Example sentences of "the first meeting of " in BNC.

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1 The most important of these was at Amsterdam for the first meeting of the World Council of Churches 1948 .
2 Mr Alastair Burt , MP for Bury North , told the first meeting of the committee examining the bill , that no one knew if it would be a disincentive or not .
3 The first meeting of the Social Security Committee was set for Wednesday 6 February .
4 The first meeting of its Advisory Committee , from 29 September to 3 October 1980 , was therefore held at Uig , on the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles .
5 It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) .
6 In the case of parish , town or community councillor the declaration must be made before or at the first meeting of the council after his election , or if the council at that meeting so permits , before or at a later meeting fixed by the council .
7 See also Mr Blunderum 's paper on ‘ the last moments of the learned pig ’ in the ‘ Full Report of the First Meeting of the Mudfog Association ’ ( MUDFOG PAPERS ) .
8 The first meeting of Sunday School teachers was held on Wednesday 25 September 1867 in the home of Mr James Johnston of Edenderry at ‘ half past six o'clock ’ , beginning with tea .
9 Mr James Johnston , in whose house the first meeting of Sunday School teachers took place , was in real terms , the most generous benefactor Edenderry Church has ever had .
10 WE hear that there was a big attendance at the first meeting of the new Basingstoke branch of the League Against Cruel Sports , when the League 's information officer , Kevin Flack , told them : ‘ I believe that most people are opposed to hunting but it has been recent antics of the Quorn Hunt and publicity from the MacNamara Bill that has convinced them that something has to be done to put an end to their activities . ’
11 Indeed , he was extremely furious and led the fight to establish a new body and was present at the first meeting of the British Deaf and Dumb Association in Leeds in 1890 .
12 But for many , Cosford will always be the home of British indoor athletics , and the first meeting of any year is always the Cosford Games .
13 These problems were discussed at the first meeting of the Montreal Protocol Parties in Helsinki in May 1989 .
14 ( Harness racing , it said in brackets , would hold the first meeting of its winter season the following Sunday . )
15 The first meeting of what is now the oldest body of archers in the United Kingdom was held at Scorton on the 14th May 1673 .
16 The motion was unanimously adopted and the first meeting of the syndicat took place on 4 November 1882 when twenty-two houses were represented .
17 The first meeting of the committee received a resolution from a conference held under the auspices of the society and the Canning Town branch of the guild which rejoiced in the wider powers given under the act , and urged the council to ‘ take steps to exercise any , or all of the powers given , and especially that steps be taken as soon as possible to establish a creche or day nursery in the southern part of the borough ’ ( Maternity and Child Welfare Committee Minutes 20 November 18 ) .
18 It was the first meeting of the Irish Republican Socialist Party of which Bernadette Devlin was a founder member .
19 ARTS provision in north-east Essex entered a new era yesterday with the first meeting of a trust to promote painting and sculpture in the area .
20 A month ago he chaired the first meeting of the ‘ great and the good ’ who make up the Cairngorms Working Party .
21 SIX mums and their 18 babies yesterday attended the first meeting of a help group set up in Nottingham for mothers of triplets .
22 At the end of May the first meeting of the London and South East branch of the S.D.R.R.S. was held in the Camden Irish Centre and it is hoped that this branch and its members will make a valuable contribution to the restoration effort .
23 Project Blaenau , as the F.R. called it , grew rapidly from the first meeting of the three-man ‘ Communications and Action Panel ’ in early 1980 and in the two years leading up to the opening , over 70 mini projects were designed and constructed by a combination of volunteers and paid staff .
24 The first meeting of the Association will probably take place in Barcelona , Spain , in June 1993 at the meeting of the organisation of Ibero-american researchers .
25 The first meeting of the Bedford Public Assistance Committee took place at the Shire Hall on November 2nd 1929 .
26 At the first meeting of the Central Authority , Shinwell had told Citrine and his colleagues that a reasonable aim would be to meet full demand by 1951 ‘ if that was at all possible ’ in the light of other national investment demands .
27 On 20 June 1961 Pope John addressed the first meeting of the central commission .
28 Yesterday saw the first meeting of North Essex Health Authority , which replaces the consortium made up of the old north east , mid and west Essex district health authorities .
29 At the first meeting of the new cabinet , Bell was surprised and mildly irritated to be repeatedly told , first by Meese and then by the president , of the need for teamwork .
30 Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) .
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