I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a controversial issue/topic/subject
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I tried to avoid controversial topics such as politics and religion.
a king’s subjects (= the people he rules )
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The new laws were very unpopular with the king’s subjects.
a matter/subject of controversy
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The right age to vote is a matter of controversy.
a verb agrees with the subject
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In Arabic, all verbs agree with their subjects in gender and number.
an academic subject
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Children who are not good at academic subjects may excel in music or sport.
be an object/a subject of curiosity (= be something or someone that makes people curious )
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Anyone new was always the object of our curiosity.
be subject to a condition (= depend on a particular thing that must be done )
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Permission to build on the land will be subject to certain conditions.
be subject to approval (= be dependent upon someone’s approval before happening )
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The merger is subject to approval by shareholders.
be subject to constraints (= be limited by them )
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Teachers are subject to the constraints of the examination system.
be subject to negotiation (= be something that must be discussed )
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The pay is subject to negotiation.
be subject to review formal (= may be reviewed or changed )
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These prices are subject to review.
be subject to scrutiny (= be able to be examined )
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All the accounts are subject to scrutiny by auditors.
be subjected to scrutiny (= be examined )
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Each proposal was subjected to careful scrutiny.
be the subject of criticism/be subjected to criticism (= be criticized by people )
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The club has been the subject of criticism since last October.
be the subject of criticism/be subjected to criticism (= be criticized by people )
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The club has been the subject of criticism since last October.
be the subject of debate (= be something that people discuss )
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Teaching methods have long been the subject of debate.
be the subject of gossip (= be talked about )
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His close friendship with Carol was the subject of gossip.
be the subject of legend ( also be the stuff of legend ) (= have stories told about them )
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The island has long been the subject of legend.
be the subject of scrutiny (= be examined )
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The way in which the courts handle such claims has been the subject of close scrutiny.
be the subject of speculation (= be thought and guessed about )
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His role in the affair has been the subject of speculation in the press.
contentious issue/area/subject etc
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Animal welfare did not become a contentious issue until the late 1970s.
discuss the question/subject
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We’d never discussed the question of having children.
drop a subject (= stop studying it at school or university )
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Students may choose to drop a subject in their second year.
emotive issue/subject/word etc
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Child abuse is an emotive subject.
know your job/subject/stuff (= be good at and know all you should about a job or subject )
subject matter
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The movie has been rated ‘R’ due to adult subject matter.
subject sb to an ordeal (= make someone suffer something very painful or frightening )
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Simon Collier was subjected to a horrifying ordeal at gunpoint.
taboo subject
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Rape is a taboo subject .
the subject of a verb (= a noun, pronoun etc that performs the action of the verb or about which something is stated )
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In the sentence 'I like pizza.', "I" is the subject of the verb.
topical subject/issue/theme etc
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a new TV comedy dealing with topical issues
warm to a theme/subject/topic etc
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The more she spoke, the more she warmed to her subject.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Tony himself suggested attending at different times each week in order to familiarize himself with different subject areas of the curriculum.
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Now, she had seven different subjects every day with different teachers, but there was very little interaction.
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Values in patients taking NSAIDs who were colonised were not different from control subjects .
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Further comments on attaching priorities to different subjects and to different levels of material are to be found in Chapter 3.
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The resultant article adopted a slightly different base subject , that of Morrissey's neurosis.
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A means of measuring the differing costs inherent in different subjects , such as classroom-based and workshop-based subjects. 4.
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On close investigation, we often find a surprising number of elements in different subject courses that interrelate.
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Education thrives through enjoyment of the different subjects .
normal
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The normal subject displayed only short bursts of reflux with a maximum duration of four minutes.
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About 80 percent of normal subjects make this error.
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In this study, we found platelet activating factor in four of 13 normal subjects .
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This meal was designed to include many reflux provoking foods to maximise postprandial reflux in normal subjects .
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Giant rectal contractions were never seen in normal subjects .
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Recent studies with ambulatory pressure monitoring systems indicate that an appreciable number of non-peristaltic contractions are commonly found in apparently normal subjects .
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In normal subjects in the fasted state segmenting pressure activity is low and little transit of marker is seen.
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Is this not proof that the pain felt by normal subjects mirrors the nature, intensity and location of tissue damage?
particular
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Their degree is evidence of their academic ability in a particular subject area.
