Example sentences of "held [pron] first [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until 1881 that the world 's Methodists held their first Oecumenical Conference in London 's City Road Chapel : the suggestion had come from America . |
| 2 | On April 27th-29th , the two countries held their first almost-official talks , in Singapore . |
| 3 | The Mediterranean non aligned states held their first regional conference in Malta in 1984 ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 4 | — DEERNESS Valley Pool League held their first annual presentation night at Esh Winning Football Club and reported a successful season by the six teams taking part . |
| 5 | Japanese and Russian officials in charge of diplomatic and defence policies held their first bilateral policy planning meeting on June 14-15 at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow . |
| 6 | This was set up on 10 February in Dresden when delegates from Russia and Germany held their first joint session to discuss the restitution of art treasures missing since World War II . |
| 7 | Celebrating colour : 70 years after the Scottish Colourists held their first joint exhibition in London , paintings by Peploe , Hunter , Cadell and Fergusson are being shown at the MacRobert Gallery , Stirling University , writes Allen Wright . |
| 8 | Later , Scotland United held their first public rally and attracted an estimated 3,000 people to George Square in the centre of Glasgow . |
| 9 | On Nov. 12 Taiwan and Japan held their first open Cabinet-level meeting since Japan restored relations with China in 1972 . |
| 10 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 11 | In May 1917 the League of Nations Society held its first major public meeting , with a galaxy of Establishment speakers . |
| 12 | In the autumn , ACE held its first major conference in Seville in order to take stock of the work achieved to date and assess the state of the profession ( by way of national reports ) on the eve of the opening of the Single European Market . |
| 13 | The UNC held its first annual convention on July 22 , 1990 , when Panday was elected unopposed as leader , with Rampersad Parasram as chairman and Kelvin Ramnath as general secretary . |
| 14 | The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) held its first annual meeting in Budapest , Hungary , on April 13-14 . |
| 15 | But Sri Lanka , which held its first general election with universal suffrage under the British in 1931 , has stuck doggedly to the system . |
| 16 | On May 23-30 Fiji held its first general election since the two military coups of 1987 [ see pp. 35251-55 ; 35567-70 ] . |
| 17 | The Institute 's Council held its first open meeting last month , in front of representatives from the national and accountancy press . |
| 18 | In November 1919 , West Ham held its first municipal election for six years . |
| 19 | The newly elected 14th central committee held its first plenary session on Oct. 19 , when Jiang Zemin was formally re-elected as party general secretary . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In March Benin held its first multi-party presidential contest , amid north-south rivalries similar to those in neighbouring Togo . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Although headed by opposition MPs , it has grown independently on a national basis and held its first large scale rally in Colombo in late February 1991 . |
| 24 | THE two foot gauge Vobster Light Railway , ‘ the new railway with a long history ’ , held its first public event on Sunday , July 19th . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On Dec. 11 , 1989 , the Polish Socialist Party-Democratic Revolution ( PPS-RD ) held its first national congress in Wroclaw , adopting party statutes and a programme of policies based on the goal of a self-governing alternative system . |
| 27 | On March 16-17 the National Salvation Front ( NSF ) held its first national convention since coming to power in December 1989 . |
| 28 | The ruling Equatorial Guinea Democratic Party ( PDGE ) , the sole legal party , held its first national extraordinary congress in Bata on Aug. 4-6 . |
| 29 | In March 1991 Vietnam held its first foreign investment forum . |
| 30 | or , John ( c. 1610–1665 ) , naval officer , of Plymouth , held his first naval command in 1649 , in the newly remodelled navy of the Commonwealth . |