Example sentences of "[pron] first annual " in BNC.

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1 I wondered what to expect at my first Annual General Meeting .
2 Some of you er may take it amiss if I were to describe you as veterans but my by contrast , this is my first annual public meeting and not just as chairman .
3 On September 14 , 1989 , the 401st Bomb Group arrived for their first annual reunion to be held in England .
4 — DEERNESS Valley Pool League held their first annual presentation night at Esh Winning Football Club and reported a successful season by the six teams taking part .
5 Indeed , as early as 1926 when the Universities Extra-Mural Consultative Committee ( UEMCC ) issued its first annual report , Pateman had written to Mactavish , then General Secretary of the WEA , expressing concern over the establishment of the inter-university committee :
6 A NEW tradition begins this week when the city of York holds its first annual St Nicholas Fayre .
7 Having considered this report the Council went on to state its commitment to the provision of approved re-entry programmes in its first annual report of December 1984 .
8 In its first annual report the government 's advisory group on the Youth Treatment Service condemns the regimes at Glenthorne and St Charles , for running unacceptable punishment systems .
9 The ICAS Lanarkshire association would like to hear from members who wish to attend its first annual dinner which is to be held at the Silvertrees Hotel in Bothwell on Friday 29 October 1993 at 7 for 7.30pm .
10 The UNC held its first annual convention on July 22 , 1990 , when Panday was elected unopposed as leader , with Rampersad Parasram as chairman and Kelvin Ramnath as general secretary .
11 The Dow Jones Industrial Average and Share Index suffered its first annual fall since 1984 and its most serious since 1981 , closing the year at 2,633 .
12 The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development ( EBRD ) held its first annual meeting in Budapest , Hungary , on April 13-14 .
13 In its first annual report the Central Land Board ‘ noted with concern some weeks after the Act came into operation that despite the liability for development charge land was still being widely offered and , still worse , taken at prices including the full development value ’ .
14 In its first annual report , it pointed to the difficulties in some areas particularly in the south-east and the west midlands where the available land was limited to only a few years ' supply .
15 In its first annual report , the NRA spelt out its intention to maintain a tough " watchdog " stance towards the water companies .
16 Its first annual report revealed that , in 1990 , Welsh Water reported 22 such incidents , while Severn Trent , which serves a bigger population , recorded none .
17 In its first annual report , for the year April 1991-March 1992 , English Nature highlights the creation of nine new National Nature Reserves covering some 1,300 hectares , the launch of the Wildlife Enhancement Scheme to promote positive management of Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSIs ) and the spending of £90,000 on research into animals and plants included in its Species Recovery Programme .
18 At its first annual conference in June 1933 , the League had been asked to consider the issues raised by the United Front between the ILP and the Communist Party .
19 Facing his first annual meeting as IBM Corp 's chairman and chief executive , Louis Gerstner did not mince words , telling the Tampa assembly that the company 's very survival had been called into question in the past year , but promised that although the company 's reputation was temporarily tarnished , it will remain strong thanks to its worldwide base — ‘ It would be a great mistake for naysayers to underestimate IBM , ’ Gerstner said .
20 In his first Annual Report seven years earlier , he had mentioned that 16 boys had gained Higher School Certificates ; this year the number was 41 ; and the following year no fewer than 18 Old Stopfordians obtained degrees at Cambridge alone .
21 And now , in less than five hours , Prince Yuan would arrive for his first annual inspection .
22 In his first annual review as Chief Executive of LASMO , the international oil and gas exploration and production company , Mr Joe Darby describes his immediate objective as being ‘ to build a business which is profitable even at low oil prices and which will show a rate of growth commensurate with the forecast rise in our production and cash flow ’ .
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