Example sentences of "[v-ing] been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tendring Council is one of the forerunners in dog control and advice , having been the first authority in Essex to employ a dog warden and introduce dog control byelaws , added Mr Coulter . |
| 2 | Scott and his friend returned year after year in search of poetic treasure , and Scott is recorded as having been the first man ever to tackle the rough tracks into Liddesdale in a carriage . |
| 3 | To Johann Joachim Winckelmann ( 1717–18 ) , son of a Saxon cobbler , who rose to be a friend of cardinals and custodian of their books and antiquities , belongs the honour of having been the first and , in some ways , the most influential of these " thorough-going Romantics " . |
| 4 | Harry had driven his friend over and was in boisterous good spirits at having been the first person to be allowed to take George away from the house . |
| 5 | On Monday 18th June sixty people met in Painters ' Hall in the City to take part in a ‘ tutored wine tasting ’ of sparkling wines , under the most knowledgeable guidance of Pamela Vandyke Price , author and wine journalist of fabulous expertise , whose distinctions include having been the first woman admitted on equal terms into the male-dominated world of wine . |
| 6 | Bert Röling , the Dutch international lawyer who died in early 1985 , having been the last surviving judge from the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo , addressed the nuclear weapons issue as much in terms of purported prudential policy-making as in terms of legal principle . |