Example sentences of "[verb] are the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Countries whose changing financial structure examined are the US , Canada , UK , West Germany , Switzerland , France and Japan . |
| 2 | What do you think are the most important differences between men and women ? |
| 3 | What do you think are the reasons for the problems facing George and Marie , and what advice would you give them ? |
| 4 | What do you think are the common causes of fire in the home situation ? |
| 5 | What do you think Are they ke What do you think are the major problems they should be concentrating on ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | Tony , what do you think are the main trends in education today ? |
| 8 | ‘ The only people who suffer are the fans . |
| 9 | At that time , of course , unemployment was not the major issue it is today , neither did we have the burden of AIDS , but I still maintain that the most important changes we can make are the ones inside our own heads . |
| 10 | What it does not convey are the undulations , the surprising humps and bumps more redolent of a seaside links . |
| 11 | ‘ Support and involvement rather than nagging are the watchwords . ’ |
| 12 | One of the first things to go are the costumes and articles of adornment which identify that culture with its roots . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 16 | The values which the choice theory represents are the values of a strong laissez-faire conception of the market . |
| 17 | Two factors that have influenced the way these have been developed are the principle that Davidson believes in , that ‘ what is measured gets done ’ , and his experiences in dealing with boards and managers at the coalface in retail banking . |
| 18 | Similarly traceried are the fan vaults which roof these magnificent buildings . |
| 19 | Being excavated are the seventeenth-century summer palace of Alexis Michailovich , father of Czar Peter the Great , and a medieval site nearby the Kremlin . |
| 20 | All a buyer gets to see are the sample boxes opened on the trading floor , on the strength of which he negotiates with the merchant . |
| 21 | Amongst the offices listed are the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds and that of bailiff of the Manor of Northstead the existence of which is nominal only but ‘ appointment' ’ of a Member of Parliament to which is the traditional manner of resigning a seat . |
| 22 | Also listed are the names of the dealers who provided the boxes . |
| 23 | Also listed are the various plastic Hurricane and Spitfire replicas that now replace the real thing at several RAF stations . |
| 24 | Direct mail selling frequently uses database information to try and sell only to those people whom the seller thinks are the most likely to give him a sale . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , it is likely that the qualitative features of DNA binding are the same . |
| 27 | Among the peculiarities of the Oxford scheme which other institutions find hard to replicate are the following : |
| 28 | Only after a web of intrigue has been broken are the true culprits revealed . |
| 29 | And they got are the kids alive ? |
| 30 | ‘ If by that you mean are the white ones dirty , then yes . ’ |