
4 a member of a state owing allegiance to its monarch or supreme ruler.
5 Music a theme, leading phrase, or motif.
6 Philosophy a thinking or feeling entity; the conscious mind or ego.

• adjective /subjikt/ (subject to)
1 likely or prone to be affected by (something bad).
2 dependent or conditional upon.
3 under the control or authority of.

• adverb /subjikt/ (subject to) conditionally upon.

• verb /sbjekt/ (usu. subject to)
1 cause to undergo.
2 bring under one’s control or jurisdiction.

Also note the change of stressing from the 1st to the last syllable with the verb.

All I can say after that is: