Example sentences of "have been the [num ord] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shares were expected to plummet , and with Aerospace ripe for takeover , Rover would have been the first to be sold off . |
| 2 | If that had been done by a chief inspector of a Labour local authority for a Labour think tank , Conservative Members would have been the first on their feet to complain about Mr. Burchall . |
| 3 | The irony is , Juice could have been the first from the starting blocks , as he explains from an unstreet sofa in a chintz sitting room in Soho 's exclusive Hazlitt 's Hotel . |
| 4 | Max Beerbohm 's generation must have been the last to which the delicious syllabub was a familiar childhood treat . |
| 5 | Can not the right hon. Gentleman accept that the Para battalions should have been the last to be cut , and that , if cuts must be made , they should be made on the basis of operational effectiveness , not political expediency ? |
| 6 | No should have been the fourteenth of January . |