Example sentences of "[pron] may [vb infin] been the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The 6000 surviving Orang Asli are divisible into three groups : the 2000 nomadic foraging and trading Semang ( who may have been the first to arrive ) , with temporary camps in the forest ; the Senoi with shifting cultivation ; the Proto-Malays who replace the forest with their own gardens and fruit trees . |
| 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 | There was little money available for luxuries , yet in 1928 a group of children from the Royal Cross School for the Deaf , Preston , made what may have been the first ever educational overseas school trip when they went to France and Belgium . |