Example sentences of "[art] [noun] met the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The measure met the qualified support of Labour in Parliament who argued , as always and reasonably enough , that the scheme gave too little . |
| 2 | The knights met the Council at Lincoln in July 1316 , and the king 's officers drew up for them a list of ‘ divers errors ’ contained in the perambulations of 1300 . |
| 3 | ‘ Mo ’ cars , ’ he pronounced , excitedly pointing a finger towards the foot of the hill where the lane met the village street in a T-junction . |
| 4 | The researchers met the social workers at the start of the study , and after each completion of the schedules , when they were also asked to fill in a brief checklist . |
| 5 | Although the concessions met the demands made at the start of an unprecedented national protest campaign on June 10 , they now failed to satisfy the opposition , who responded by continuing to call for Ratsiraka 's resignation . |
| 6 | The force met the submarine HMS Sunfish stationed as a navigation check for the assault force , and at 0400 hours on 4 March the ships were piloted into Stamsund , as at other landing points , by local seamen of the Free Norwegian Navy . |
| 7 | The defendant met the vendor 's valuer and agreed the valuation of the goodwill on what the plaintiff alleged was the wrong basis . |
| 8 | Both the proposals and the practice met the spirit of the age : new cities planned to be environmentally attractive , socially acceptable and economically viable gained support from both public opinion and commercial interests . |
| 9 | Oh , it was n't like this at all , I 'm sure , yet the shape silhouetted in the snow where the ice met the beach turned into our worst fears . |
| 10 | The 1893 Act allowed institutions a Parliamentary grant per pupil , but only if the institution/asylum met the standards set by the periodic visits of Her Majesty 's Inspector , so in order to meet these standards and obtain their grants , schools had to improve on the conditions in which the pupils were taught . |
| 11 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 12 | The medics met the plane and gave him plasma etc right there in the radio room before transporting him to the hospital . |
| 13 | The author met the leopard a couple of days later on a forest track looking very sorry for himself and with a broken tail ! |
| 14 | The assembly of the Khans met the same afternoon . |
| 15 | Man to man , the Englishman met the Indian and prevailed . |
| 16 | Alexei peered ahead at the swirling vapour which shrouded the place where the bridge met the face of another building . |
| 17 | At a recent consultation evening where the teachers met the parents , we had a 97 per cent turn-out . |
| 18 | EACO-Route 's project manager , Rob Lane , claimed that the road met the government 's ( controversial ) cost-benefit criteria , and added that its construction could provide 60,000 jobs and attract 100,000 people into new towns and villages in East Anglia and the north-east , improving prospects of economically-depressed areas such as Hull and Teeside . |
| 19 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 20 | Representatives of the NAC met the Guild Council on 21 October and made it quite clear that the NAC could not continue to recognize the Guild as the youth section of the Party if it retained sympathetic affiliation to the Young Communist International . |
| 21 | On Saturday 11th November five members of the Society met the owner of the Glenburrell bridge , Major Minton Beddoes , who kindly spent the whole afternoon with us discussing , not only the bridge itself , but various aspects of the line such as access to it and possible future developments . |
| 22 | The can chair was then put in and where the dark plants in the garden met the paler grass . |
| 23 | WHEN WE first got to New York , the reporters met the boat and because they printed our names in the papers the Stage Door Johnnies started pestering us ; they were a completely different sort from the European ones . |
| 24 | The study 's conviction that creating the panel met the need to dispel finally the belief that auditors were clients of the company , not he shareholders , was still not shared by the finance officers . |
| 25 | When the Under-Secretary met the TEC chairman did he apologise for the 97 per cent . |
| 26 | When the Minister met the nine regional chairmen last week they regarded his statement that he sought to achieve no more funding for sport in this country — Wales received 8.5 per cent. , Scotland 15 per cent . |
| 27 | But as Elisabeth stood watching she noticed that where the sea met the shore it broke in lively foam . |
| 28 | Unfortunately the use of a new gauge led to a simple practical problem — the break of gauge where the broad met the narrow gauge with the consequent need for transshipment of goods and passengers . |
| 29 | Nicholas stood , watching the place where the walls met the sky , and the towers , and the galleries , and unslung his bow and bent it . |
| 30 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |