Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [art] first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modest in the sense that he never proclaimed his talents — and they were real and varied : he was , I have heard , a very good businessman , and I know him to have been a first rate chess player and a notable painter . ’ |
| 2 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I consider myself highly privileged to have been the first Minister for consumer protection in a completely independent consumer protection Department . |
| 7 | I would like to have been the first person in the world ’ , she added lightly . |
| 8 | I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN THE FIRST PERSON IN THE WORLD |
| 9 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The decision was believed to have been the first time that a US court had extended prisoner of war status to a convicted criminal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 14 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 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 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |