Example sentences of "[noun] meet [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When he and Adenauer met for the first time , de Gaulle records , ‘ We discussed Europe at length .
2 While in Cartagena , Colombia , on Dec. 2-3 for the " Group of Rio " summit [ see p. 38675 ] , President Fujimori of Peru and President Borja of Ecuador met for the first time to discuss their longstanding border dispute [ see p. 38526 ] .
3 The club meets on the first Wednesday of the month at .
4 The Guildford Machine Knitting Club meets on the third Monday of each month ( except December ) in the Salvation Army Hall , Guildford from 8pm .
5 They will have 17 days between the moment when the last result is known and April 27 , when the new Parliament meets for the first time , to gather sufficient support from MPs from minority parties to form a government .
6 When the new Parliament meets for the first time on Monday , April 27 , the first task facing MPs will be to choose a Speaker .
7 As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes .
8 The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg .
9 All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time .
10 And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married .
11 Such is the force of tradition that when the newly instituted Parliament of Northern Ireland met for the first time in 1921 , its first act was to claim these ‘ undoubted and ancient privileges ’ .
12 Georgia attended an NACC meeting for the first time , Albania was also admitted as a member , and Finland attended as an observer .
13 As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side .
14 Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair .
15 The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 .
16 The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future .
17 When the delegates from Western literature meet on the first day to pray for their existence , there is an attempted disruption of the ceremony by Muslim fundamentalists who claim to object to the Christian format of the proceedings , but , as we later discover , their real target is the elusive Gibreel Farishta whom they are trying to punish for his heretical views .
18 Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four .
19 When a group of individuals meets for the first time the process of group formation has begun .
20 The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it .
21 This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities .
22 The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 .
23 History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match .
24 Manchester Women 's Bisexual Group meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month at the Gay Centre , Sidney Street at 7.30–9.30 pm .
25 Cypriot Lesbian & Gay group meet on the first Sunday of every month at London Friend , 86 Caledonian Road , London N ! .
26 On Dec. 29 the HCR met for the first time since the attempted coup and approved the new Cabinet , whose membership was announced the following day .
27 In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh .
28 When the new Assembly met for the first time on Sept. 24 , seven opposition members refused to take their seats , claiming that the election had been rigged .
29 The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results .
30 The new Cabinet met for the first time on June 12 and Shamir attempted to head off Arab-led calls for a special UN Security Council team to visit the West Bank and Gaza [ see p. 37443 ] by proposing that a UN envoy , Jean-Claude Aimé , should visit the area in their place .
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