Example sentences of "[verb] to have be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | Tim Renton could be said to have been the first to grasp this nettle . |
| 3 | Cornford is said to have been the first Englishman to enlist in the International Brigade to fight against Franco . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is said to have been the last contact between the Judaeo-Christian Nazareans and the coalescing orthodoxy based on Pauline thought . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | What is thought to have been the first silk mill in England was built here , in Silk Mill Lane , in 1717 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A SCOTTISH soldier killed by a single shot while on foot patrol in south Armagh yesterday is thought to have been the fourth victim of an Irish Republican Army assassin . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Morgan appears to have been the first case in which the issue was raised in this country . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Accessit Graecarum dictionum interpretatio ( Rouen , 1598 ) , appears to have been the first theorist to state clearly what now seems so obvious a fact . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Marco Polo seems to have been the first European actually to have made it there and back . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 23 | It seems to have been the tenth raid which did the greatest damage , when the ‘ sea island , with its H-jetty was hit and a Korean tanker loading there set on fire . |
| 24 | This seems to have been the last of Hope 's involvement in actual building , and with the founding of the Saturday , he turned to journalism , although in 1865 the Institute of British Architects elected him as their President . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | The daughter told her mother and , said Mr Stevenson , that appeared to have been the last straw for her . |
| 28 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |