Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] for the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Department of Industry will pay for the first three years , but after that expects FABMS to pay for itself . |
| 2 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 3 | How important this single factor is in maintaining traditional agricultural management in the French uplands is impossible to estimate but , if the proposal remains as it is , more small French farms in the LFA may intensify for the first time . |
| 4 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 5 | ISO should reveal for the first time the fine details of star-birth . |
| 6 | At the same time , scientists are building computer models of ocean circulation but full three-dimensional models must wait for the next generation of powerful computers . |
| 7 | The time set for one of the days is midnight , but it is not clear how long the Committee might sit for the first six days . |
| 8 | The sun will set for the last time on RAF Hereford in July 1994 . |
| 9 | The police campaign will continue for the next fortnight . |
| 10 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 11 | ‘ Following this decision , the Community will have for the first time a single framework within which takeovers and mergers of a Community dimension can be dealt with , recognising the importance of maintaining fair competition throughout the single market . ’ |
| 12 | This routine will last for the next twelve weeks . |
| 13 | If it was above £85,000 the owners would qualify for the next band and pay £551 . |
| 14 | The Cabinet will meet for the first time on Wednesday to draw up a programme of legislation for the new session of Parliament , which will last 18 months until the autumn of 1993 . |
| 15 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 16 | Only the top twenty-four scorers would qualify for the last round on Saturday . |
| 17 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 18 | THE Kellogg 's Tour of Britain will start for the first time in Portsmouth and finish in Liverpool after 550 miles ' racing in five days in August . |
| 19 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 20 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 21 | Reform has already begun : this weekend voters could choose for the first time a single named candidate for the lower house , instead of numbers on a party list . |
| 22 | Ejecting a few birds we inspected the inside of the crude habitation where the men would live for the next ten days or more . |
| 23 | As she shares Christmas dinner with her brother Charles , Diana will experience for the first time the trauma she has dreaded since the cracks first showed in her marriage . |
| 24 | A small apple tree , a garden pea or even a strawberry plant pass through various stages during spring and summer and children can look for the first appearance of leaves and flowers and fruit . |
| 25 | Each point on the demand curve shows what the individual would pay for the last unit of purer water . |
| 26 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 27 | Swansea 's Clement will train for the first time since being sidelined for more than six weeks with a stress fracture of the shin . |
| 28 | American soldiers will serve for the first time under a non-American chief , a Turk . |
| 29 | A general election last Thursday would have settled once and for all the political policies that the country will follow for the next few years . |
| 30 | the commentary must say for the first time what had , nonetheless , already been said [ by the original text ] and must tirelessly repeat what had never been said [ by other commentators ] . |