Example sentences of "may have [verb] [art] first " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I may have to miss the first game but I 'm hoping to get myself a boot made for my left foot with a steel plate in it to protect the toe so that I can practice as soon as I get to India . ’ |
2 | Protests like these may have won a first round victory for the hospital , but campaigners say the fight continues . |
3 | And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore . |
4 | Minister of Science William Waldegrave , may have released the first major UK government White Paper on science and technology for over 10 years yesterday , but information technology professionals need n't hold their breath : while Waldegrave seems to think we should count ourselves lucky because we 've got our own research council for the first time , it would be more truthful to say we 've been stuffed into the miscellaneous section of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council , along with the electronic , electrical and communications industries ; our body , together with the Particle Physics and Sciences Research Council , will replace the Science and Engineering Research Council ; as a result , we will benefit ‘ from the same building of bridges between research bodies and industry ’ as the rest of the reorganised bodies and should experience interaction at an earlier stage — on the Japanese and German model . |
5 | Visitors may have drawn the first prototypes , for some purpose from to themselves . ’ |