Example sentences of "that [noun prp] would be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I cherish his and your friendship , and I can say in all sincerity that Cork would be the poorer without you . |
| 2 | President Patricio Aylwin Azócar was told by US President Bush on May 14 , during his first official visit to the USA since taking office in March 1990 , that Chile would be the next country with which the US would negotiate a free trade agreement , after the completion of talks between the USA , Mexico and Canada to establish a North American Free Trade Area ( NAFTA — see p. 38761 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the Edinburgh summit Mr Major promoted an agreement that Strasbourg would be the permanent seat of the parliament . |
| 5 | However , on timing it was suggested that September/October would be the best time to build the pressure , with the expectation of an autumn budget statement at the end of November . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | To those outside , it is all nonsense — an observation that Ayer would be the first to corroborate . |
| 8 | While there was no doubt that Roosevelt would be the Democratic candidate that year , the choice of his running-mate caused greater controversy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There may always have been some in Mercia who did not approve of Offa 's Lichfield policy and the realization that London would be the ideal centre for the southern provinces offered a neat solution to a tangled ecclesiastical and political situation . |
| 11 | And our prediction that the USSR would be the most troubled nation of the 1980s was quite prescient — we said specifically in those pre-Gorbachev days that Poland would be the thin end of the wedge and that the resurgence of ethnic identity would cause a flashpoint , especially among Muslims . |