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Nor is the right to study any particular subject or any foreign language.
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I would like to be well versed on a particular subject at work and sought out for my advice 19.
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To examine the reasons for studying a particular subject . 2.
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Three other psychologists gave me their thoughts on particular subjects , which in every case helped to form my own.
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My own particular academic subject is geography.
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One is able to influence others because one is perceived to know more about a particular subject than anyone else.
■ NOUN
area
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These superfields are in turn subdivided into smaller subject areas , which are referred to as subdomains.
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I would suggest that ten or twenty questions would be satisfactory to cover the subject area framed by the major research question.
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A choice of optional units is also available from other relevant subject areas .
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I was a quick study, learning my way around new subject areas fast.
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Their degree is evidence of their academic ability in a particular subject area .
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The subject area in which affirmative sociology gets its greatest challenge may be that of social class.
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It represents, according to my knowledge, the most up-to-date and comprehensive book in this rapidly growing subject area .
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The Gopher program lists different host computers and the subject areas of information they contain.
control
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The control subjects did not receive either placebo or loperamide oxide tablets but underwent an identical series of measurements on one occasion.
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The relatively small difference in median age between the patients and the control subjects is unlikely to be important.
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The difference between mean rates of secretion of acid and pepsin in control subjects and patients with duodenal ulcer is about 190%.
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It is possible that the younger control subjects with a high LI% may develop an adenomatous polyp as an ageing phenomenon.
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The mean total cholesterol concentration among women with polyps was significantly higher than that of control subjects .
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Biopsy specimens from control subjects and patients with ulcerative colitis were studied.
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Fundic argyrophil cell densities in patients with Zollinger-Ellison sydrome were compared with previously published values in 10 healthy control subjects .
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The control subjects had received neither aspirin nor NSAIDs in the three months before study.
core
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The last two subjects are what they call core subjects which you have to take.
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The six core subjects are: Constitutional and Administrative Law.
matter
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The novelty of new subject matter and of the distinctive methods of foreign-language presentation awakens the student's curiosity or exploratory drive.
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A second criticism is the assertion that it is impossible to develop a science of politics because of the subject matter .
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He is all too aware of his own behavior as part of his subject matter .
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They are seeing that all the subject matters work together.
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My other problem, Holmes, is that the subject matter can really be a little dry.
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They are distinguished not only by their formal skill and wide-ranging subject matters , but by their hairless, unshowy prose.
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Here we see that same attention to detail, physical presence and construction focused on much more accessible subject matter .
school
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Much lower down were the traditional school subjects of reading, writing and computation.
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It is regarded as an area of concern, rather than a school subject .
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Since archaeology is scarcely ever available as a school subject , the teaching at university begins from basics.
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Lesson poems Thinking about the poems Write about your thoughts and feelings about a school subject .
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I probably know more about the conventional school subjects than most people of my age.
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By now, John had developed several artistic interests which competed with school subjects for his time and attention.
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There appears to be no syllabus, no timetable, no formal division of work into school subjects , no specific playtimes.
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Since that date certain material implications have followed for those subgroups and school subjects promoting or representing the academic tradition.
■ VERB
broach
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But what was still troubling her was the fact that she had still not broached the subject of Janice.
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Popular magazines now broach the subject of mental illness, while the government is encouraging research into mental health.
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It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status.
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I never broached the subject with him again.
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It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before.
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Now, popular magazines regularly broach the subject .
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It had been Adam, too, who had broached the subject of a new computer programming system for the business.
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When, two months later, Father van Exem broached the subject , the Archbishop was actually quite upset about the idea.
change
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I'd only mentioned sheep in a half-hearted attempt to change the subject of conversation.
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They changed the subject by noting their prosecution of some highly publicized cases against the Klan and other white supremacist organizations.
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He should have finished at university long ago, but he kept taking extra courses, changing subjects and things.
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He would smile, and change the subject .
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Like Mondale, he had to take a risk to change the subject and refocus attention.
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But Derek had thought of another anecdote, changing the subject at once.
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She got sort of white-faced, then pulled herself together and changed the subject .
raise
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Jean-Claude raised the subject of a piano again.
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He seemed loath to raise the subject and I did not see why I should do so.
