Example sentences of "[noun sg] met for the " in BNC.

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1 Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair .
2 The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 .
3 The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future .
4 So to New York , where the world of women 's tennis met for the Virginia Slims Championships to a background of political ferment , following my disclosure in The Daily Telegraph , that , like the men three years earlier , the women — or at least the WTA board — felt they were also ready to declare UDI .
5 The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it .
6 This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities .
7 The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 .
8 When the new Assembly met for the first time on Sept. 24 , seven opposition members refused to take their seats , claiming that the election had been rigged .
9 The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results .
10 The new Cabinet met for the first time on June 12 and Shamir attempted to head off Arab-led calls for a special UN Security Council team to visit the West Bank and Gaza [ see p. 37443 ] by proposing that a UN envoy , Jean-Claude Aimé , should visit the area in their place .
11 On the twenty fourth July nineteen ninety one the new resources and policy grant sub-committee met for the first time and considered a number of applications including one from your organisation .
12 On 8 May this year the Committee debating the Bill met for the 53rd and final day under the chairmanship — on that occasion — of my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) .
13 The seven-member committee of the Arab League met for the first time in Cairo , also on April 7 .
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