Example sentences of "[vb past] the subject of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gwendolen , thoroughly upset by the morning 's events but mindful of her appointment for dinner that evening , decided to slip into Mr Horrell 's , in order to purchase some of his advertised Special Skin Soap , In the doorway she met the subject of her dinner appointment himself . |
| 2 | However , the way the problem has been constructed and made the subject of public , political and research concern is influenced by a whole variety of different values and political interests ( Parton , N. , 1985 , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | What this shows is that the physical absence or presence of the other party at the time of the transaction by itself bears no necessary relationship to the appropriateness of the transaction being investigated and made the subject of an order by an English court . |
| 4 | As a general principle , the status of a person made the subject of an assault is a matter to be considered by the tribunal as an aggravating factor in sentencing , rather than an ingredient in the substantive description of the offence . |
| 5 | They can not be dissected into elements and made the subject of a statistical tabulation in the fashion of the Ethnographic Atlas . |
| 6 | Thus , a young baby made the subject of an emergency order shortly after birth took the residence of its foster mother and not its natural mother with whom it had never lived . |
| 7 | It was when the semi-public nature of family matters became the subject of attention that the sources of the legitimacy of the state — the Irish nation , the church , democracy — were brought into conflict . |
| 8 | She must find it galling to be confused , as she often is , with Dian Fossey , the American disciple of Louis Leakey who studied gorillas in Rwanda ; her life and murder — probably by poachers — became the subject of a Hollywood film . |
| 9 | After 1968 , no new artistic movements were permitted , and groups of artists or intellectuals meeting in cafes became the subject of suspicion . |
| 10 | But Mr O'Brien had to resign abruptly last summer when he became the subject of a grand-jury investigation into possible illegal loans from a military sub-contractor . |
| 11 | At the end of their eras , both men became the subject of investigations : Mr Milken 's in court last year and Morgan 's in front of Congress 's Pujo committee in 1912–13 . |
| 12 | The church became the subject of incredulous and not necessarily friendly discussion , but it was a kind of publicity from which the church came to gain recruits . |
| 13 | His work became the subject of college analysis and European film festivals which , incidentally , were recognizing his work with retrospectives as early as 1964 . |
| 14 | It had always , I think , been assumed that I might try to get to Oxford , and history ( by an equally mysterious process ) became the subject of my choice . |
| 15 | After his death , Barbarossa became the subject of many legends , including that of the sleeping king waiting to return and save his people . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is not surprising that he became the subject of legend , his noble image inspiring the collective imagination to attach magical tales to his historical person . |
| 17 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 18 | Such hexaploid triticale then became the subject of large-scale seed production . |
| 19 | When later in 1823 he was once again arrested for debt , he watched fellow debtors in King 's Bench Prison perform a mock election which became the subject of a famous painting exhibited in 1828 and bought by George IV for £500 — ‘ baronets , and bankers , authors and merchants , painters and poets , dandies of rank in silk and velvet and dandies of no rank in rags and tatters , idiotism and insanity , poverty and affliction , all mingled in indiscriminate merriment , with a spiked wall twenty feet high above their heads ! ’ |
| 20 | During the Renaissance , human anatomy became the subject of detailed investigation , and artists were involved in a search for mathematical relationships between the sizes of various parts of the body . |
| 21 | In Britain in the late 1980s the idea of the Anthropic Principle , a hitherto obscure doctrine in physics , became the subject of conversation at cocktail parties , was probed exhaustively in a 700-page book and was summarized in popular science magazines and television documentaries . |
| 22 | This book , with a foreword by Magnus Magnusson , became the subject of a BBC television programme at the time . |
| 23 | As time passed , Elena too became the subject of such gestures of endorsement from the West which were duly recorded for the benefit of Romanians , lest they forget by just how an extraordinary couple they were ruled . |
| 24 | During the Renaissance , human anatomy became the subject of detailed investigation , and artists were involved in a search for mathematical relationships between the sizes of various parts of the body . |
| 25 | IN JUNE 1992 , William Andrews , under sentence of death in Utah , became the subject of an Urgent Action . |
| 26 | Levitation , who became the subject of intense interest from major labels on leaving Rough Trade , plan to play low-key shows at the end of November before going into the studio to record material for New Year release . |
| 27 | Correspondent Hadrian Jeffs of Norwich suggested that the lady in the background of the photograph could have been Hilda Lyon , who was a calculator on the design staff at Cardington ; he also points out that ‘ the model is of the R.101 in its original form , before the fitting of the controversial amidships bay which became the subject of so much debate in the post mortem ’ . |
| 28 | In 1946 , the National Health Service Act was placed on the Statute Book , and the future of St. Peter 's Hospital became the subject of intensive local debate and negotiation . |
| 29 | Mrs Whitehouse viewed these programmes as having no redeeming qualities whatsoever , and it was not long before she herself became the subject of a satirical programme in her own right . |
| 30 | John Savage is forced to gamble his life on the turn of a revolver chamber in The Deerhunter : the powerful central scene , symbolic rather than documentary , which became the subject of sterile controversy . |