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 ] . |