Example sentences of "met for the first time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 2 | THE new Sussex Downs Conservation Board , which will have responsibilities for 600 square miles of countryside in West and East Sussex , met for the first time last week and elected Baroness Cumberlege as chairman . |
| 3 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 4 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 5 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 6 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 10 | There were grandchildren to be met for the first time . |
| 11 | On Feb. 14 , however , Nichol met representatives of the Association of Chief Ambulance Officers , and on Feb. 20 management and unions met for the first time since October in a session with the Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service ( ACAS ) . |
| 12 | The joint ministerial committee with Ethiopia , formed as a result of an agreement between the two countries in April 1988 to improve bilateral relations [ see p. 36006 ] , met for the first time on Dec. 4-7 , 1989 , in Mogadishu . |
| 13 | Hungary 's Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , elected in March and April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ] , met for the first time on May 2-3 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The 109-member Constituent Assembly , comprising members of the Council of Ministers , representatives of the police and local government , traditional chiefs and in addition invited politicians , met for the first time in late June 1990 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 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 five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
| 19 | The seven-member committee of the Arab League met for the first time in Cairo , also on April 7 . |
| 20 | The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 . |
| 21 | The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it . |
| 22 | The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 . |
| 23 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 24 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 25 | The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future . |
| 26 | 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 . |