Example sentences of "[verb] be [art] [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 | The limitation is easy to spot : the unspoken assumption that the industrial and economic wealth of his country belongs by right to the whites ; and that any discomforts the blacks suffer are an unfortunate legacy of history . |
| 7 | You could 've been a real trendsetter , you could 've put Ghostbuster stripes on it |
| 8 | In particular Donal Lunny 's assured production allows for moments of rain-washed clarity in what could 've been a groggy hotchpotch . |
| 9 | Er where would with er would 've been a front room that was another house . |
| 10 | There must 've been a little bit of snow |
| 11 | Would that 've been a full time then or would she have done other |
| 12 | Yeah , but if they 'd have , if they 'd have said look , we 're onto erm a job now which would 've been a big job and it looks like it finishing up in Yorkshire , finishing up in Lancashire , be ready if we give a call out . |
| 13 | You 'd 've been alright if it 'd 've been a mass murderer slept for years . |
| 14 | Got the ball away when it might 've been a fourth Pisa corner . |
| 15 | ‘ It would 've been a bad time for t'road between t'two farms ti be blocked wi' snow . ’ |
| 16 | Er it , it does seem to me it would 've been an enormous problem for the Chinese Communist Party had absolute egalitarianism worked . |
| 17 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 18 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 19 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 20 | It may be for everyone who comes to buy a ticket , but those who do choose to go are a small minority of the population . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | All I have to wear are the same old rags I 've had for years . |
| 24 | When applications being developed are an integrated part of a total system , these techniques prove inadequate . |
| 25 | The most common experiences in the two years before a cancer is diagnosed are a significant loss or a sense of meaninglessness in the whole process of living . |
| 26 | Being excavated are the seventeenth-century summer palace of Alexis Michailovich , father of Czar Peter the Great , and a medieval site nearby the Kremlin . |
| 27 | Techniques of consumer targeting are an important additional input to market analysis , segmentation and planning . |
| 28 | Also listed are the various plastic Hurricane and Spitfire replicas that now replace the real thing at several RAF stations . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , it is likely that the qualitative features of DNA binding are the same . |