Example sentences of "[be] met [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am met by another answerphone with the friend 's voice on it . |
| 2 | He takes her to live in the Valley of Paradise , where all her desires are met except one , which is to see the face of her husband . |
| 3 | Their needs are met to varying degrees by the home , parish or deanery . |
| 4 | Social needs are met with familiar faces attending each week and consultations with the same nurses and doctors . |
| 5 | Also , as an immigrant to Canada , I can affirm it 's more pleasant living where problems are met with cheerful optimism instead of the sullen whining which passes for debate in Britain . |
| 6 | Training and Education The Group Training Department ensures that training requirements are met for all employees . |
| 7 | Emotional and personal needs are met within this smaller unit . |
| 8 | Finally , in the event of a bank ceasing to conduct business , as a result of insolvency and its liquidation , the shareholders are paid back their capital contribution only after all the depositors ' claims are met in full . |
| 9 | We are met by one of the directors of the firm who takes us to a showroom for coffee . |
| 10 | I.e. you are met by one or two leading comrades of the commune and taken into a biggish reception room with tables , cigarettes and cups of tea ( these are big cups with lids , in which the tea is brewed — and girls in pigtails normally come round and replenish your cup with hot water from time to time ) . |
| 11 | The courses have all been designed to provide the basic knowledge and skills needed to cope with the rapid developments which are met by professional engineers , along with essential practical and design skills . |
| 12 | But the balanced-budget method of financing extra expenditure by higher taxation is still expansionary to the limited extent that tax bills are met by reduced saving rather than by cutbacks in spending . |
| 13 | In other parts of the world , the same needs arise but they are met by different structures . |
| 14 | No subway system in the world ( save Hong Kong 's ) makes a profit ; in Rome , 82 per cent of public transport operating costs are met by public subsidy , in Paris , 52 per cent . |
| 15 | Some of the costs are met by head office — it gets all of the revenue because we sell in this country — but in the case of France where we have a separate legal entity , what we 're after is contribution statements by unit of accommodation for the UK revenues , and one or two other costs with those French locally incurred expenses . |
| 16 | The latter has been the chosen course , with the Federal government establishing welfare programmes , and guidelines for their operation , whereby part ( if not all ) of the costs of programme implementation are met from Federal money , and allocated to the State governments to be used for the defined purposes . |
| 17 | In iceland for example some 70% of the country 's energy needs are met from geothermal sources . |
| 18 | Never has the start of a new decade been met with such exciting business opportunities . |
| 19 | ‘ We are pursuing measures to make NT and SVR4 communicate with each other , ’ says Walker , though Microsoft claims its offers to develop interoperability with the two Unixes have been met with downright hostility . |
| 20 | Our teachers have mastered its methods with ease and it has been met with great success , interest and enthusiasm by our students . |
| 21 | For NDT Systems , the UTEA-1 represents the first in-house designed and manufactured ultrasonic products , which has been met with great enthusiasm . |
| 22 | And the news has been met with great excitement by scientists in Liverpool who say their colleagues ' work could provide the missing pieces in the puzzle . |
| 23 | There is also evidence of similar disparities in the sentencing practices of comparable Crown Courts in different parts of the country , though attempts to conduct more rigorous investigations of the kind described above have so far been met with judicial opposition and refusal to cooperate ( see Ashworth , 1994 ) . |
| 24 | The addition of the American mink to the British fauna has not exactly been met with jubilant welcome . |
| 25 | In Northern Ireland , as in the rest of the UK , these tables have been met with some controversy and suspicion . |
| 26 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 27 | In addition , precipitated by the failure of the Kremlin coup , the Bush Administration , fully supported by my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister , have made significant additional unilateral reductions , all of which have been met by similar unilateral cuts by President Gorbachev and accompanied by the promise of further bilateral reductions to come . |
| 28 | The few who have attempted to query appointments at a local level have been met by shocked indignation and comments like : ‘ The fact of the matter is that the applications that we receive from doctors from the subcontinent leave much to be desired . ’ |
| 29 | These attacks in turn have been met by forceful rebuttals from Conservative back-benchers and from the Prime Minister herself . |
| 30 | New energy needs had been met from other sources , as shown in the chart below . |