Example sentences of "[verb] have been the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is said to have been the first large bridge in the country made with a level roadway ( i.e. not rising towards the crown ) . |
| 2 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 3 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 4 | His briskness of pace off the pitch became legendary , and he is said to have been the first bowler deliberately to have deployed the seam in his technique . |
| 5 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 6 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 7 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 8 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 9 | Drawing the assembled crowds ’ attention to the Norseman 's pedigree , Bob pointed out that it is thought to have been the first aircraft to land on the Normandy beaches during D-Day , the American fighter ace Screwball Beurling was killed in Italy whilst ferrying a Norseman to the Israelis and of course there is the legend that has built up surrounding the mysterious disappearance of bandleader Major Glenn Miller in December 1944 , after taking-off in a Norseman from Twinwoods airfield , near Bedford , England , bound for Paris , never to be seen again . |
| 10 | The deceased 's closest friend at the time of his death appears to have been the first defendant , a man now in his forties , who , when giving evidence , described himself as an unemployed seaman . |
| 11 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 12 | This fact , together with the facts mentioned above , that Fahreddin Acemi appears to have been the first to hold the office of Mufti without an accompanying kadilik and to have been the first to receive a salary specifically in respect of the Muftilik , makes it a reasonable assumption that he was the first Mufti in the sense commonly understood in later times . |
| 13 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 14 | Reputed to have been the first man to fly under a bridge , Thaw had the face , physique and drinking habits of a Hemingway ; after being wounded , his arm froze — to the rough mirth of the squadron — permanently in the crooked position . |
| 15 | The US scientist Ronald Bracewell seems to have been the first to have suggested that sending or listening for radio signals is a haphazard business and almost certainly doomed to failure , because the task of covering the millions of ‘ likely ’ stars is well-nigh impossible . |
| 16 | A question which still greatly puzzles utilitarian thinkers , on which Sidgwick seems to have been the first to touch , is whether the utilitarian goal is the maximisation of total or of average welfare . |
| 17 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 18 | This seems to have been the first occasion on which a British government 's annual budget was presented , or perceived , as an instrument for the redistribution of income . |
| 19 | He observed the Celts with care and seems to have been the first to find them witty : " pleraque Gallia duas res industriosissime persequitur , rem militarem et argute loqui " ( fr. 34 Peter ) . |
| 20 | In Britain Lord Clarendon in the 1860s seems to have been the first foreign secretary to apply systematically the principle of seniority in the appointment of attachés ; and from that decade onwards heads of British missions abroad were expected to report each year on the conduct and abilites of those under their control . |
| 21 | The name most associated with long-wave theories is Kondratiev , a Soviet economist , who is widely believed to have been the first to develop the theory . |
| 22 | The decision was believed to have been the first time that a US court had extended prisoner of war status to a convicted criminal . |
| 23 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |