Example sentences of "be hold [prep] the first [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of competition in a new music competition to be held for the first time this year . |
| 2 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of music in a competition to be held for the first time . |
| 3 | THE Grampian Piers Race , for dinghies , multi-hulls , windsurfers and water-skiers , will be held for the first time on Saturday , 7 August . |
| 4 | As usual our winter meetings will be held on the first Friday of each month , starting on the 6th of September at 7.30 p.m. at the Community College . |
| 5 | The clothing bank will be held on the first Thursday of every month . |
| 6 | In response the government , eager to distance itself from the ruling FLN , which was itself in disarray [ see pp. 37628 ; 37795-96 ] , and secure its own survival , promised that free and open parliamentary elections would be held in the first half of 1991 . |
| 7 | Moi gave no indication of the date of a general election , but there was general expectation that polls would be held in the first half of 1992 . |
| 8 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |
| 9 | According to a timetable finalized the following month , the constitution would be amended by April 1991 and multiparty elections would be held in the first quarter of 1992 . |
| 10 | Popular elections for the executive President , who serves for a maximum of two consecutive five-year terms , were held for the first time in December 1990 . |
| 11 | Following political reforms in May 1990 which abolished the leading role of the MPRP , multiparty elections were held for the first time in July 1990 , to the Little and Great Hurals , and to local Hurals in the 18 provinces and three municipalities [ see pp. 37609-10 ; p. 37656 ] . |
| 12 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
| 13 | In 1968 , President Kaunda addressed the International press Institute 's annual assembly , then being held for the first time in an independent , black-ruled African nation : African countries , he said , had ‘ gone out of their way ’ to encourage the foreign press to report African affairs . |
| 14 | The previous November , the government had assented to the idea of an annual White Paper on expenditure and a debate , the paper being published and the debate being held for the first time in the winter of 1969–70 . |
| 15 | In many areas the Hearing is held on the first working day after the removal of the child . |
| 16 | In the first case , the conveyance should be prepared and executed in triplicate ( or there should be examined copies ) so that the original is held by the first mortgagee , the husband has a record of the indemnity and release given and the second mortgagee also has a record of the transfer . |
| 17 | Steam days are held on the first Saturday of each month from April to October when as many as possible of the exhibits are operated and many additional attractions are provided . |
| 18 | This is not wholly satisfactory , as often the terms of the second mortgage are not sufficiently clear for the husband to enforce them ; it necessitates a separate form of receipt on redemption ; and it leaves the husband effectively without any title documents ( as these are held by the first mortgagee ) although he can of course have marked abstracts . |
| 19 | A general election under proportional representation was held for the first time on Feb. 15 , 1989 , the UNP winning a comfortable 25-seat majority [ see pp. 36467-68 ] . |
| 20 | The event was held for the first time at the new Purdysburn Hospital Equestrian Centre outside Belfast . |
| 21 | 1839 Henley Regatta was held for the first time . |