Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have be [art] first " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Pilmay 's glasshouse at Silkstone may have been the first successful venture in the district . |
| 2 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 3 | The giant herbivorous dinosaurs would have been the first to go , as plant matter became scarce , but they would soon be followed by the large carnivores that had preyed upon them . |
| 4 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 5 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 6 | The preceding section ( as Tolkien would have been the first to declare ) probably falls into the perennial academic vice of neatness , over-valuing system and ‘ invention ’ instead of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 7 | Shares were expected to plummet , and with Aerospace ripe for takeover , Rover would have been the first to be sold off . |
| 8 | ‘ Jesus may have been the first man who understood the power of some actions . |
| 9 | Just such a sentry must have been the first to die , the night the Welsh came . |
| 10 | The irony is , Juice could have been the first from the starting blocks , as he explains from an unstreet sofa in a chintz sitting room in Soho 's exclusive Hazlitt 's Hotel . |
| 11 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |
| 12 | If that had been done by a chief inspector of a Labour local authority for a Labour think tank , Conservative Members would have been the first on their feet to complain about Mr. Burchall . |
| 13 | Frenchman Clement Ader 's bird-winged Eole may have been the first aircraft to take off under its own power ( a 20 hp steam engine ) in 1890 , but never really flew , lacking natural stability and any control system — though Ader did invent what is still the French word for an aeroplane : avion . |
| 14 | That the most northerly of the Anglian kings should have been the first non-Kentish ruler to adopt Christianity in the 620s is , at the very least , surprising . |
| 15 | P C would have been the first man into the flat and he was carrying the shield that has been mentioned earlier . |