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Voice over Parents think the cards are a good way to raise the subject of safety.
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Should staff raise the subject with all patients?
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He raises a subject that he has discussed with me.
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She did not raise the subject again.
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He often raises that subject , and we understand his desperation about what will happen to his seat at the next election.
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He had not raised the subject .
study
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There were also sharp drops in the numbers wanting to study engineering subjects and pharmacy.
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Nor is the right to study any particular subject or any foreign language.
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University offers a unique opportunity to study subjects not offered at school as well as those of which applicants may have some experience.
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Their list looks remarkably like those of researchers who have studied this subject .
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But it too uses passive tests most frequently when it is studying female subjects .
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U., studying some arcane subject that turned out to be completely irrelevant.
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The student is therefore likely to study four different subjects in these two years, in up to four departments.
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I asked some human beings, people who had studied the subject for years, and they did not know.
teach
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The amendment required that all teachers be certified to teach the subjects to which they were assigned.
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And as you teach all subjects in the Junior School, you will be able to let Art enliven all your work.
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It is often said that good teachers do not teach subject matter, they teach who they are.
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Social sciences are poised for a revival in schools but will there be enough qualified staff to teach the subjects ?
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This plot construction is unnecessary; why not just teach the subject at hand?
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Choice One of the crucial decisions, now, is whether to teach a subject discretely, or to integrate.
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It would use new methods to teach traditional academic subjects and equip young people with technical skills.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broach the subject/question/matter etc
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But what was still troubling her was the fact that she had still not broached the subject of Janice.
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He broached the matter carefully while Marshall put a match to some logs in the grate.
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I never broached the subject with him again.
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It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status.
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It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before.
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Now, popular magazines regularly broach the subject.
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Popular magazines now broach the subject of mental illness, while the government is encouraging research into mental health.
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When, two months later, Father van Exem broached the subject, the Archbishop was actually quite upset about the idea.
core curriculum/subjects/skills etc
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And it was certainly an improvement on my thoughts about the core curriculum.
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Every student must pass through an extensive core curriculum, including courses such as World Humanities 101.
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In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.
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In schools that expect all students to take a core curriculum, students achieve more.
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In the school system, aspects of core skills were present in the Munn curriculum, introduced in the late 1970s.
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Once in the classroom the teacher is restricted by the core curriculum and general workload and lack of equipment.
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This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum, which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum.
exhaust a subject/topic etc
keep to the point/subject etc
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Come straight to the point and keep to the point are the golden rules of letter writing.
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De Quincey was no master of keeping to the point.
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Nothing is more irritating than people who do not keep to the point and talk for too long.
pet project/theory/subject
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Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.
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Different chemists prefer different pet theories, and there is no shortage of theories.
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Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.
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Even those Hippocratic treatises which inveigh against Presocratic dogmatism are themselves just as dogmatic where their own pet theories are concerned.
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His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.
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Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.
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No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
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The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.
sore point/spot/subject (with sb)
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And now she had pierced her again in this sore spot.
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Finally, there are plans to provide custodians a sore point to enable the churches to open for two hours a day.
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Graduate entry with resultant opportunities for promotion was then - as now - an especially sore point.
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It is still a sore point with both grandparents that neither Alice nor Henry have been baptized.
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The potential restriction of physician income is a major sore point.
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This is a sore spot with me.
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Tom gently washed Willie's body again and smoothed witch-hazel on to the sore spots.
stick to the point/subject/facts
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"Please stick to the facts," said the judge.
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But caution is required where miracles come into play; let us stick to the facts.
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Try to stick to the subject of the row rather than bringing up 25 years' worth of misdemeanours.
subject to contract
touchy subject/question etc
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He also knew the answers to some touchy questions.
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Morris's lasting influence is a touchy subject at the White House.
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You know money is a touchy subject with me.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Subjects for this experiment represented a good cross-section of the American population.
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All subjects were tested for perfect hearing before the experiment began.
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Bottle-collecting even has a website devoted to the subject .
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English was my favourite subject at school.
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Half of the subjects were given caffeine.
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He has very little to say on the subject of the accusations made against him.
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History was my favorite subject in school.
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I could see John was embarrassed, so I changed the subject .
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I read a lot of books about astronomy. It's a very interesting subject .
