Example sentences of "[adv] met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : If any new hospitals are built in Wales , such as the East Glamorgan hospital , will the funding for those hospitals , in terms of capital costs , be entirely met by the Welsh Office or , as a result of last week 's disclosure in Construction News , are we to take it that Treasury guidelines to introduce private sector money into such building will mean that the commitment from the Welsh Office will be less ? |
| 2 | Clearly , some of the needs now met by social services departments would be better met by the old people themselves if they had the financial means to preserve their own independence . |
| 3 | He was with a group of friends whom he had apparently met in the gallery , and they were all standing around him admiringly , talking and laughing in that exaggeratedly animated way only Americans have , reacting and demanding reactions . |
| 4 | While this reform is specifically designed to prevent many of today 's disgruntled education consumers joining the ranks of tomorrow 's underclass , it will of course have implications for a much wider group of young people , whose talents and needs have been all too little met by the emphasis on the reorganization of secondary education to the exclusion of all other considerations . |
| 5 | Bride and groom presumably met in the Post Office during the war . |
| 6 | The USAF 's speed and altitude requirements were eventually met by the Los Angeles Division of North American Aviation ( NAA ) — but not without first overcoming tremendous technical , design and manufacturing problems . |
| 7 | Fusion became possible in 1920 because of the difficulties already met by the government . |
| 8 | The two sides have already met in the league , Telford winning 2–0 at the International Stadium , before Cassidy 's reign began . |
| 9 | Both knew that the other knew that Steve and Maria Luisa had n't just met for the first time . |
| 10 | That recipe may have been appropriate in the past when personal consumption was largely met from the output of labour-intensive British industries . |
| 11 | However , longer term temporary labour requirements , such as those experienced over summer by hotels at holiday resorts , are usually met by the recruitment of seasonal workers . |
| 12 | Researchers have noted that many data-handling techniques depend upon assumptions which are hardly ever met in the social and behavioural sciences ( see 6.8.4 ) . |
| 13 | ( We almost always met in the late mornings at his favourite café , always starting the day with a reviving bowl of café au lait , followed by another — and not infrequently another ! ) |
| 14 | Well it 's we nearly met on the lounge |
| 15 | And these seas here er nearly met from the promenade and the west shore down here . |
| 16 | Mabel Peacock suggests ( Folklore 15 , 1944 ) that as Stamford lay at the junction of Rutland , Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire , perhaps ‘ the men of these shires anciently met by the Welland to observe the traditional rites intended to secure the prosperity of their territories ’ . |
| 17 | It could be the first of dozens of identical schools in Armenia , and the five million pound cost is being partly met by the British Armenia Appeal . |
| 18 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 19 | The suffering of war and the suffering of the depression were alike uniquely met by the crucified God . |
| 20 | The group 's proposal for a joint office between the National Science Foundation and Department of Education has been partially met by the recent signing of a formal ‘ memorandum of understanding ’ between the two . |
| 21 | They made sure that the two thousand six hundred and seventy pounds cost of Councillor was fully met by the long suffering tax payers of . |
| 22 | For many , television now meets the religious needs previously met by the Church . |
| 23 | First , Europe 's defence needs are already satisfactorily met by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation , which is inherently more effective than any alternative because it includes the transatlantic nations . |
| 24 | Their need for information is currently met in the following ways : |
| 25 | Brazilian and Colombian army officers subsequently met in the Colombian border town of Letícia to discuss joint action against the rebels . |
| 26 | The index linking of teachers ' pensions is actually that 's actually met by the government and not the teachers ' superannuation fund . |