Collocations withsubject
These are words often used in combination withsubject.
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academic subject
In universities, despite lip-service to interdisciplinarity, the 'environment' is seen as a subdiscipline of the academic subject of geography.
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arcane subject
It is an important but slightly arcane subject.
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autonomous subject
But there was a price to pay for this emancipation of man as autonomous subject and of the world as landscape.
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challenging subject
This is a challenging subject which requires further careful investigation.
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chosen subject
Ferling eschews the current habit of historians who write microscopically on their chosen subject and thereby provide immense detail at the expense of meaningful interpretation.
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colonial subject
They may help to inform us about the thoughts and actions of the colonial subject, even if this evidence is very much at the level of second-hand knowledge.
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compulsory subject
Singing became a compulsory subject for both the three- and four-year courses.
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controversial subject
However, limiting the fishing effort or capacity has been a controversial subject, as this policy appears to cause unemployment in fishing communities.
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core subject
Accordingly, informal learning typically involves more than just the core subject of learning, in this case the music; it features an integrated learning on a more holistic level.
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delicate subject
To start talking about a sort of-a delicate subject-he might take the wrong meaning.
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elderly subject
Particular emphasis was given to the impact of repeated vaccination on the risk of influenza in elderly subjects.
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esoteric subject
Each has made its perhaps esoteric subject interesting and accessible to a broad readership.
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every conceivable subject
We hear many speeches from him on every conceivable subject.
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favourite subject
The relation between the choice of music as children's least favourite subject and the two independent variables investigated earlier was also taken into consideration.
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given subject
There is often resistance to scholars espousing paradigms different from those traditionally applied to a given subject.
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grammatical subject
All stimuli consisted of active sentences whose grammatical subject is the name of a person.
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human subject
It is time to look critically at the attitude of exceptionalism that has clouded regulation of human subject research from its inception.
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loyal subject
The advice to this prince by his loyal subject is to listen to the counsel of worthy patriots and his parliaments rather than flattering and dangerous sycophants.
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mundane subject
Let us take the mundane subject of refuse collection.
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mythological subject
Each submitted three tragedies, plus a satyr play (a comic, burlesque version of a mythological subject).
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obese subject
This study examined the effectiveness of sibutramine, an approved weight loss agent, in overweight and obese subjects taking olanzapine for schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder.
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particular subject
However, the papers fall broadly into two categories : authoritative overviews of a particular subject or more focussed novel contributions.
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patentable subject matter
However, market potential is not a necessary, much less a satisfactory, condition to determining whether something comprises patentable subject matter.
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photographic subject
The falls are small, picturesque, and are a popular photographic subject.
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plural subject
Specifically, they will stand out for those of us in the collectivity as words that "we" as a plural subject maintain.
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related subject
The study of invertibility of lambda terms from these different perspectives and the closely related subject of subtyping occupy an important place in type theory.
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required subject
Since 1999, it has been a required subject in the primary and secondary school curriculum.
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sensitive subject
The sensitive subject is no tabula rasa: it is not a blank sheet of paper, but a palimpsest.
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sore subject
This question of the reduction of hours of labour is a very sore subject among even employed and unemployed men.
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speaking subject
Although the relation is external and based on laws of nature, there is still involvement by the speaking subject.
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subject heading
We were surprised to find no citations when we searched for both "bioethics" and "social class," as subject heading or text words.
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subject pronoun
This suggests that readers' initial strategy was to assign co-reference between the subject pronoun in the second clause and the subject of the first clause.
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taboo subject
An even more taboo subject in most rich countries is that other major driver of environmental destruction, overconsumption.
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technical subject
I apologise for being rather technical, but it is useless discussing a technical subject if one is to confine oneself to generalities.
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thorny subject
The reader will learn all he could want to know about all previous and current estimates on this thorny subject.
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