Example sentences of "have been the subject [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company , which owns Spear & Jackson , the garden tools manufacturer , has been the subject of recurrent speculation for months , and it was fuelled last month when Neill announced a fall in pre-tax profits from £2.71m to just £28,000 in the first half . |
| 2 | The brewing group has been the subject of intense speculation for decades . |
| 3 | Since that date she has been the subject of TV documentaries , a feature film ( ‘ Frida ’ by Paul Leduc ) , a stage play , numerous publications and the inspiration for designer clothing . |
| 4 | THE RISE of sea level predicted as a consequence of global warming has been the subject of some spectacular doom-mongering since the greenhouse effect leapt to prominence . |
| 5 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 6 | It is appropriate , then , that Ali has been the subject of a great number of pieces in Esquire , most of them written by undisputed literary heavyweights , including Irwin Shaw and Norman Mailer among others . |
| 7 | The importance of this development has been the subject of some debate . |
| 8 | This has been the subject of a number of House of Lords decisions , and yet the definition is still not clear and settled . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | The source of the Danube has been the subject of vigorous debate and in his Danube , Claudio Magris devotes several droll pages to the matter . |
| 11 | Of all the Bletchley eccentrics I suppose the most celebrated now must be Alan Turing , largely because he has been the subject of Hugh Whitemore 's very successful play Breaking the Code . |
| 12 | In fact , the precise effect that radiation has when it comes into contact with the environment in general , and the human body in particular , has been the subject of intense scientific investigation . |
| 13 | Why some of these experiments should be more successful than others at revealing group differences has been the subject of some experimental investigation . |
| 14 | His work has been the subject of seven one-man exhibitions , has been featured as a lead article in the British Journal of Photography , included in many other shows and has received a number of prizes ( including the South Bank Festival Photography Competition 1990 Portfolio ) . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | The Flamande , with its own herdbook since 1886 , has been the subject of a conservation programme in France since 1977 . |
| 17 | It has been the subject of some concern by those who feel that local authority officers should be completely divorced from party political connections . |
| 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 | The exam itself has been the subject of considerable dispute , with accusations that not only is the marking inconsistent and some of the markers corrupt , but that the DET and the homelands education authorities frequently ‘ move the goalposts ’ by altering the pass levels year by year . |
| 20 | Boxing has been the subject of adverse criticism for some time ( Corsellis , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | Some of these processes will be documented in order to interpret the fauna from a British cave site which has been the subject of intensive study for the last ten years . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The nuclear debate , for example , has been the subject of a picture book ( Raymond Briggs ' When the wind blows ) and various novels such as Robert Swindells ' Brother in the land and Louise Lawrence 's Children of the dust . |
| 24 | The relationship of this with the other mounds in the Boyne Valley area has been the subject of detailed investigation by Martin Brennan , who has demonstrated purposeful and exact siting and orientation . |
| 25 | Of all the possibilities of interventive reproduction , none has been the subject of more public opposition than surrogacy . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mr Lamont is not happy because he has been the subject of more criticism and speculation over the past three months than most Ministers suffer in a lifetime . |
| 28 | He has ‘ written ’ far more books than any other driver in the history of the sport ; he has given an infinite number of ‘ in depth ’ interviews ; he has been the subject of as much and as adulatory film footage as the Fellini-like Enzo Ferrari , and while everything he says seems absolutely straight , nothing he says is without a sharp edge to it . |
| 29 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 30 | This provision has been the subject of wide-ranging criticism ( Norman , 1980 ; Greengross , 1986 ) . |