Example sentences of "hold the first [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The President had also apparently abandoned his aim of holding the first round of legislative elections on Oct. 25 [ see p. 39086 ] , and agreed to reschedule them for late November ( with a number of opposition parties still calling for a further postponement ) . |
| 2 | ( Harness racing , it said in brackets , would hold the first meeting of its winter season the following Sunday . ) |
| 3 | The presidium and committees were to be formed by December , and it was hoped to hold the first session of the Baltic Assembly by January 1992 . |
| 4 | Certainly Hobhouse can be taken as a representative figure since , in addition to being a leading light of New Liberalism , he also held the first Chair of Sociology to be established in Britain — at the London School of Economics , which was founded by the Webbs . |
| 5 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |