Example sentences of "have been the subject [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Why this word was specially chosen has been the subject of scholarly controversy ; the probable answer is that the Christian who died for Christ was believed to be uniquely united with his crucified Master , thereby linking the concept of witness with sacrificial dying ; but in martyrdom the cause is primary , the dying secondary . ) |
| 2 | The law as so stated has , I think , been so understood for most of this century , at least at the level of the Court of Appeal ; but it has been the subject of increasing criticism by academic lawyers , and has been departed from in significant respects in some Commonwealth countries , both by legislation and by judicial development of the law . |
| 3 | Erm local plan progress is is well advanced erm er in the national parks and that has been the subject of continued discussion erm between the county and its national park committee , the county planning committee and its national park committee . |
| 4 | It is hardly surprising that special procedures have been devised to make provision for claims of this size , and that the way in which the county court handles such claims has been the subject of close scrutiny and criticism , not least during the recent Civil Justice Review . |
| 5 | This provision has been the subject of wide-ranging criticism ( Norman , 1980 ; Greengross , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | The process which led to the entrenchment of serfdom in Russia — just when it was being undermined in the West — has been the subject of prolonged historiographical debate . |
| 7 | The meaning of ‘ obtained ’ in s.1(3) has been the subject of prolonged debate in the courts recently . |
| 8 | Whether the proposed scheme will deliver the net benefit claimed in terms of the quality and quantity of teacher supply has been the subject of extensive comment elsewhere and will not be repeated here . |
| 9 | Acquired by the Getty Museum in 1985 ( supposedly for a sum of nearly $9 million ) the statue has been the subject of extensive scientific tests and scholarly debate ever since . |
| 10 | Each of these regions has been the subject of extensive mutagenesis and biochemical experiments , from which it seems that the basic regions mediate DNA binding , and the HLH and zipper region promote dimerization ( see refs 4 and 5 ) . |
| 11 | European scheduled air travel has been the subject of extensive regulation by government agreement . |
| 12 | This has been the subject of endless commentary within the economics profession since these sorts of trends have typified nearly all industrial and service sectors of capitalist economies ( and some socialist ones , it might be added ) . |
| 13 | Although this is true of the appropriation accounts presented to Parliament in respect of the NHS as a whole , the way that the constituent health service bodies account for capital has been the subject of substantial change . |
| 14 | The question as to what is , or can be considered to be , productive and unproductive labour , and productive and unproductive consumption , has been the subject of hot debate , going back to Adam Smith and beyond . |
| 15 | Collaborative research with the University of London on exceptionally well-preserved conifers from volcaniclastic sediments in the Etruria Formation of Westphalian C age , has been the subject of external publications and has featured on BBC Radio 4 's Natural History Programme . |
| 16 | The status of a foetus in Scots damages law has been the subject of conflicting judgments and yesterday 's hearing at the Court of Session is seen as a prelude to having the controversy resolved by the House of Lords , the country 's highest civil court . |
| 17 | Yet , alongside the other rebellions of the 1960s and 1970s , rehabilitation has been the subject of virulent attack — and precisely on the grounds of its actual inhumanity , as well as its injustice and hypocrisy . |
| 18 | Whether platelet endo-peroxides have a proaggregatory role in their own right or only when converted to thromboxane A 2 has been the subject of many studies ( Bunting et al , 1983 ) . |
| 19 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 20 | This report , of the Medical Royal Colleges and their Faculties in the United Kingdom , concerns itself with the diagnosis of brain death , but at the outset acknowledges that ‘ the dilemma of when to switch off the ventilator has been the subject of much public interest . ’ |
| 21 | Hermit crabs are able to make a rapid assessment of whether a particular shell is of an appropriate size or not , and how they do this has been the subject of much study . |
| 22 | What to do for the best has been the subject of much discussion at local aquatic societies over the years . |
| 23 | The nature of this formal regulation has been the subject of much debate . |
| 24 | Deaf education itself has been the subject of much dispute relating to the ‘ how ’ of education — that is , primarily , what method of communication do we use to educate deaf people ? |
| 25 | All the cases of leukaemia in Thurso were centred on this estate , which lies just within 12.5 km of Dounreay , so that the excess there was much higher than in the next cumulative zone , which included the eastern half of the town ( within 16.6 km ) , a difference that has been the subject of much comment . |
| 26 | This proposition has been the subject of much empirical debate , but at present there seems no overwhelming consensus as to its veracity . |
| 27 | The ballot has been the subject of much hostile comment . |
| 28 | The DMS itself , as the major vehicle of such provision , has been the subject of much debate during the last decade , principally about its nature and content . |
| 29 | That such an organism existed , or exists , has been the subject of much speculation by palaeobiologists and geochemists interested in the origin of the so-called banded iron formations ( BIFs ) ; these are sedimentary ores typically composed of alternating layers of silica- and iron-rich minerals that can often be traced as discrete units over hundreds of kilometres . |
| 30 | The origin of these cells has been the subject of much debate . |