Example sentences of "[noun prp] [modal v] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ISO should reveal for the first time the fine details of star-birth . |
| 2 | While NATO must maintain for the foreseeable future a mix of nuclear and conventional forces in Europe , the declaration reaffirmed that no weapons would ever be used except in self-defence and that the lowest and most stable level of nuclear forces to prevent war was sought . |
| 3 | Rod , who hoped Renee would doze for the whole flight , was on his way to record an album . |
| 4 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 5 | Once again Charles was astonished how easily Malcolm would fall for the oldest cons in the business . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This side of the issue was entrusted to Lord Brabazon of Tara , whose committee was invited to make recommendations on the types of aircraft that Britain should produce for the postwar period . |
| 8 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 11 | Steve Jones will run for the first time in the Morpeth-Newcastle , Britain 's oldest road race , on New Year 's Day .. |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Swansea 's Clement will train for the first time since being sidelined for more than six weeks with a stress fracture of the shin . |
| 14 | And this difference between them and such initially sympathetic Englishmen as Hewlett and Newbolt went very deep ; for ultimately it meant that , when the question arose whether the artist 's first responsibility was to his art ( his trade ) or to his society , Pound and Lewis and Ford would opt for the first alternative , Hewlett and Newbolt for the second — as indeed we soon see them doing when both of them answer the call of First World War patriotism by writing moralebuilding poems and stories . |