Example sentences of "would have be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kepler , a spacecraft to orbit Mars and study the planet 's atmosphere , magnetic field and gravitational field , would have been the first European planetary mission . |
| 2 | He would have been the first person to agree that this is an inadequate label for a process in which some sets of ideas are restructured and some are rejected . |
| 3 | He would have been the first non-Scandinavian to star in a Bergman film , an honour which went eventually to the more laid-back Elliott Gould . |
| 4 | The preceding section ( as Tolkien would have been the first to declare ) probably falls into the perennial academic vice of neatness , over-valuing system and ‘ invention ’ instead of ‘ inspiration ’ . |
| 5 | The giant herbivorous dinosaurs would have been the first to go , as plant matter became scarce , but they would soon be followed by the large carnivores that had preyed upon them . |
| 6 | What 's more , I would have been the first to complain . |
| 7 | Malcolm stoically prevented what would have been the first Test hat-trick in England since 1960 , but soon became Waqar 's record 22nd wicket of the series , leaving Smith a gallant 84 not out in four hours of great determination , to finish on the high note upon which he started the series , since which there had been much disappointment . |
| 8 | Those who were approached would almost certainly have included Trevor Glover of Penguin ( who as a former president of the Australian Book Publishers Association offered unique experience to the post ) , Paula Hahn of Longman ( who , if she had accepted , would have been the first woman president in the PA 's history ) , Simon Masters of Random House , John Clement of Chambers , Philip Sturrock of Cassell , David Young of HarperCollins , and the current treasurer , Philip Kogan of Kogan Page . |
| 9 | As Branson would have been the first to acknowledge , common sense dictated that he avoid it at all costs . |
| 10 | I would have been the first to know . ’ |
| 11 | For her to have vetted the reporters on an individual basis ( which would have been the first instinct of the malai military left to their own devices ) would have caused offence to the point where the exercise would have been counter-productive . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |
| 14 | ‘ It is 30 years since my father 's first victory here and I am sure he would have been the first to have congratulated Ayrton on breaking his record of five wins . |
| 15 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 16 | Yeah I suppose in the country too there Kirkwall would have been the first Kirkwall or Stromness probably Kirkwall would have been the first place where the accents would have been going to go . |
| 17 | Because I mean that would have been the first job offer . |
| 18 | P C would have been the first man into the flat and he was carrying the shield that has been mentioned earlier . |
| 19 | Shares were expected to plummet , and with Aerospace ripe for takeover , Rover would have been the first to be sold off . |
| 20 | The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship . |
| 21 | For such people any contact with the Court would have been the ultimate in defilement — though it should be noted that some of the husbands showed less scruple in accepting governmental places , even to the extent of standing for elections and taking the oath of loyalty to the Emperor and the Constitution . |
| 22 | ‘ It would have been the best thing you could ever have done for me . |
| 23 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 24 | A pail of ice-cold water over the pair of them would have been the best idea . |
| 25 | At the time it would have been the only glittering example of this technique north of the Alps . |
| 26 | The beginning of civilisation was almost certainly a mental development which came long before it affected man 's physical abilities , and it could well have been the moment when for the first time , a primitive creature found that he could override and control the instinctive urge to act , which up to that time would have been the only source of motivation . |
| 27 | Moreover , the merged company would have been the only commuter manufacturer covering the whole range of commuter aircraft . |
| 28 | William and Mary Ann Titford enjoyed no such luxury — but then they were among the youngest people in the street , and their daughter Grace Beatrice , born in 1883 , would have been the only baby crying down Brunswick Place in that year — much to the consternation of the local worthies , no doubt : |
| 29 | They would have been the only outward sign of strain as her voice continued to keep its same even tenor , its same quiet courtesy . |
| 30 | Woolwich would have expected any refusal of payment to lead to collection proceedings which would have been gravely embarrassing for Woolwich , the more so as it would have been the only building society refusing to pay . |