Example sentences of "may [be] [vb pp] as the [num ord] " 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 | This may be regarded as the last fling of this relationship . |
| 5 | This immediate post-war shortage ushered in what may be identified as the first phase of the emergence of headhunting . |