Example sentences of "meet [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency report of Dec. 8 said that ICO Foreign Ministers who met for a preparatory session in Dakar on Dec. 5-9 , had adopted a draft resolution expressing " full solidarity " with Libya in its confrontation with Western states over the Lockerbie affair [ see p. 38599 ] and underlined their " concern over … the possible use of force " . |
| 2 | Now reference was made to the police finance working party which met for a long period of time , and unfortunately made no progress whatsoever in zero base budgeting . |
| 3 | The overnight snooze [ all of one-and-a-half hours ] on the ferry was hardly over when it was time to drive onto Reims , where crews from Oslo , Berlin and Edinburgh met for a deserved rest . |
| 4 | FOUR months after attending a weekend course on team building and sales training , staff from Treasury and Capital Markets , Scotland met for a day-long follow-up session in the conference room at Drummond House . |
| 5 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 6 | As the Cabinet met for an unprecedented late-night session , Mr Major was searching for a way out of the deadlock that would help Chancellor Norman Lamont unveil a mini-Budget for recovery next week . |
| 7 | They all met for the international meeting at Salzburg in 1908 , having corresponded from 1906 onwards . |
| 8 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 9 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 10 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 11 | Early in the next month the regent began the process of reconciliation , granting the magnates their letters patent and agreeing in a parliament ( which met after the Scottish victory at Stirling Bridge ) to renew and confirm the charters , which was done in october following . |
| 12 | The full committee was due to meet for a final session in mid-February , prior to presentation of the Basic Law to the Chinese legislature for approval in March-April 1990 . |
| 13 | ‘ In the meantime we must not forget that we have tough targets to meet for the current year . |
| 14 | Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives . |
| 15 | The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable . |
| 16 | Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 17 | To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule . |
| 18 | He erm he was n't giving evidence at the enquiry , but erm it was at his suggestion that I was asked to meet with the Chief Planning Officer prior to the to talk about alternative sites . |
| 19 | Over the issue of the future ownership of Mar Lodge , which contains three of Britain 's five highest mountains , Mr. Lang for months resisted pressure even to meet with the conservation groups who would like to rescue it . |
| 20 | The designer is provided , therefore , with an early indication of the mechanism 's failure to meet with the specified operating conditions . |
| 21 | His first port of call will be London where he is to meet with the British Prime Minister . |
| 22 | Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park . |
| 23 | DARLINGTON teenagers will soon be able to meet in a new club . |
| 24 | ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage … |
| 25 | A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation . |
| 26 | As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund . |
| 27 | There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates . |
| 28 | they are likely to meet in the outside world ; |
| 29 | It was at Hayward 's flat at 22 Bina Gardens ( only a short walk from Eliot 's lodgings in Grenville Place ) that Eliot , Geoffrey Faber and Frank Morley used regularly to meet in the late Thirties . |
| 30 | The festival is pleased to provide an opportunity for audience and musicians to meet in the beautiful 12th-century church known as the Spurriergate Centre which serves a wide range of delicious foods and is renowned for its vegetarian dishes . |