Example sentences of "would be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be the second time Mike 's mother had looked after Catherine . |
| 2 | What would be the second one ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Now normal , er now I mean , day would be the ninth of August , would n't it ? |
| 5 | The earliest we could start work would be the 19th September , for which I would need to put out a call during August . |
| 6 | The Harvest Holiday , as the report suggested , would be introduced in late October and would be the first of a series of changes to age-hold British holiday customs . |
| 7 | Under the new régime we would be the first province to disenfranchise them . |
| 8 | This would be the first example of Community rules crossing the Atlantic . |
| 9 | He said it would be the first of a series of ventures which Gooding was discussing with Japanese companies , aimed at bringing research and technology to Britain rather than just final assembly of goods . |
| 10 | Sir : The Archbishop of Canterbury would be the first to agree with you ( 2 October ) that personal generosity is a Christian duty . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 12 | If the Californian clubs progress it would be the first World Series — which starts on 14 October — between the two cities facing each other across San Francisco Bay . |
| 13 | It would be the first major peacekeeping force deployed in the Western Hemisphere . |
| 14 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 15 | It is particularly illogical that this kind of argument should be coming from politicians who , in other contexts , would be the first to argue , and rightly , that Vietnam is not some kind of monster State , but merely a ramshackle and inefficient one that has lost its way . |
| 16 | David had originally made a demo with John Hutchinson , a demo which had been taken to Philips who were releasing in this country for Mercury Records in America , and they all agreed that this would be the first single under that contract . ’ |
| 17 | If you had any doubts about doing anything , she would be the first to say , ‘ Do n't be silly , you can do it . ’ |
| 18 | This would be the first time that Japan 's ‘ self-defence ’ forces had operated far from home . |
| 19 | Dances with Wolves would be the first western since Cimarron ( 1931 ) to win Best Picture . |
| 20 | Kurz had been boasting that they would be the first to climb the face , thus adding to the triumph of the Berlin Olympics . |
| 21 | She would be the first woman Lord Chancellor , but her love of hunting could prove an embarrassment to a party committed to doing away with the sport . |
| 22 | Indeed , if Portsmouth and Sunderland were to defy the odds and emerge victorious from today 's matches against Liverpool and Norwich , it would be the first time in the 120-year history of the tournament that two teams from the Second Division contested the final . |
| 23 | This would be the first public acknowledgment of the role of union leaders in a Labour victory . |
| 24 | The bond issue , which could be launched as early as the end of this year , would be the first capital raising in an east European home market by the bank , which was set up by western governments in London in 1991 to catalyse investment in the former communist countries . |
| 25 | The Bolivians had planned that the king would be the first to be given a coca leaf as he toured Expo , which has pavilions from 112 nations . |
| 26 | To those outside , it is all nonsense — an observation that Ayer would be the first to corroborate . |
| 27 | And it is true that if , for example , there were a library catering specifically for the mentally retarded , this would be the first to be closed because it would create the greatest publicity . |
| 28 | We would have first bite at the cake : ours would be the first footprints in the snow . |
| 29 | As Cliff Bastin later recalled : ‘ Relations between these two had gradually been becoming more and more strained , until it ultimately came to a point at which the question was which of them would be the first to vent his feelings on the other . |
| 30 | Mr Hamill , the masons ' own leading historian , would be the first to acknowledge that there is no certainty concerning the origins of the Craft . |