Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] for the first " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | It could well be that an Australian will win for the first time . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |