Example sentences of "[noun] was the subject " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade was the subject of a BBC television programme recently . |
| 2 | Stonehenge was the subject of unpleasant exchanges . |
| 3 | Soon after his arrival , Souness reversed the dominant trend of football transfers by bringing expensive English stars to play in Scotland and towards the end of 1988 , the club was the subject of an inspirational takeover bid which made Souness and his personal friend , the business man David Murray , the new owners of the club . |
| 4 | In the general election of Feb. 26 , 1988 , the government and the opposition each won 23 seats ; the remaining seat was the subject of numerous recounts . |
| 5 | In October/November 1989 , Orkney 's Social Work Department was the subject of another Social Work Services Group investigation . |
| 6 | Training recruits was the subject of this week 's episode . |
| 7 | Balbinder was the subject of a Statement and Elizabeth Grugeon charts the process from an initial expression of concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress by the primary school to his transfer to a special school for pupils categorised as having ‘ moderate learning difficulties ’ . |
| 8 | Medau Rhythmic Movement and Relaxation Therapy was the subject of a Talk and Demonstration given by Barbara Potticary before Bath branch members of the Back Pain Association . |
| 9 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 10 | Detective Constable Potter would have benefited from a similar facility in the office , but his bulk was the subject of severe official disapproval and there was a parallel concern for his health and fitness . |
| 11 | Dennis Wise was the subject of a ‘ fact-file ’ in a recent edition of Chelsea 's club newspaper . |
| 12 | As work continued to seal the reactor ( whose current condition was the subject of some alarming reports , despite the original claim that it had been " entombed " successfully in concrete by November 1986 — see p. 34749 ) , the Ukrainian Supreme Soviet passed a series of laws in early April which reduced the permissible radiation level , and , as a result , would lead to the evacuation of a further 73,000 people from the Chernobyl area , bringing the total moved since the accident to 250,000 . |
| 13 | From the start , chapels have been a constant source of concern to SAVE , and Northern chapel architecture was the subject of a special SAVE exhibition and report , The Fall of Zion . |
| 14 | Morrison South was the subject of our most disappointing decision of the year when it became apparent that our continuing effort to sell homes from a few geographically diverse sites in southern California into a very weak market was proving too expensive a strategy . |
| 15 | Southeast England was the subject for a monograph of monumental significance ( Wooldridge and Linton , 1939 ) and the sequence of landscape evolution deduced for this area came to have repercussions throughout subsequent research . |
| 16 | In their Doric orders the entasis was the subject of meticulous attention : in Burn 's Theseion orders he did not use entasis at all , although its absence is not noticeable . |
| 17 | Needless to say , the issue was the subject of regular battles across the floor of the Guildhall and in the Stormont House of Commons . |
| 18 | This issue was the subject of the previous chapter and will not be discussed here , except to identify the implications for management development . |
| 19 | Elisabeth Nietzsche was the subject of last week 's Timewatch ( Wednesday , BBC2 ) . |
| 20 | Once again pluralism was the subject of papal revision , but this time no conflict with the crown ensued . |
| 21 | The 19-year-old was the subject of a £50,000 bid by the Scottish club recently , but he said : ‘ I did n't fancy it . |
| 22 | Violence in sport was the subject of growing debate . |
| 23 | In 1987 , the SMG was the subject of a report by PC J. E. Black , the Ealing police intelligence officer . |
| 24 | Not surprisingly , effective kings worked well with their bishops , even when their morality was the subject of open criticism : weak kings are likely to have had very much less influence on their clergy , unless like Guntram they could command some ecclesiastical respect because of their piety . |
| 25 | On April 11 ( mid-way through Easter Passion week ) 150 orthodox Jewish settlers moved into the St John 's Hospice , a building situated in the Christian Quarter whose ownership was the subject of a dispute between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Ataret Cohanim yeshiva ( a Jewish religious seminary and one of the main settler groups ) , the latter having reportedly paid up to US$4,500,000 for the lease . |
| 26 | But that same summer thermo-nuclear war was the subject of a remarkable series of lectures being given at the Princeton Institute of Advanced Study by the futurologist , Herman Kahn , which showed how far human values had been changed during the years Fuchs had been in prison . |
| 27 | The Skein of Geese was the subject of Heather 's eighth photograph . |
| 28 | Their race at the Maze Meeting was the subject of a sporting print called ‘ The Dean and the Quaker ’ and the name was later adopted by a local tavern . |
| 29 | If the principle does exist that tax paid on a demand from the Crown when the tax was the subject of an ultra vires demand can be recovered as money had and received then , in my view , it is for the courts to declare it . |
| 30 | The direction the English novel was to take in the post-war era was the subject of much discussion in the late 1950s when Christine Brooke-Rose began her career as a novelist . |