Example sentences of "to have been the [num ord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For the US or Britain to have been the first to recognize Bao Dai would , said Acheson , have been to give him the kiss of death . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |
| 9 | 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 . |