Example sentences of "[noun sg] to have [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The colt is the only horse to have beaten the flying Arazi and is a stablemate of Tertian , the 6–1 favourite for the 2,000 Guineas on May 2 . |
| 2 | Is my child to have taken the first step with this opera for nothing … . |
| 3 | In this there is a parallel , by no means fanciful , with the motor car — surely the only product that might challenge TV 's claim to have made the greatest difference to most people 's daily lives between 1945 and 1990 . |
| 4 | There has been much more detailed study of the pre-revolutionary economy , of Russia 's claim to have entered the imperialist phase of capitalism . |
| 5 | For Sartre ‘ human history ’ was identified with the history of the West , and it was for this reason that Lévi-Strauss contested Sartre 's claim to have established the human foundation of ‘ a structural , historical anthropology ’ for Marxism . |
| 6 | Though Hobbes had already made enemies of John Wallis and Seth Ward , two of its founder members , over his claim to have solved the geometrical problem of squaring the circle , it was at least partly due to his association in the popular mind with a materialistic atheism that he never became a Fellow . |
| 7 | Bazin 's inauguration on June 19 was boycotted by local diplomats but was attended by the papal nuncio ( the Vatican being the only state to have recognized the army-backed regime ) . |
| 8 | Apart from the destruction of the Channel ports , the greatest amusement of 1939 for English listeners lay in the increasingly desperate claims of the German radio to have sunk the aircraft-carrier Ark Royal , the only modern carrier in the Royal Navy at the outbreak of war . |
| 9 | Indeed , we are the only party to have made the financial provision to ensure that that happens . |