Example sentences of "be met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I try to use the shared bathroom I am met by the teenage mother — the one with two kids . |
| 2 | In all these cases the court has been concerned to ensure that these fundamental requirements are met in the way in which , particularly in the case of the county courts , they are intended to be and should be met . |
| 3 | Before midday we arrive at the first village and are met by the Mukhtar , Hadji Hanna . |
| 4 | Second , you are looking for a candidate who will find that his or her own requirements are met by the conditions of the job and the organization ( whether it be a large company or a one-to-one working relationship ) . |
| 5 | The fully robed civic dignitaries walk in procession , led by the sergeant-at-mace , from the town hall in the market square to the cathedral , where they are met by the dean . |
| 6 | If the above criteria are met by the applicant , and any objections or representations prove ill-founded , an O licence is granted on such terms as the LA thinks fit . |
| 7 | Both libraries operate a system of postal loans , provided postal charges are met by the borrower . |
| 8 | In August it was remarked in the Commons that , ‘ Wherever you go now in every constituency you are met by the aged people and their organizations . ’ |
| 9 | About a third of these costs are met by the Church Commissioners , who generated investment income of £140.8 million in 1989 . |
| 10 | The individual officer is rarely held personally liable for his or her actions : damages are paid by the city , while legal costs are met by the union . |
| 11 | The capital expenditure and running costs of controlled schools are met by the Education and Library Boards from funds provided by the DENI . |
| 12 | Capital expenditure on these schools is partly met ( up to 85% ) by the DENI ; running costs are met by the Education and Library Boards . |
| 13 | Likewise , ‘ employment ’ in the sense of earning money may have little relevance in a peasant society where people 's needs are met by the labour of their own hands . |
| 14 | Although all the UK 's gas needs are met from the North Sea , since 1977 an increasing proportion has been supplied from the Norwegian , rather than the UK , sector . |
| 15 | All the costs of organisation are met from the entry fee of £5 per team , so all the money raised goes to charity . |
| 16 | In this first review the Security Council deemed that " the necessary conditions " had not yet been met for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 17 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 18 | The Bishop of Ely claimed Benwick as part of his chase : they had been met by the bishop 's bailiff , leading three priests in full vestments , with Bible , cross and candle , ‘ so that they could make no inquest there that day ’ . |
| 19 | This we did by making sure every request for spare parts , made on order slips , had been met by the delivery of these parts told us by the exact delivery slip . |
| 20 | Applicants deluged the NME with calls claiming that promises of replacement tickets for Morrissey 's December 19 shows at The Alexandra Palace had not been met by the organisers . |
| 21 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |
| 22 | However , direction and centralization , as Dunleavy and Rhodes ( 1987 , p. 26 ) warn , is not synonymous with control , as is well illustrated in the financial sphere where interventions have often been met by the development of evasion strategies by local authorities . |
| 23 | The increasing demand for good quality language training within the workplace has been met by the Board with their business focused language awards . |
| 24 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 25 | We anticipate a shortfall of fifteen thousand pounds compared to our original budget and what we 've done in that is we 've taken an element of seven thousand in a sense below the line so that it does n't affect this committee , but this committee has had to find eight thousand pounds with that shortfall and now the bulk of that has been met by the savings we found elsewhere in the budget and the final item there is er setting up a consultants budget of ten thousand pounds , there 's not a consultants budget of any significance at , at the moment of the committee erm the County Planning Officer anticipates there 's a need for consultants in the minerals local plan work which we 're coming into this year and also to assist in environmental assessments er and special on that . |
| 26 | The primary aim is to provide an authentic analysis of key legal , administrative , and policy themes which can be expected to be met during the development and implementation of a integrated approach . |
| 27 | for Valuables and Portable Possessions , the balance should not be met under the Household |
| 28 | Policy requirements should be met through the development of a constabulary possessing rifles , machine guns and other equipment . |
| 29 | He stated that there would be no new taxes or loans to fund the shortfall and that the cost would be met through the sale of state corporations and of the government 's shareholdings in the major commercial banks . |
| 30 | Sponsors of the bill suggested that the cost of the latest extension would be met through the use of $2,200 million left unspent during the last fiscal year and of $500 million from an accelerated collection of taxes from large corporations . |