Example sentences of "[vb mod] have [vb pp] [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By now John should have become the first 40-year-old to break four minutes for the mile . |
| 2 | It is hardly surprising that the reign of Napoleon I , an era of warfare on an unprecedented scale , should have seen the first tentative moves in this direction . |
| 3 | Built with folding wings ( originally to enable it to be hidden in caves ) , had the mighty carrier Shinano survived long enough , Japan could have fielded the first carrier-based jet strike force with Kitsukas ! |
| 4 | If subjects rated these junctions as relatively low on accident estimates then the types of transfer bias which Poulton ( 1989 , p.238 ) describes could have caused the first few low judgments to inflate subsequent ones . |
| 5 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
| 6 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
| 7 | The measure , which would have involved the first overseas deployment of Japanese forces since 1945 , was condemned by the opposition as unconstitutional ( it was argued that Article 9 of Japan 's post-war Constitution prohibited the country 's participation in acts of collective defence ) and by the governments of many of Japan 's neighbours as an undesirable manifestation of nascent Japanese militarism . |
| 8 | But for Whelan 's late goal , Wembley would have staged the first all-Second Division FA Cup Final on May 9 . |
| 9 | Dr Yun-Cheung Kong at the Chinese University predicts that , within a year , scientists will have isolated the first natural contraceptive chemical . |