Example sentences of "meet by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a scrappy match Eppleton CW gained some consolation for their defeat in the League Cup by visitors IFG Roker winning their league meeting by the odd goal . |
| 2 | The objective will be a realistic specification that can be met by a wide variety of suppliers , but the final say in the specs will be left with the service suppliers , making it highly likely that Unix System V.4 will be at the core of the specification . |
| 3 | It is possible that after analysing certain European markets it becomes apparent that your objectives might best be met by a start-up venture . |
| 4 | At the gate they were met by a close cross-cousin of the groom . |
| 5 | That new and greater demand must , of course , be met by a new and greater supply of goods , or all the evils of inflation and price rise will result . |
| 6 | Every attempt by local government to evade central spending restrictions has been met by a new rule to make evasion more difficult . |
| 7 | Somewhere past Pontino , the last village she remembers seeing , they were told to turn into a narrow lane where they were met by a small truck . |
| 8 | My instinct , both of mercy and goodwill , was to seek Barbara 's approval to a reference to the Prime Minister , but an even stronger instinct told me that it was likely to be met by a flat refusal and that the negotiating process would be stillborn . |
| 9 | I hurried up to the first floor and on turning at the landing was met by a strange sight . |
| 10 | At the barrier at Gatwick , I was met by a friendly policeman who told me that the injuries were not as bad as had at first been thought , and that none of my family was in danger — news which immediately reduced me to tears . |
| 11 | Questions about his infatuation with the bar owner 's wife were met by a stony stare . |
| 12 | This will have Vikings , and a long boat , and visitors met by a floating Nordic goddess . |
| 13 | Hay is the most obvious taste association , striking you first on the bouquet , where it mingles with the scent of crumbled biscuits , and when it comes to flavour , it is met by a faint dusting of icing sugar . |
| 14 | This excuse is met by a low moan crawling through the carriages . |
| 15 | This was met by a diving A. Mayson who showed agility beyond his height-weight ratio to push the ball in for number two . |
| 16 | Manescu was met by a uniformed guard when the doors opened . |
| 17 | He was flying first class to LAX , where he would be met by a uniformed chauffeur who would convey him by limousine or courtesy car to the Pinnacle Trumont on the Avenue of the Stars . |
| 18 | They conclude : " " the needs of business " are best met by a liberal education " ( recommendation 30 ) . |
| 19 | The girl sister Chiang arrives at the wharf at Chungking on her way to rejoin the rebels in the N. of the province , and is met by a communist agent who is rather foppish in his behaviour , and later turns out to be , not surprisingly , a renegade . |
| 20 | Erm you 've got this , this business of threatening to attack the Serbian guns erm involves of course the decisions of individual governments whether or not they 're prepared to allow their forces to be involved , in the case of the British whether you 're going to allow your forces to get involved in it or not , but in international terms it involves both NATO , which has now passed a resolution saying unless certain conditions are met by a certain time , then there will be bombing of the Serbian positions but the people on the ground , whether they originally came from France or the Ukraine or from Britain , are in fact under the blue beret of the United Nations and the United Nations and NATO are not altogether , they 're not precisely together on this issue . |
| 21 | Her friendly enquiry as to the whereabouts of the Red House was met by a hostile stare from the woman behind the counter . |
| 22 | The news that Hanson may be preparing to bid for ICI has been met by a united front on the ICI board . |
| 23 | When Thomas , duke of Clarence , second son of Henry IV , brought a force into France in August 1412 to fulfil the terms of the agreement made in May , he was met by a united opposition . |
| 24 | The quantitative loss would be met by a qualitative improvement . |
| 25 | When you 're arguing about the money to be spend on repairs , and for example the reason why we 've had to get strict budgetary control on the amount of money which is being spent on repairs , is because that money all comes out of tenants ' rents , and it 's basically a balance — if we want to increase the erm numbers and the standard of repairs that we offer as a landlord , then it has to be met by a further increase in rents , and we think we 've got the balance about right at the moment . |
| 26 | However , an arrangement where the trader 's losses are met by a third party , not for commercial reasons but solely to encourage the trader to keep trading , is not legitimate . |
| 27 | I was met by a slow but very solid resistance moving down the far bank . |
| 28 | Eventually arrived at hotel in Marinna de Ravenna , to be met by a complimentary bottle of Champagne and this set us off the next day , on a full tank ! |
| 29 | At Portsmouth , Crabb was met by a local MI6 officer , using the cover name ‘ Bernard Smith ’ , and together they booked in at the Sallyport Hotel where ‘ Smith ’ gave his address as ‘ c/o Foreign Office , London ’ . |
| 30 | She is expecting to be met by a local member of Committee staff and so is not surprised when a young Thai dressed formally in dark trousers and white short-sleeved shirt and carrying a dark peaked cap comes up to her and says , ‘ Excuse me , you are waiting for some-one ? ’ |