Example sentences of "[pers pn] may [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The press release the editors sent me was acceptable , but I may have been the only person to get it . |
| 2 | This project , we 're very pleased , is directed by Doctor Eric Briot , you may remember was the Chief Education Officer in London until he retired and came to lead this project , and a man of very great standing in education field , and what he 's looking at is the effect of the falling school populations , which is already hitting primary schools , on these large comprehensives that we 've created . |
| 3 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 4 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |
| 5 | They may have been the gigantic reptilian analogue of the elephant , and it may be no coincidence that the elephant also has its nasal openings on top of the skull , with the nostrils in this case sited at the end of the trunk it has been suggested that some sauropods may have had a proboscis of some sort . |
| 6 | Nevertheless it tasted excellent , or it may have been the dry French cider from my waterbottle that improved the taste . |
| 7 | The Tropicana experience began for me as soon as I arrived … it may have been the small hours yet the reception staff were still delighted to greet the new arrivals . |
| 8 | With the constructors number 501 , it may have been the only aircraft built . |
| 9 | MYSELF : It may have been the isolated act of a madman , but that does n't mean it 's isolated in history . |
| 10 | ‘ It may have been the innermost box or it may have overlapped with other sub-boxes , but it was within the compartment , yes . ’ |
| 11 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 12 | It may have been the Anglian advance towards Stirling which tempted Domnall Brecc , grandson of Áedán , son of Gabrán , and king of Scottish Dál Riata , to attack the Strathclyde Britons in 642 ( AU s.a. 641 : AT p.186 : CA p.144 ) . |
| 13 | It may have been the Red Trafalgar . ’ |
| 14 | Nothing is known for certain about his parentage and birth , but David Fallows has suggested that he may have been the same man as John Boddenham , born in Oxford in 1422 , chorister and scholar of Winchester College and later scholar and fellow of New College , Oxford . |
| 15 | It was widely believed the committee wanted him , but insiders pointed out he may have been the wrong man for the job . |