Example sentences of "[noun pl] would be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are , therefore , dealing with last minute ideas and on reflection I am sure that districts would be the first to agree that their desirable costings could suffer refinement without loss of function . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ The neighbouring countries would be the first to suffer from more general sanctions against South Africa , and for very understandable reasons have not imposed them themselves . ’ |
| 4 | When our second child was very ill , the most distressing thought was that total strangers would be the last to touch him . |
| 5 | Those stuck with middle-range properties would be the last to feel the benefits , but with movement above and below the effects would filter through . |
| 6 | In the original sweat spot test the foot was chosen because , impairment being more likely to occur in longer nerve fibres , the lower extremities would be the first to be involved in diabetic autonomic neuropathy . |
| 7 | An evening out of jobs between regions would be the first step in what , in the longer term , should aim to be an almost complete transfer of government jobs from areas of full employment into areas with the highest levels of unemployment . |
| 8 | At each traffic light as the lights turned green , a mass of cyclists would be the first away , with cars , buses , etc , following on behind . |
| 9 | The next likely period for the initiation of planned villages would be the eleventh to mid twelfth centuries , as demonstrated by June Sheppard when she looked at village plans in relation to early fiscal arrangements . |
| 10 | It 's spokesman , Zelda Westmeads , says the children of broken marriages would be the first to benefit from the change . |
| 11 | In his annual State of the Union address to Congress [ see also pp. 38711-12 ] , Bush said that the proposed cuts would be the last of their kind , amounting to US$50,400 million over five years . |
| 12 | On Dec. 28 Deputy Premier and Economic Reform Minister Viktor Pynzenyk pledged that the planned price increases would be the last , and that the measures would reduce inflation from the current monthly rate of 50 per cent to 3 per cent . |
| 13 | Without any ends at all for which to survive life would be , in the strict sense of the words , not worth living , and on this boat a few decencies preserved without regard for consequences would be the last ends left which he values for themselves . |
| 14 | Dances with Wolves would be the first western since Cimarron ( 1931 ) to win Best Picture . |