Example sentences of "meet [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all met for the international meeting at Salzburg in 1908 , having corresponded from 1906 onwards . |
| 2 | Thomson soon found himself hob-nobbing with Mongkut , the King of Siam , who he met through the royal children 's governess , Anna Leonowens . |
| 3 | The thing is , we met through the Lonely Hearts ads and I 'm afraid my friends will laugh at me when they find out . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ In the meantime we must not forget that we have tough targets to meet for the current year . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The designer is provided , therefore , with an early indication of the mechanism 's failure to meet with the specified operating conditions . |
| 11 | His first port of call will be London where he is to meet with the British Prime Minister . |
| 12 | they are likely to meet in the outside world ; |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr. Denzil Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he has any plans to meet in the near future the chairman of British Coal to discuss the state of the Welsh coalfield . |
| 16 | Matron said she 'd find the others and they arranged to meet in the sick bay . |
| 17 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 18 | So we continued to meet on the sly . |
| 19 | Compaq has set UnixWare some milestones to meet over the coming months . |
| 20 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 21 | One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move . |
| 22 | Energy Ministers from 21 countries , meeting as the governing board of the International Energy Agency , agreed on May 30 , 1989 , on a range of policies aimed at curbing the greenhouse effect . |
| 23 | During the course of the visit the group had several sessions of talks with seven senior South Koreans including Kang Young Hoon , the South Korean Prime Minister — the first ever meeting between the Prime Ministers of the two states . |
| 24 | Conflict was averted by an emergency meeting between the Collective State Presidency and the Croatian leadership on Jan. 25 . |
| 25 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 26 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 27 | A considerable part of the total range of need is met through the basic social services of income maintenance , health , housing and personal social services . |
| 28 | They claim to see each other less than couples who go out to work , meeting for the occasional cup of coffee in the kitchen . |
| 29 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 30 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |