Example sentences of "the first general " in BNC.

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1 When Victor Paige became the first general manager of the health service he found himself in a very different job from any that he or anyone else had occupied before .
2 This time the communist threat has been absent ; this is the first general election in a major European country since the Cold War ended and the Berlin Wall fell .
3 This is the first general Buildings rate increase since 1980 and is necessary due to the rising number and increasing cost of claims since then , in particular those arising from exceptional weather and subsidence .
4 The first general meeting of the College was held at the Blenheim coffee house on 8 April 1791 , under the chairmanship of Granville Penn , supported by Sir William Fordyce , Wm Stone , E. Topham , G.M. Ascough , J. Gretton , G.F. Steward , W.G. Brown , Dr A. Crawford , Dr Wm Drew , Richard Burton , James Burton , Francis Steward , John Baynes , Mr Grosvenor , Mr Peake , Mr Rivers , Mr Reuben Smith .
5 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' .
6 The first general principle of their Handling of Mortgage Arrears code of practice issued in May 1990 was :
7 ‘ We ca n't throw this system away in five years ’ time , like Pearl is now doing with the first general ledger it installed in the mid-eighties . ’
8 Having attended the first General Commissioners ' hearing on 10 April 1991 , the debtor and his accountant failed to appear at the adjourned hearing on 19 June 1991 .
9 So large was the first general edition of 1935 that you should easily find a copy for not more than £10 .
10 Hill reported at the first general meeting that Lord Hamilton and Sir William Birt of the GER Co. had promised to help the Alliance in ‘ every way they could ’ ( SE 14 October 1899 ) .
11 The first General Manager there , Dr Girgis Salama from Egypt , has been asked by Governor Solomon Lar to set up plateau State Television in direct competition with the television station Salama himself had launched .
12 Margaret Iversen 's Alois Riegl : Art History and Theory promises to be the first general introduction to Riegl 's approach to art history , the context of his work and its relevance to contemporary critical thinking ( £22.50 ) .
13 The deadline was June 11th 1803 , and on July 7th 1801 the first general meeting of subscribers was held in the Session House in Bedford .
14 The first general congregation , or working session , was on Saturday , 13 October .
15 Two years later , in 1967 , ANDES was in a position to organize the first general strike by teachers to protest against cuts in the education budget in the name of rationalization .
16 Early thrombolysis will place a very heavy burden of responsibility of correct diagnosis on the first general practitioner or physician to attend the patient .
17 Many congratulations and a warm welcome should be given to Dorling Kindersley , the first general publisher to recognise that there is ELT potential in its list and to go so far as to publish an ELT catalogue .
18 Exactly 40 years ago the first general practice health centre in Scotland was opened at Sighthill in Edinburgh .
19 The first general assembly will soon be convened and the membership of DISC will be able to elect a board .
20 His locomotive designs included the first British heavy freight 2–8–0 types in 1903 , the Pacific 4–6–2 express type in 1908 , and the first general purpose 2–6–0 type in 1911 .
21 In 1928 she published the first general history of the women 's suffrage movement , The Cause , and in 1931 Millicent Garrett Fawcett .
22 If the company has been dormant from the time of its formation , the special resolution will be effective if passed before the first general meeting at which accounts are to be laid .
23 Contact has been made with professional and educational institutions in many of the other Member States and CIOB members are now seeking recognition through the First General Directive in a number of countries .
24 The First General Directive came into force in January 1991 .
25 When implemented this will complete the initiatives introduced by the first General Directive .
26 The first General Directive related to the recognition of qualifications awarded after at least three years of higher education .
27 wins its independence from South Africa ; SWAPO and other exiles return to take part in the first general election .
28 Adopted without a vote on Nov. 15 , Resolution 44/21 was the first General Assembly resolution of a political nature to be co-sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union .
29 Wijdenbosch had been Prime Minister of the military-backed government responsible for the 1987 Constitution allowing in that year the first general election since 1977 [ see pp. 35758-59 ] .
30 The Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) , led by Prime Minister Tofilau Eti Alesana , was returned to power on April 5 in the first general election under the country 's recently introduced universal adult suffrage .
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