"subject" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- And though wildflowers are its nominal subject, their garden kin are legion.
- When a Turing test is applied to a mixed group of human and computer subjects, the computers are the nominal subjects.
- If Christmas is the film's nominal subject, its subtext is mending the wounds of divorce.
- The nominal subject of the conflict is Israel's request for $10 billion in loan guarantees to help resettle Soviet Jews.
- Later they became nominal, then full subjects of the Russian Tsar.
- Its nominal subject was the discovery of a Roman urn burial in Norfolk.
- For instance, inversion of nominal subjects is possible in many relative clauses:
- Eyewitness to Evolution, they continue to haunt his latest book, even though its nominal subject is living organisms from the depths of geological time.
- Therefore Frederick, whilst the nominal subject of the opera, remaons unseen, but is, however, heard playing the flute in the background.
- Gibbon's nominal subject was ancient Rome, but his readers understood that he was talking about their world too.
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