Example sentences of "[pron] first [adj] meeting " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Church of England envoy said : ‘ I had contact with hundreds of people prior to my first face-to-face meeting with the kidnappers in Beirut . |
| 2 | The former Church of England envoy said : ‘ I had contact with hundreds of people prior to my first face-to-face meeting with the kidnappers in Beirut . |
| 3 | Serbs and Croats in Croatia have held their first face-to-face meeting since January . |
| 4 | The two had known each other more than twenty years , ever since their first fateful meeting at one of Old Man Ebert 's parties . |
| 5 | THE legendary ( but subtly different ) charms of Bill Clinton and John Major will have been fully taxed at their first official meeting in Washington yesterday . |
| 6 | The Liberal Democrat MPs , complete with their new faces from Bath , Cheltenham , Devon North and North Cornwall , will hold their first post-election meeting in London on Monday . |
| 7 | The Liberal Democrat MPs , complete with their new faces from Bath , Cheltenham , Devon North and North Cornwall , will hold their first post-election meeting in London on Monday . |
| 8 | In May , government and ANC representatives — in their first formal meeting since the ANC 's founding in 1912 — began " talks about talks " aimed at preparing the way for future negotiations on a constitution [ see p. 37440 ] . |
| 9 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) held its first annual meeting in Budapest , Hungary , on April 13-14 . |
| 10 | It had its first official meeting after a Union talk on heterosexism . |
| 11 | Giving as its reason police brutality against black protesters , in particular at Sebokeng , the ANC broke off its first preliminary meeting with the government , which had been scheduled for April 11 . |
| 12 | At its first public meeting , attended by over 100 members , anger was voiced at the action of the socialist majority on the management committee in rushing the society into all the dangers of party politics ( SE 5 January 18 ) . |
| 13 | A local group has formed to oppose the mining and has held its first public meeting . |
| 14 | The Swansea and Neath Society was founded in December 1822 but made no appeal through a public meeting until January 1826 ; the Manchester Society , although becoming active at the beginning of 1824 , issued no report to the public until March 1827 and had only had its first public meeting on 22 March 1826 . |
| 15 | This grouping of some 600 technocrats published a manifesto calling for the introduction of a multiparty system and held its first public meeting on June 3 . |
| 16 | THE Ceredigion and Mid Wales NHS Trust is to hold its first public meeting on Thursday , June 24 at 7pm in the Lecture Theatre , Postgraduate Centre , Bronglais General Hospital , Aberystwyth , giving the public an opportunity to be kept informed on the key issues which the Trust is currently facing and to hear of proposed new developments in the pipeline . |
| 17 | the real flying machines will be over in Swindon … the Foxhill Track stages its first big meeting of the year … all of Britain 's top Grand Prix riders are racing … |
| 18 | A High Level Working Group ( HLWG ) held its first informal meeting , mandated by the Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Co-Operation Council in December 1991 [ see p. 38669 ] , in Brussels on Jan. 10 . |
| 19 | The dissident group , believed to be 40 in number , which held its first formal meeting on May 26 , was denounced by Army C.-in -C . |
| 20 | The Institute 's Council held its first open meeting last month , in front of representatives from the national and accountancy press . |
| 21 | ACTIUS is to hold its first open meeting in association with the Call Centre Management Conference , and is inviting members and prospective members along to help direct the group 's future direction . |
| 22 | Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 23 | BILL Clinton will fly to Washington today for his first post-election meeting with outgoing president George Bush . |
| 24 | At his first formal meeting with the chairmen after all had been appointed , he outlined how he might achieve the generalisation and standardisation of ‘ better practice ’ : |
| 25 | In May , following these forays , Hitler had his first top-level meeting to discuss the western defences with the Todt Organisation , and plans were begun for the so-called Atlantic Wall , although there already existed a series of defended ports and the original defence arrangements set up when fleets of craft were being assembled for an invasion of England . |
| 26 | ‘ We had our first real meeting in the early 80s . |
| 27 | Yes , that is something that erm we 've erm made quite clear , as a result of our first major meeting , which we held two or three weeks ago , that sex equality , sex stereotyping , are matters that have got to be looked into very carefully . |
| 28 | Our first official meeting was round a huge kitchen table surrounded by dirty dishes and grimy ovens . |
| 29 | During our first informal meeting he spoke chattily of the barrier drawn by other male gynaecologists between their professional response to female patients and their private sexual relationships . |