Example sentences of "become the subject " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After 1968 , no new artistic movements were permitted , and groups of artists or intellectuals meeting in cafes became the subject of suspicion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His work became the subject of college analysis and European film festivals which , incidentally , were recognizing his work with retrospectives as early as 1964 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After his death , Barbarossa became the subject of many legends , including that of the sleeping king waiting to return and save his people . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Arsenal became the subject of more ill-considered criticism than any other club , a fate which has more or less persisted . |
| 12 | Such hexaploid triticale then became the subject of large-scale seed production . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This book , with a foreword by Magnus Magnusson , became the subject of a BBC television programme at the time . |
| 17 | Then the local minister became the subject under discussion . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | IN JUNE 1992 , William Andrews , under sentence of death in Utah , became the subject of an Urgent Action . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Indeed , the nature , organisation and teaching of library skills became the subject of fiery debate , both within and outside the library committee . |
| 27 | Some royal mortuary cults were maintained for longer than others and a few kings became the subject of special worship , amongst whom were Amenophis I with his mother queen Ahmose-Nefertari as patron gods of the Theban necropolis , Sesostris III in Nubia , Amenemhat III in the Fayum , Amenophis III at Soleb , and Ramesses II at Abu Simbel and as patron of soldiers in the East Delta . |
| 28 | By 1812 the polemical tone had become bitter : the two conceptions of Spain became the subject of a journalistic war . |
| 29 | When the housing market collapsed , it appears that this property was affected because it became the subject of a forced sale . |
| 30 | She also began to read her father 's books , Freud , Jung , Melanie Klein , the psychoanalytic canon , which became the subject of endless conversations between them across a dinner table which most often they shared alone . |