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.