Example sentences of "would [vb infin] the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd like the first crack ? ’ |
| 2 | Erm I think I 'd support the first point that we we 're obviously er all in favour well the County Council is certainly in favour of flexibility in terms of addressing the post two thousand er six scenario . |
| 3 | Having a resistivity of some 10MΩ and a permittivity of 3 , it would remain the first choice of insulation for undersea cables until development of para gutta , composed of wax and deproteinised rubber . |
| 4 | The fall of the Manchus in China hinted at the far wider rebellion that would mark the first half of the twentieth century , transforming world political geography from a handful of empires , maps on which only the primary colours were needed to show each domain , to a mass of independent States , more numerous than the ingenuity of any distinguishable colour range . |
| 5 | S. H. We were held responsible for property and we had to go round and test every doorway and that would occupy the first time round — say an hour and a half — and then usually you had to go round and test them a second time , just to make sure . |
| 6 | It had been hoped that the removal of exchange rate fluctuations between EC currencies would constitute the first stage toward monetary union , but the widespread acceptance of floating has made this aim more difficult to achieve , although the European Monetary System has had some success in this respect . |
| 7 | The Ministry of Agriculture said yesterday it was hoped that next week would see the first dairy farms released from the restriction orders . |
| 8 | Rutlish would become the first school to break away from Labour-controlled Merton education authority . |
| 9 | We would ride about a mile to the first field then we would draw the first field . |
| 10 | I would like to avoid defeat partly as it would avoid the first league double against us in three years and to keep the unbeaten run together . |
| 11 | The point of contact with the fable of disembodied consciousness is that thinking has become Raskolnikov 's work , it has almost become Raskolnikov , and if he did and were nothing but this work we would have the first part of Notes from Underground repeated . |
| 12 | Carole would take the first opportunity to get her on her own and have a word with her in private . |
| 13 | ( Harness racing , it said in brackets , would hold the first meeting of its winter season the following Sunday . ) |
| 14 | The finding of high plasma n3 polyunsaturated fatty acids concentrations would support the first part of this hypothesis ; that is , the increase in polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis . |
| 15 | The superstition that the third light from a match brings bad luck apparently originates from the first world war , when German soldiers in the opposite trench would notice the first light , take aim at the second and fire at the third . |