Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be the main " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take what I hope is the main path . |
| 2 | Which I think is the main reason actually . |
| 3 | It is their opposition to private placement bureau , which they see as undermining the public employment service , which has been the main explanation for trade union hostility to agency working and , until recently , for their reluctance to recruit or organise agency workers ( on this last see Towers/Harrison 1981 ) . |
| 4 | I believe that Frank is too autocratic , too opinionated — especially about relay selections , which have been the main bone of contention between us down the years . |
| 5 | Tony , what do you think are the main trends in education today ? |
| 6 | He had been restored to the earldom in 1470 as part of Edward 's measures against Clarence and the Nevilles , who had been the main beneficiaries of the Percy forfeiture . |
| 7 | He had been restored to the earldom in 1470 as part of Edward 's measures against Clarence and the Nevilles , who had been the main beneficiaries of the Percy forfeiture . |
| 8 | When you ring up Prestel , the first thing you see is the main service menu . |
| 9 | During the last nine years , it has been richer pensioners who have been the main beneficiaries of the real increase in the value of pensions . |
| 10 | What would you say was the main task of managers ? |
| 11 | It has been the main source of advice to successive governments on all matters nuclear . |
| 12 | It has been the main argument of this book , however , that this objection ought not to be allowed to have the last word . |
| 13 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 14 | Thus , in 1969 he had been the main Cabinet instrument of dissent in rejecting Wilson and Mrs Castle 's proposed statutory incomes policy . |
| 15 | What he wanted was the main force , mobile and sudden and a prize fit for his steel . |
| 16 | What have been the main features ? |