Example sentences of "[vb -s] to have [been] [art] 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 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |