Example sentences of "to have been the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |
| 3 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | The action was to have been the first brought under the Czech Republic 's software piracy laws . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The contract was to have been the first to be awarded under the new no frills fast track process — but some observers now expect the tender to be scrapped altogether and replaced with a Desktop V tender . |
| 12 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 25 | Harris 's death , scheduled for 3 a.m. on April 3 , was to have been the first execution in the state of California since 1967 . |
| 26 | The decision was believed to have been the first time that a US court had extended prisoner of war status to a convicted criminal . |
| 27 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Wednesday night 's meeting was to have been the first in Arbroath as part of the consultative exercise the board must carry out before implementing changes . |
| 30 | 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 . |