Example sentences of "[modal v] have [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seaman should have saved the first goal , but did make a two world class saves against Berkamp and Rikaard . |
| 2 | By now John should have become the first 40-year-old to break four minutes for the mile . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | On retiring to bed Vic 's last action is normally to detach a book from Marjorie 's nerveless fingers , tuck her arms under the covers and turn out her bedside lamp , but he must have neglected the first of these chores last night , or perhaps Enjoy Your Menopause was concealed under the coverlet . |
| 5 | We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there . |
| 6 | You 'll have to supply the first two for now , but we have made a start with the paper work . |
| 7 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 8 | He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound . |
| 9 | 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 ! |
| 10 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I could n't go without the gear , so I 'd have missed the first day . |
| 13 | ‘ I may have to miss the first game but I 'm hoping to get myself a boot made for my left foot with a steel plate in it to protect the toe so that I can practice as soon as I get to India . ’ |
| 14 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Visitors may have drawn the first prototypes , for some purpose from to themselves . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He would have become the first show jumper to win more than £1 million in prize money : at present his total earnings are about £50,000 short of that . |
| 19 | Lawrence would have preferred the first leg on Sunday , March 1 . |
| 20 | I could pay , I would have to pay the first eighty somewhat and I would have to pay the first ninety , ninety somewhat on a pair of glasses |
| 21 | I could pay , I would have to pay the first eighty somewhat and I would have to pay the first ninety , ninety somewhat on a pair of glasses |
| 22 | But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second . |
| 23 | But for Whelan 's late goal , Wembley would have staged the first all-Second Division FA Cup Final on May 9 . |
| 24 | But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick . |
| 25 | He says now that if he 'd known what it would involve he would have taken the first plane out of town , but I was hugely relieved when he agreed . |
| 26 | BY the time you read this article we shall have completed the first training workshop on T.Q.M. designed for directors and a number of senior managers . |
| 27 | ‘ You will have guessed the first , ’ he resumed , masticating the thick coils of smoke , ‘ namely that I wished to inculcate you a little further in the understanding of my true nature , a little further but not too far — keep 'em guessing is my motto . |
| 28 | When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice . |
| 29 | Erm so federalism is a fairly important principle in American government and that principle , essentially , is , and most of you I hope will have done the first year course politics and policy making where I talked about federalism in general terms that federalism is based upon the notions that in the same territory you can have more than one government and that those governments er are of equal status . |
| 30 | Dr Yun-Cheung Kong at the Chinese University predicts that , within a year , scientists will have isolated the first natural contraceptive chemical . |