Example sentences of "at the [adj] general [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first definite report of women taking the side of the men comes in early August , when it was announced at the quarterly general meeting of the Edinburgh Typographical Society that in the office of Neill & Co , 51 " female compositors had intimated their intention of tendering notices on Friday 5 August " alongside the men . |
| 2 | For this reason , the Colonel pointed out , he could not ‘ consistent with my wounded feelings support his Lordship 's friend at the late General Election … ’ |
| 3 | Ten cooperative candidates ran at the 1918 general election , only one of whom was successful . |
| 4 | Although Billing retained his seat at the 1918 general election , ill health forced his retirement in 1921 . |
| 5 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 6 | The President asserted that the referendum would fulfil his pledge made to whites at the 1989 general election to seek their approval for major constitutional change . |
| 7 | 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' . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | His health continued to decline and within two years of masterminding the Liberal victory at the 1892 general election , so enabling W. E. Gladstone to form his fourth ministry , he resigned all his offices with the party . |
| 10 | The proceeds from the sale of this were used to purchase medals and a trophy for the winners and in addition , a surplus of £83.00 was donated to the Edinburgh Breast Care Unit at the Western General Hospital . |
| 11 | The interview on 8th at the Western General Hospital is partly fund-raising and John is advising me very strongly not to take it , and I am sure he is right . |
| 12 | NANCY Hamlyn Rae McArthur , widow of Lord Hoy of Leith , died at the Western General Hospital , Edinburgh , yesterday after a short illness . |
| 13 | Mr MacInnes , who was married and lived in Bo'ness , was a consultant in clinical neuro- physiology at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 15 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 16 | The Birmingham Liberal Association was already regarded as a model of efficiency , following the success of its ‘ vote as you are told ’ campaign at the 1868 general election , which had secured the return of Liberal members for all of Birmingham 's three seats , but Schnadhorst fine-tuned its organization to an even higher pitch . |
| 17 | 16,315,227 Income Shares in Waterford Wedgwood U.K. plc were issued during 1992 to form Stock Units under the procedures enacted to simplify trading in the Group 's securities as approved at the Extraordinary General Meetings of the Company and Waterford Wedgwood U.K. plc both held on 28 March 1990 . |
| 18 | The revised proposal was debated at the Extraordinary General Meeting on May 20th , 1983 , with a separate discussion on the question of the Committee constitution also taking place ; this new proposal was a virtual mirror image of the 1982 amendment which had been disregarded by the President at the Extraordinary General Meeting of that year ! |
| 19 | The revised proposal was debated at the Extraordinary General Meeting on May 20th , 1983 , with a separate discussion on the question of the Committee constitution also taking place ; this new proposal was a virtual mirror image of the 1982 amendment which had been disregarded by the President at the Extraordinary General Meeting of that year ! |
| 20 | Erm , I work in a project at the Southern General Hospital in Glasgow , and one of the things , there 's young who experiment with drugs whether we like it or not , and I think it depends what drug i is available at that time , so we could sit here and go through the different periods of time . |
| 21 | The first conciliar text to be considered , on 22 October at the 4th general congregation , was that on liturgy . |
| 22 | By the early 1950s , the Essex Federation had become one of the strongest in the District , in terms of the enthusiasm and sense of purpose of its Executive Committee , composed of members elected from constituent branches at the annual general meetings . |
| 23 | Erm the main difference between a non-executive director and a director basically is that the directors are added to by the shareholders and are re-elected at the annual general meetings . |
| 24 | For now they sit like shareholders at the annual general meeting of a company whose profits have fallen on last year 's . |
| 25 | The public flogging anticipated at the annual general meeting of the City watchdog , Fimbra , may well fail to materialise . |
| 26 | At the annual general meeting of the company yesterday , Mr Ian Mackeson-Sandbach , a trustee and executive of the estate of the late Sir Basil de Ferranti , called on the board to publish the investigation findings of accountants Coopers & Lybrand into the frauds at ISC Technologies , part of Ferranti 's US subsidiary . |
| 27 | At the annual general meeting ( AGM ) they vote on the annual report and on the appointment of all directors . |
| 28 | At the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Lieutenants ' Association — surely Britain 's most exclusive trade union — there is much discussion of such knotty questions as whether the pushy chairman of the local district council has , as he insists he has , the right to be presented to the Queen before the laid-back leader of the county council . |
| 29 | At the annual general meeting in London on 16 July 1992 vacancies on the Council and some of its boards are due to be filled in accordance with the electoral procedures specified in the By-laws and summarised in the notice . |
| 30 | At the Annual General Meeting with some 20 members present , Mr. Valentine Fleming ( father to writers Peter and Ian ) was elected as the Club 's first President . |