Example sentences of "[noun] meet for the [adj] time " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the new Parliament meets for the first time on Monday , April 27 , the first task facing MPs will be to choose a Speaker . |
| 5 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 6 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And just six hours after Chris and Heather met for the first time they had decided to get married . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Georgia attended an NACC meeting for the first time , Albania was also admitted as a member , and Finland attended as an observer . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 . |
| 13 | The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When a group of individuals meets for the first time the process of group formation has begun . |
| 16 | The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 . |
| 19 | History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In 1963 Miles and Haynes met for the first time , in Edinburgh . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when people meet for the first time . |
| 26 | In one game , against Nottingham Forest , Stephenson was joined by another player who was to take a leading role in Chapman 's future — Grenadier Guardsman Charlie Buchan of Sunderland , whom Chapman met for the first time . |
| 27 | Earlier , the new Conflict Prevention Centre of the CSCE met for the first time in Vienna on July 1-2 , as requested by Austria , and called for an immediate ceasefire and the return of the JNA to barracks , but failed to reach the necessary unanimity on sending a CSCE observer mission . |
| 28 | On the twenty fourth July nineteen ninety one the new resources and policy grant sub-committee met for the first time and considered a number of applications including one from your organisation . |
| 29 | The seven-member committee of the Arab League met for the first time in Cairo , also on April 7 . |
| 30 | The working party meets for the first time in July when it will define the terms of reference of the study . |