Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] been the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |