Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [verb] [be] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's more , I would have been the first to complain . |
| 2 | I would have been the first to know . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Ears of grain were called apples of gold , which must have been the first gold in the world while metallic gold was unknown … |
| 4 | For her to have vetted the reporters on an individual basis ( which would have been the first instinct of the malai military left to their own devices ) would have caused offence to the point where the exercise would have been counter-productive . |
| 5 | Among the writers who influenced Smith were the Lancashire dialect poet Edwin Waugh , whose poems he liked to read aloud , and Samuel Smiles [ qq.v. ] , who may have been the first man to interest him in technical education . |
| 6 | The 6000 surviving Orang Asli are divisible into three groups : the 2000 nomadic foraging and trading Semang ( who may have been the first to arrive ) , with temporary camps in the forest ; the Senoi with shifting cultivation ; the Proto-Malays who replace the forest with their own gardens and fruit trees . |
| 7 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 8 | Had the score been the other way round I 'm sure we 'd have been the first match to be shown with umpteen repeats of all the goals . |
| 9 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 10 | She learned that Maxim had an elder sister — oddly , she 'd always assumed he must have been the first child — who had married a Quaker school-master and lived up North , had three children and did n't work , ‘ Except at disapproving of the Army , ’ Maxim added . |
| 11 | He must have been the first cousin of Man . |
| 12 | I think he might have been the first black player in England but I know Celtic fielded jazz and rap pioneer Gil Scott Heron 's Dad in the 30s — a great success there apparently . |
| 13 | Some will say that is fortunate , as the weather forecast for the weekend made it seem likely that it could have been the first ‘ one-day ’ final to span three days . |
| 14 | If he 'd been convinced , he would 've been the first to nab the Cap'n . |
| 15 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 16 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 17 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 18 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |
| 19 | A general strike brought Kosovo virtually to a standstill on Sept. 3 , and schools were also boycotted on what should have been the first day of a new school year . |
| 20 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |