Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [modal v] be the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station . |
| 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 | If my memory serves me correctly , my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment said that Humberside would be the first because it has already been the subject of a local government boundary commission report . |
| 4 | To those outside , it is all nonsense — an observation that Ayer would be the first to corroborate . |
| 5 | It was announced in January 1990 that France would be the first Western country to reopen its embassy in Kabul [ see p. 37184 ] and Italy followed suit in July . |
| 6 | THE new Five Nations Cup will be taken to Paris today as the tournament 's organisers gamble that France will be the first to win the trophy . |