Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] met the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harpers & Queen met the maestro in his own home , a chic but highly individual apartment in the smart seizième district of Paris . |
| 2 | Where ITV met the needs of regions viewed as ‘ minorities , within the nation , the fourth channel should be a national service , but serving social and cultural minorities : blacks , feminists , philosophers , gays , American football fanatics , and |
| 3 | The French government announced that it would take the strongest measures to ensure that Aoun met the conditions attached to his asylum , which included refraining from making public statements on political issues . |
| 4 | British officials stressed that Major met the Dalai Lama " in his spiritual capacity as a man of peace " . |
| 5 | Although pupils met the same topic over and over again , they still did not understand . |
| 6 | On Tuesday , a group of MPs and peers met the Home Secretary on behalf of 17 people convicted in connection with the first two great IRA outrages on the British mainland during the present phase of the Irish troubles . |
| 7 | It is evident from this and other comments , several describing treachery , that he often thought little of the English resistance , and on at least one occasion he did it injustice , saying under 1001 that an immense levy from Somerset and Devon met the raiders at Pinhoe , but fled immediately battle was joined , whereas an independent entry in the A text reports that the English fought with such forces as they could gather , which gives a rather different impression . |
| 8 | I was in the Bohemian quarter , where cobbled alleys full of bars and bookshops met the quayside . |
| 9 | The road-builders ' diet , mainly cheese and biscuits , was monotonous , but for the average soldier if the beer supply was adequate everything was all right and Wade met the problem of a lack of local supplies in a typically sensible way , as he reported to London in 1733 |
| 10 | The Natural Resources Defense Council claims that , even if beaches met the EPA standards , 19 out of 1,000 swimmers would develop gastro-enteritis , largely as a result of untreated sewage being discharged into the sea . |
| 11 | Gabriel , Lambert and Church met the F2B at the rendezvous point and headed for the Front . |
| 12 | It was another few days before Endill met the scientist , whose name was Blunset , for the third time . |
| 13 | As soon as Jaq met the Astropath he guessed that there was more awaiting . |
| 14 | When Gaitskell met the chairmen on 22 July 1948 , however , he mercilessly exposed many of their arguments as the specious reasoning of bigoted men . |
| 15 | When George met the York coach at the King 's Head in Kirkbymoorside , relations were rather strained at first . |
| 16 | For instance , when Petrarch met the Emperor Charles IV at Mantua in 1354 he gave him some Roman coins with the words , ‘ Look , Caesar , on those whom you have succeeded ; look on those you should strive to emulate . ’ |
| 17 | When Dexter met the superintendent twenty minutes later , Blanche stood outside the Inside Out office still chatting to the security guard . |