Example sentences of "[verb] be the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do you think Are they ke What do you think are the major problems they should be concentrating on ? |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Tony , what do you think are the main trends in education today ? |
| 4 | What do you think are the common causes of fire in the home situation ? |
| 5 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 6 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | Being excavated are the seventeenth-century summer palace of Alexis Michailovich , father of Czar Peter the Great , and a medieval site nearby the Kremlin . |
| 9 | Also listed are the various plastic Hurricane and Spitfire replicas that now replace the real thing at several RAF stations . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Only after a web of intrigue has been broken are the true culprits revealed . |
| 12 | ‘ If by that you mean are the white ones dirty , then yes . ’ |
| 13 | Also given are the dividing factors at each step . |
| 14 | What really matters are the personal relationships within the structure . |
| 15 | Also appearing are the up-and-coming Farenheit and Guitarist contributor Michael Fath , the latter repeating his performance at our recent Scottish Show . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( Also included are the National Girobank , the discount houses and the banking department at the Bank of England . ) |
| 18 | The most fundamental barrier to the penetration of Marxism into Latin America throughout the period under discussion has been the Catholic Church . |
| 19 | Enlarged access resources By far the most important supplement to the Funds resources has been the enlarged access facility , available since March 1981 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | With Germany , France has been the prime mover behind closer European integration . |
| 22 | The individual researcher has been the prime mover , seeking to satisfy his own needs . |
| 23 | Historically , resource allocation has been the prime objective ( eg in relation to fisheries ) and environmental protection has been no more than a secondary objective . |
| 24 | In every case television in its full variety of formats has been the primary influence in projecting the parties ' images . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I have seen many , many enclosures all over the world where design , not animal welfare , has been the primary focus and thousands of dollars have been wasted on making things look pretty . |
| 27 | Of course the phenomenological approach has been with us for a long time , and has been the primary source of evidence in the psychoanalytic tradition . |
| 28 | The Vietnamese occupation of Kampuchea has been the primary stumbling block . |
| 29 | There has been the usual talk of ‘ insecurity ’ and maybe so , although this fashionable ‘ insecurity ’ is a very glib key which seems to fit every known lock . |
| 30 | What 's been missing up until now , though , has been the right producer — early REM cohort Mitch Easter 's enlisted here — the cash to afford a string section for those weeping , sweeping passages and , crucially , confidence on the part of Moose themselves . |