Example sentences of "would [be] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be the first opportunity that your potential client has to meet you , remember first impressions do count . |
| 2 | A partial answer might be that he was confident at the time that Argentina would be the first country to exploit atomic energy for industrial purposes . |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia would be the first country to withdraw from this system and would set its own exchange rates after a mandatory three-month delay . |
| 4 | Establishing a sequence for the material would be the first problem . |
| 5 | He would be the first boy to land on the moon . |
| 6 | He may not fancy it , but it 's a safe bet that he would be the first man to do it . |
| 7 | He would be the first name on my team sheet for as long as he continues to keep fit . |
| 8 | The Reporter would be the first person to whom any child referrals would be made . |
| 9 | ‘ If I was out of work I 'm sure Denis would be the first person to try and help me . |
| 10 | ‘ If I were on holiday , Nigel would be the first person I 'd contact when I got back . |
| 11 | My particular role erm in the operation was to carry one of the ballistic shields erm and I also erm during the briefing was informed that I would be the first person through the front door and consequent consequently to the door of the master bedroom . |
| 12 | ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm . |
| 13 | The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five . |
| 14 | Right , so , here we go then , let's look at step one the open right so , okay so what would be the first part of this particular sales process ? |
| 15 | Terence Blacker had made a small bet with himself that he would be the first speaker to mention children 's books : he won . |
| 16 | Men from these Companies would be the first commando soldiers to fight a prolonged guerrilla war , not in the Middle East but in defence of the approaches to their homeland . |
| 17 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 18 | I never intended to imply that I would be the first artist to employ hanging cloth ( my use of Walter Benjamin necessitated for this kind of work that I block the aura of the collection and re-route it toward another kind of signification , as well as reference a museum 's depot ) but I am confident that anyone who has visited my installation comes away knowing what my contribution is . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the job was beginning to carry its own very real status ; Benjamin James would be the first member of his branch of the family ever to have a ‘ career ’ in anything like the modern sense of the word . |
| 20 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 21 | The ailing US economy would be the first hurdle , with resentment that foreign firms have destroyed American employment prospects . |
| 22 | I 'll tell you something , if I it would be the first cruise liner I could find and I 'd be away and I |
| 23 | Perhaps if we can parody the eight gramophone records , and ask the question , ‘ If you were cast away on a desert island , which eight plants would you wish to have with you ? ’ there is no doubt that the rose would be the first choice for most people . |
| 24 | Indeed , well before it assembled , the governments involved had been quite aware that quarrels over precedence would be the first obstacle to peace-making and by no means the least serious . |
| 25 | I was just trying work out when Robert left school and whether he would be the first lot , but he wo n't be . |
| 26 | Ultimately , Harris conceded that if this was the Air Ministry 's will , the addition to the Command would be called the Pathfinder Force and demanded Bennett would be the first Commandant . |
| 27 | If the Californian clubs progress it would be the first World Series — which starts on 14 October — between the two cities facing each other across San Francisco Bay . |
| 28 | Now in the period that I come into it would be the First World War , when we had er , of course in these days , the thing we always , to look at the motor trade then , it was a follow up from the carriage trade . |
| 29 | Under the new régime we would be the first province to disenfranchise them . |
| 30 | Its supporters claim that the first would be the first step towards a test reactor that would burn plasma for long periods . |