Example sentences of "[vb infin] for [art] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although a total prohibition exists for the third category above , special circumstances may exist for the first two services . |
| 2 | Active or REM sleep onset will persist for the first twelve months of life in normal infants . |
| 3 | As soon as the passport came through , Coleman should wait for the first convenient lull in the fighting in Beirut and then leave immediately . |
| 4 | Trees grown on MM111 rootstock will reach a robust 18–20ft in height , but wo n't crop for the first six years . |
| 5 | Yeah , I did n't smoke for the first six months and then I finished work and I was at home |
| 6 | The CAT scanner which the hospital wants for its X ray department will cost £600,000 to buy and run for the first few years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | If anything it is the managers in family health services authorities and the NHS who have failed to anticipate and plan for the first three of these contingencies that has caused the current workload crisis . |
| 9 | The Department of Industry will pay for the first three years , but after that expects FABMS to pay for itself . |
| 10 | The term was for 26 years paying a one-twelfth to the Lord , save for the first six months when no claim would be made . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then there is the maddening fact that , of the five great investigative Ws ( who ? what ? where ? when ? and why ? ) , we can still only account for the first four in the matter of the Watergate break-in . |