Example sentences of "at [art] first [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A model for achieving a smoke free generation in Europe was proposed at the first European conference on tobacco in 1988 and was supported by the World Health Organisation and British Medical Association . |
| 2 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes and companion Dr Michael Stroud were almost halfway to the South Pole yesterday in their attempt at the first unaided crossing of Antarctica . |
| 3 | Over the years , the VMA gradually became a students ' association and at the first general meeting of its 45th session , on 19 October 1880 , John H. Steel , the secretary and librarian , announced ‘ the Veterinary Medical Association , while having wide sympathies with its members who have become qualified practitioners , is now the Students ’ Society of the largest British Veterinary School' . |
| 4 | One year later in July 1935 , he delivered a major speech at the First International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , 9 and also played a significant role in orchestrating the behind-the-scenes collaboration between communist and non-communist contributors to the congress itself . |
| 5 | The dangers of hepatitis B infection were discussed at the First International Congress on Occupational Health for Healthcare Workers , which was held in Freiburg , Germany in September.The Congress was organised by the International Commission on Occupational Health ( ICOH ) and the Freiburg Institute for Occupational and Social Medicine ( FFAS ) . |
| 6 | Its fragrance is real , and penetrating : but it does not release itself at the first casual opening of the pages . |
| 7 | At the first joint session of both chambers of the Federal Assembly on June 27 , Alexander Dubcek was re-elected Chairman of the Federal Assembly . |
| 8 | Goran Hadzic , leader of the Serbian enclave of Western Slavonia , was elected by 230 votes with six abstentions as Babic 's replacement in Borovo Selo on Feb. 26 at the first joint session of the assemblies of Serbian Krajina , the Autonomous Region of Western Slavonia , and the Serbian Region of Slavonia , Baranja and Western Srem . |
| 9 | Settling back in the office chair at Northwood Stadium in the Potteries town of Hanley , where he works as a recreation assistant , Brannen shrugs his powerful shoulder at the first reverential mention of the decathlon doyen . |
| 10 | A conversation with Lloyd Walters recorded at the first annual meeting of the Association of Pole-lathe Turners , September 1990 . |
| 11 | On May 13 , at the first official meeting between President Idriss Déby and four opposition party leaders , it was suggested that the conference might be held in September . |
| 12 | In spite of the weather conditions 50 bands , travelled to compete at the first outdoor competition of the new season . |
| 13 | Many had favoured Frankfurt , a larger town , a major business centre , and the seat at the first all-German parliament in 1848 . |
| 14 | One of the finest of the towers commemorates Gregorio di Gregorio , a third generation patrician of the early thirteenth century — heir to a succession established at the first high point of San Gimignano 's revived prosperity , in the middle of the twelfth century . |
| 15 | They were present at the first national meeting of indigenous press that we organised in June 1991 , and armed men visit the premises of Etnias magazine without warning . |
| 16 | At the first national conference of the ruling MLSTP , held on Dec. 5-8 , 1989 , delegates proposed the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 17 | Clement Greenberg will be the keynote speaker at the First National Symposium on Criticism in the Craftarts . |
| 18 | At the first steep slope of Great Ararat they tethered their horses to a thorn tree and hobbled them . |
| 19 | At the first public meeting in St Margaret 's Hope , called only two days after the children were taken from their homes , a conscious decision was taken by the parents and the rest of the local community that supported them , to actively' court publicity . |
| 20 | Set up by his guru , James McCloskey , as an offshore Gibraltar corporation , with bank accounts ( Nos. 00569798 and 02843900 ) at the First American Bank of Maryland ( a BCCI subsidiary ) , Condor was to be Coleman 's front for resuming control of Tony Asmar 's network of agents in Lebanon . |
| 21 | After lots of very interesting figures at the first big stopper of the Olympic Eiskanal , the winner was Boris Retzlaf . |
| 22 | On Jan. 28 , at the first ministerial session of the intergovernmental conference on economic and monetary union ( EMU — which had opened in December ) , ministers discussed further proposals by both Spain and France . |
| 23 | I remember his determination at the first exploratory meeting in the upstairs room of a small pub off Victoria Street in London . |