Example sentences of "[verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ought to I ought to 've been the bloody brainiest in country me |
| 2 | What do you think Are they ke What do you think are the major problems they should be concentrating on ? |
| 3 | Yeah what kind of things should the police What are the most i What do you think are the major problems the major crimes in the flats ? |
| 4 | Tony , what do you think are the main trends in education today ? |
| 5 | What do you think are the common causes of fire in the home situation ? |
| 6 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 7 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 8 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 9 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 10 | What he has done , he explains , is to combine the belief of his philosophical predecessors that ‘ the things immediately perceived , are ideas which exist only in the mind ’ with the common-sense belief that ‘ those things … [ we ] immediately perceive are the real things ’ ; and these two , put together ‘ do in effect constitute the substance of what I advance ’ . |
| 11 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 12 | Being excavated are the seventeenth-century summer palace of Alexis Michailovich , father of Czar Peter the Great , and a medieval site nearby the Kremlin . |
| 13 | Also listed are the various plastic Hurricane and Spitfire replicas that now replace the real thing at several RAF stations . |
| 14 | So the injunction to directors is that they must act bona fide in what they , and not the court , thinks are the best interests of the company . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , it is likely that the qualitative features of DNA binding are the same . |
| 16 | Among the peculiarities of the Oxford scheme which other institutions find hard to replicate are the following : |
| 17 | Only after a web of intrigue has been broken are the true culprits revealed . |
| 18 | ‘ If by that you mean are the white ones dirty , then yes . ’ |
| 19 | Also given are the dividing factors at each step . |
| 20 | What really matters are the personal relationships within the structure . |
| 21 | Also appearing are the up-and-coming Farenheit and Guitarist contributor Michael Fath , the latter repeating his performance at our recent Scottish Show . |
| 22 | Included are the large parrots such as the hyacinth macaw , canidi macaw and palm cockatoo and 87 of the 287 species of birds of prey . |
| 23 | ( Also included are the National Girobank , the discount houses and the banking department at the Bank of England . ) |
| 24 | The most fundamental barrier to the penetration of Marxism into Latin America throughout the period under discussion has been the Catholic Church . |
| 25 | Enlarged access resources By far the most important supplement to the Funds resources has been the enlarged access facility , available since March 1981 . |
| 26 | For example , students , both at secondary school and university , for whom activism rather than strategic thinking has been the prime consideration in the struggle , have to be persuaded to co-operate . |
| 27 | With Germany , France has been the prime mover behind closer European integration . |
| 28 | Historically , resource allocation has been the prime objective ( eg in relation to fisheries ) and environmental protection has been no more than a secondary objective . |
| 29 | The individual researcher has been the prime mover , seeking to satisfy his own needs . |
| 30 | I had joined a group who are still fixated on a classification of ‘ disorder ’ which homes in on those who attack property , ; and since the amassing of property has been a primary aim of capitalist society , it should come as no surprise to find that to prevent the dispossessed from simply taking from the élite has been the primary structuring principle of policing . |