Example sentences of "may [verb] be the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Jesus may have been the first man who understood the power of some actions . |
| 2 | Among the writers who influenced Smith were the Lancashire dialect poet Edwin Waugh , whose poems he liked to read aloud , and Samuel Smiles [ qq.v. ] , who may have been the first man to interest him in technical education . |
| 3 | Previous popes had been in France , and the teaching of the school of St Victor in Paris and of Peter Abelard was known to them , but Innocent III may have been the first pope to have studied at the Paris schools . |
| 4 | A teenager has told police she may have been the first victim of a man who 's attacked two women in recent months . |
| 5 | Or the vendor may have been the second defendant , also called Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 23 September 1988 and to which company all the assets of the U.K. Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. had , following an agreement of 26 October 1988 , been transferred . |
| 6 | And yet insiders think this may have been the last match of its kind , the end of an era . |