Example sentences of "[pron] would first " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Much as I myself desire to accompany my lord , being a minor and not fully wed , I would first need my mother 's permission — such would take time , alas ! |
| 2 | I would first like to thank you for your ‘ Singer Specials ’ . |
| 3 | I would first like to explain your obligations on an issue which has caused a great deal of concern and confusion for returners by being made to appear much more complicated than it actually is . |
| 4 | But I would first start with a slightly wider issue . |
| 5 | So I would first urge that we get that paper out to us as soon as possible . |
| 6 | Now , she decided , if ever she had that kind of money , she would first ensure that her family would never again , for as long as they lived , be in need . |
| 7 | ‘ True it is , Duart , some nights back they were laughing like donkeys about who would first break the truce . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no other person who would first fall in love with a house and then do up the house inspired by its period details , putting everything in its proper place according to the house 's architecture , history and setting . |
| 9 | To make sense of it one would first of all have to distinguish between , and learn to identify , the various kinds of structural constraints which form individuals and social groups into the ‘ supports ’ of the complex whole . |
| 10 | To sustain the more general claims one would first need to have a systematic account of the class structure of a society which showed that the interests promoted by the state were in fact those of the ruling class . |
| 11 | If , however , there was a slow-cooked casserole , there would first be an hors-d'oeuvre . |
| 12 | The priority was to get hold of some more men , although they would first have to be trained up to SAS standards before being of any use on operations . |
| 13 | Always courteous , they would first announce their presence by sending messages or flowers . |
| 14 | They would first have inspected judicial practice to see whether almost all other judges were agreed either that the words of a statute must be given their " literal " meaning , even when that was not what the legislators intended , or the opposite , that the words must not be given their literal meaning in these circumstances . |
| 15 | He realized that , in order to bring about the changes he was seeking , he would first have to inhibit ( or stop ) his habitual instinctive response to a given stimulus . |
| 16 | In other words , he would first have to be told in the language of paragraph 10.4 , ‘ You do not have to say anything unless you wish to do so … |
| 17 | In other words , if the piece was , say , three minutes long , he would first sing the entire three-minute flute part , then the entire three-minute violin part , and so on through our small orchestra of about nine players . ’ |
| 18 | To follow this basic tenet , it would first be necessary to answer an apparently obvious question to which I have devoted much of my life . |
| 19 | In any case it would first of all be necessary to demarcate the requisite number of super-constituencies . |
| 20 | ‘ Colonel X ’ claimed that it would first be necessary to implement a Non-Alignment Pact for Pakistan , which would ‘ create the preconditions of a Pact for Afghanistan ’ . |
| 21 | Yes sir , county council could make that decision , it would first though have to consider a report from the education committee , under the education act . |