Example sentences of "[noun pl] meet on [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The fifth extraordinary Congress of People 's Deputies met on Sept. 2-6 to discuss the situation in the country after the failure of the coup in August , and the need for changes to the Constitution and the system of government .
2 Opposition groups met on March 23 and demanded the President 's resignation .
3 Britain and Hong Kong have apparently decided against waiting for the Steering Committee of the UN Conference on Indo-Chinese refugees to meet on January 18 before reviewing the situation .
4 Staff and governors at Our Lady of Fatima Upper School , Anfield , have organised a parents meeting on Monday .
5 By mid-year , however , it was evident that the so-called Schengen agreement , originally conceived in Schengen ( Luxembourg ) in June 1985 ( see p. 33786 ) , was unlikely to materialize on schedule because of continuing disputes , and when the Interior Ministers of the five countries met on Dec. 14-15 in Schengen they were unable to agree on a final document .
6 The Finance Ministers and central bank governors from the G-7 countries met on Sept. 22 .
7 Finance Ministers of the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) developing countries met on Sept. 19 , urging the West " to provide adequate financial flows … to improve their prospects of sustainable growth " , and reportedly expressing concern that the preoccupation of the richer nations with the currency crisis would affect future aid flows .
8 Another rather large grey-brown plover , with distinctive black crown , encircled by white lines meeting on forehead and nape , and typical black and white Vanellus wing and tail patterns .
9 Scotland , too , although the state of their sea defences will depend on the course the opening phase has taken by the time the countries meet on June 20 .
10 Splitting up Microsoft is not an option , but a move against the firm 's MS-DOS licensing practices may have been recommended : FTC commissioners meet on February 5th .
11 The two planets meet on February 2 , August 20 and October 24 .
12 Observer teams met on April 2 in Goma , Zaïre , under the aegis of the Organization of African Unity , as laid down in the ceasefire agreement signed between the government and rebels of the Rwanda Patriotic Front ( FPR ) in N'Sele , Zaïre , in mid-March [ see p. 38088 ] and formalised on March 29 .
13 This should be England 's natural advantage when playing at home , a balance to alien conditions met on tour .
14 Significantly , he chose a conference of Trade Union Executives meeting on January 5th to announce the Government 's commitment to war aims curiously close to those just announced by the Labour Party .
15 Party delegates met on July 7-8 to elect state executives .
16 Representatives from the recently formed Forum for the Defence of Human Rights met on Feb. 12 with the then Interior Minister Hekuran Isai , and received from him a list of 108 political prisoners who had been released unannounced since Jan. 6 , according to a Forum statement issued on Feb. 18 .
17 There has been extensive coverage of select committees ( especially in the Thursday programme as many committees meet on Wednesdays ) and some coverage of standing committees ( perhaps not surprisingly , the committee on the Broadcasting Bill seems to have had particular appeal for the broadcasters and 16 of its sittings were televised ) .
18 The eldorado lifestyle may look like a whirl of sun , sea and sangria — but what of the real-life ex-pats , struggling to make ends meet on Spain 's recession-hit Costa del Sol ?
19 The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future .
20 Likud ministers and Knesset members met on March 18 and approved Shamir 's continuation as party leader .
21 The WI met on March 26 when the subject was vegetarian cookery .
22 which erm we had an elders meeting on Thursday and between Sunday and Thursday various people have comments and people along
23 When finance ministers from the biggest economies meet on April 7th , Japan will ask America to cut its interest rates to support the yen .
24 Without the right to asylum , Germany thus becomes much like the other members of the European Community , whose ministers met on June 1st to try to devise a common system for dealing with refugees .
25 Yesterday 's statement was agreed by more than 30 members of the securities industry and drawn up by Terry Pearson , senior securities adviser at the Royal Bank , after securities specialists met on Tuesday to find a practical replacement for Taurus .
26 At the same time the Ministerial Council of Foreign Ministers met on June 13-14 to discuss the proposed establishment by the end of 1992 of a European economic space ( EES ) embracing the countries of EFTA and the European Communities ( EC ) [ see p. 37134 ] .
27 The Ukrainian and Moldovan Foreign Ministers met on June 4 in Kiev .
28 Other organizations : UN Economic Commission for Africa ( ECA ) , executive secretary Adebayo Adedeji ; African Development Bank , president Babacar N'Diaye ; Francophone states including France [ for June 1990 summit in La Baule see p. 37524 ] ; Franc zone — members of the Union monétaire ouest-africaine use the franc of the Communauté financière africaine ( CFA franc ) whose central issuing bank is the Banque centrale des états de l'Afrique de l'ouest ( in Dakar , Senegal ) , while central African countries in the franc zone use the franc of the Co-opération financière en Afrique centrale , ( also known as the CFA franc ) with the same parity of 50 to the French franc , but whose central issuing bank is the Banque des états de l'Afrique central ( in Yaoundé , Cameroon ) ; Lusophone states — Portugal , Angola , Cape Verde , Guinea-Bissau , Mozambique , Sao Tomé and Príncipe — whose Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 24 , agreeing to hold a first summit in 1991 .
29 CIS Foreign Ministers met on Nov. 12 to agree an agenda for a Heads of Government meeting the following day .
30 GCC Interior Ministers met in Kuwait on Nov. 21 and 22 , and Finance Ministers met on Nov. 22 but apparently failed to make progress on proposals for a customs union — a step towards creation of a common market by the year 2000 which had been set as an objective earlier in the year [ see p. 38985 ] .
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