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The first book on the subject was published in 1900.
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This is getting us nowhere. Let's just drop the subject , okay?
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Truffaut's childhood memories were the subject of his first film.
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Until about 20 years ago, the subject of the environment was hardly discussed.
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We talked about all sorts of subjects.
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What subjects are you studying?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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As we have seen, this second chance to debate the subject of dissension within the community was also rejected.
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But his subjects refused to sit still, disappearing into cellars and doorways.
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Each subject is given a number.
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I asked some human beings, people who had studied the subject for years, and they did not know.
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Instead, she took a job as a maid - the subject of her first book, One Pair of Hands.
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Revision is necessary to make provision for emerging subjects.
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So many antiques that Architectural Digest magazine devoted a lengthy article to the subject in its November issue.
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The brewing group has been the subject of intense speculation for decades.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
peoples
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The awakening of national consciousness amongst the subject peoples was a major factor in undermining the power of the sultans.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
broach the subject/question/matter etc
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But what was still troubling her was the fact that she had still not broached the subject of Janice.
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He broached the matter carefully while Marshall put a match to some logs in the grate.
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I never broached the subject with him again.
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It was half a year, he thought, since she had last broached the subject of his bachelor status.
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It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before.
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Now, popular magazines regularly broach the subject.
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Popular magazines now broach the subject of mental illness, while the government is encouraging research into mental health.
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When, two months later, Father van Exem broached the subject, the Archbishop was actually quite upset about the idea.
exhaust a subject/topic etc
keep to the point/subject etc
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Come straight to the point and keep to the point are the golden rules of letter writing.
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De Quincey was no master of keeping to the point.
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Nothing is more irritating than people who do not keep to the point and talk for too long.
stick to the point/subject/facts
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"Please stick to the facts," said the judge.
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But caution is required where miracles come into play; let us stick to the facts.
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Try to stick to the subject of the row rather than bringing up 25 years' worth of misdemeanours.
subject to contract
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Marx maintained that in all class societies, the ruling class exploits and oppresses the subject class.
III. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
abuse
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They subjected her to verbal abuse .
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He was subjected to constant abuse by his older brother.
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Hands often age first-subjected to constant abuse , they're usually neglected when applying moisturiser or sun cream.
analysis
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Second, it is more difficult to draw strong inferences from these data since they can not be subjected to statistical analysis .
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Second, a decrease in both supply and demand can be subjected to similar analysis .
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Completed questionnaires of 786 middle-class men were subjected to comprehensive statistical analysis .
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Now it is 4, which is to be subjected to harmonic analysis .
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Accordingly, two entire trials for each pairing were subjected to detailed analysis .
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The mass is assumed to be inactive politically and is rarely subjected to detailed analysis .
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The case has been subjected to analysis by the House of Lords in the more unfriendly climate of the 1980s.
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In addition, each cost area examined was subjected to a causal analysis .
attack
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I said I would be happy to talk to anyone but I refused to be subjected to personal attack .
child
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They were explicitly aimed at the unrespectable poor, subjecting their children to the full disciplinary regime of the new training schools.
criticism
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Throughout the session Li's report was subjected to almost unprecedented criticism from delegates.
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The monarchists and conservatives claimed that all national and public figures and their acts should always be subject to scrutiny and criticism .
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In Parliament and outside, the distinction between capital and non-capital murders was subjected to much criticism .
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Tensions within liberalism Classical liberalism has been subjected to severe criticism both from conservatives and communitarians.
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Witnesses who cooperate with tabloids in return for money often find themselves subjected to withering criticism if they are called into court.
harassment
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No one should be subjected to verbal harassment , just as no one should be threatened with physical violence.
ordeal
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That night I was again subjected to the ordeal by wedding dress.
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Hundreds of generations of goats have been subjected to these ordeals each winter, and the best adapted animals have survived.
pressure
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To what extent are club doctors subject to pressure to agree to players playing while injured?
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The providers of domestic, portering and ward ancillary staff are also subjected to pressure from staff for the peak-holiday periods.
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Prosecution witnesses were allegedly tortured or subjected to other pressure to fabricate evidence against them.
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To be governed is to be subjected to the regular pressure of an authority operating according to fixed rules.
process
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Here we were subjected to a process of pounding and separating, carding and spinning.
review
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The articles amount to premature judgment of an issue that has yet to be subjected to valid peer review .
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It would also enable sentencing practice to be monitored and subjected to regular review .
scrutiny
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Bringing these out in the open and subjecting them to scrutiny and analysis will yield fruitful results.
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The monarchists and conservatives claimed that all national and public figures and their acts should always be subject to scrutiny and criticism.
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Nothing is taken for granted, everything at every period is subjected to searching scrutiny .
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All bibliographical information provided by suppliers to libraries should be subjected to close scrutiny .
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It is a disgrace that Government Departments are not subjected to the same scrutiny and punishments.
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The design of each of the new qualifications is currently being subjected to intensive scrutiny and consultation.
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However, it is clear from these three papers that the Continental traditions themselves need to be subjected to feminist scrutiny .
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It means only that ideas both given and new will be subjected to scrutiny and not simply accepted on trust.
test
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How many members of this crew have ever been subjected to a polygraph test ?
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The bureau had rejected recommendations that its agents be subjected to polygraph tests more often.
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As regards Bob's liability for the damage to Alan's car, the exclusionary notice would be subjected to a reasonableness test .
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However, there are certain peripheral types of semantic constituent which can not be directly subjected to the test .
torture
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Mum was subjected to water torture for three weeks running.
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Barbara was subjected to heinous torture , yet reftised to disavow her faith.
treatment
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Few complete bodies were subjected to this treatment as it was a time-consuming and expensive exercise.
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Laidlaw was spun round and the Arab checked his rope then he was pushed aside and Graham subjected to the same treatment .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
core curriculum/subjects/skills etc
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And it was certainly an improvement on my thoughts about the core curriculum.
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Every student must pass through an extensive core curriculum, including courses such as World Humanities 101.
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In designing the programme, we have tried to emphasise the vocational aspects of the core skills modules wherever possible.
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In schools that expect all students to take a core curriculum, students achieve more.
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In the school system, aspects of core skills were present in the Munn curriculum, introduced in the late 1970s.
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Once in the classroom the teacher is restricted by the core curriculum and general workload and lack of equipment.
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This could be construed as a tailor-made curriculum, which can not be developed into a generic or core curriculum.
pet project/theory/subject
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Both grants represented pet projects of two council subcommittee members.
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Different chemists prefer different pet theories, and there is no shortage of theories.
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Even as the trajectory of his thought kept rising in the early seventies, the clock was ticking on his pet project.
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Even those Hippocratic treatises which inveigh against Presocratic dogmatism are themselves just as dogmatic where their own pet theories are concerned.
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His pet project is a biotechnology institute in which state funding will be matched by contributions from the Schering drug company.
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Monitoring the telephone conversations of the Kremlin hierarchy had become one of his pet projects over the last few years.
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No organization likes being told that it has got to hold back its expansion or abandon some pet project.
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The proposals are seen as a pet project of the right wing of the Conservative Party and Conservative students' groups.
sore point/spot/subject (with sb)
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And now she had pierced her again in this sore spot.
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Finally, there are plans to provide custodians a sore point to enable the churches to open for two hours a day.
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Graduate entry with resultant opportunities for promotion was then - as now - an especially sore point.
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It is still a sore point with both grandparents that neither Alice nor Henry have been baptized.
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The potential restriction of physician income is a major sore point.
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This is a sore spot with me.
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Tom gently washed Willie's body again and smoothed witch-hazel on to the sore spots.
subject to contract
touchy subject/question etc
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He also knew the answers to some touchy questions.
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Morris's lasting influence is a touchy subject at the White House.
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You know money is a touchy subject with me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Because they lead somewhat unusual lives, college teachers are often subjected to this type of elaborate caricature.
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Exhaust gases are then subjected to an air injection which encourages unburnt fuel to ignite in the exhaust manifold.
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Most authors of political business cycle models subject their models to econometric or other forms of testing.
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Physiological mechanisms which control the population dynamics are also subject to variation and selection.
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Responses to natural challenges thus continually free humanity from its environment and at the same time subject it to the resultant solutions.
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The only sign of this disorder is the splitting of albumin into two distinct bands when serum is subjected to electrophoresis.
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To what extent are club doctors subject to pressure to agree to players playing while injured?