Example sentences of "[vb base] to be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd like to fight him because he 's undefeated and I want to be the first man to beat him . |
| 2 | ‘ And I want him to win because he 's unbeaten and I want to be the first man to take the H out of Holyfield . ’ |
| 3 | But I want to be the first man to achieve Football League status after a full playing career . |
| 4 | He 'd just become the first Briton to win two world titles on foreign soil and added : ‘ I want to be the first British fighter to win three world titles at different weights . ’ |
| 5 | Both sides want to be the last to put forward a proposal , reckoning that if no rate is set , a court will pin the blame on whoever was last to reject one . |
| 6 | If you want to be the next Harry Craig , send a tape of your playing to I 'm The World 's Worst Guitar Player , The House Of Guitars , 645 Titus Avenue , Rochester , N.Y. 14617 sometime before the end of the year , and the very worst of luck to you … |
| 7 | SOUTH AFRICA hope to be the first country to use television replays to assist the umpires when they play home Tests against India later this year . |
| 8 | Later we hope to be the first offshore contractor with a competent core crew accredited to national standards . |
| 9 | Fragments of papyri from the second millennium BC seem to be the first writings to deal exclusively with the subject matter of dreams , mainly concerning themselves with incest and bestiality with various animals . |
| 10 | And I seem to be the last person to have seen him . ’ |
| 11 | There is ample evidence that those ties remain strong even as the character of networks changes in other ways and thus these basic family links continue to be the first line of defence , the more so because other forms of association may weaken . |
| 12 | They tend to be the first victims of clean-sweep company shake-ups and takeovers . |
| 13 | If British evidence is anything to go by it is often large and relatively dated production units that tend to be the first to close in periods of rationalisation . |
| 14 | You try to be the first to look aside |
| 15 | ‘ We always try to be the first to drop our rates when they are falling , but the last to increase them when they are on their way up , ’ assures Vos . |
| 16 | The long struggle of the provinces against the most powerful ruler in Europe has perhaps the best claim to be the first war of national liberation . |
| 17 | Richard M. Cooper , former archivist of the house of Longman , who published the book , makes the point , however , that a small ‘ privately printed ’ pamphlet published a month or two before The Pencil of Nature contains a single photographic frontispiece ‘ and therefore can perhaps take prior claim to be the first book in the world illustrated by photography , but it did not play the significantly influential part of The Pencil of Nature in establishing photographic illustration . |
| 18 | It does not , of course , have to be the first stage of the drama work . |
| 19 | On the rostrum Joey said : ‘ You really need to be the first man at the Metropole if you want to be first at the finishing line . ’ |
| 20 | Consequently , some first performances also prove to be the last . |