Example sentences of "may be [vb pp] [prep] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | This contribution to the accumulating ‘ goodness ’ may be regarded as the first which is not due to the ruthless survival laws which belong to the second period of this book . |
| 2 | It was not the first African paper , although nowadays some Tanzanians think that it was ; nevertheless it is the only one whose direct descendants are still in existence , and may be regarded as the first successful , viable paper ( that term has to be used in a relative sense ) edited and produced by Africans . |
| 3 | In so far as it explained his personal ideology to the French people , it may be regarded as the first speech of de Gaulle the politician , as opposed to de Gaulle the symbol . |
| 4 | Selection of a partner may be based in the first place largely on feeling for or about a parent . |
| 5 | Among the Buid , momentary expressions of anger may be viewed in the first instance as indicative of a momentary desire to harm another , but if such conduct becomes persistent or habitual it is almost always reinterpreted as being caused by hostile mystical forces and thus as not being under the deliberate control of the individual . |
| 6 | Drainage may also be necessary and a pioneer crop may be required in the first year . |
| 7 | This immediate post-war shortage ushered in what may be identified as the first phase of the emergence of headhunting . |