Example sentences of "meeting [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Conflict was averted by an emergency meeting between the Collective State Presidency and the Croatian leadership on Jan. 25 . |
| 4 | They claim to see each other less than couples who go out to work , meeting for the occasional cup of coffee in the kitchen . |
| 5 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 6 | Nate Cocello , President of United Motors , had flown into London from Detroit with a posse of Vice Presidents to attend the bi-monthly meeting of the European Planning committee . |
| 7 | Unix System Labs ' top brass has been meeting with the Russian Minister of Higher Education about getting Unix made part of the curriculum . |
| 8 | In 1894 he joined the Wilson Line in Hull as second mate of the SS Draco and three years later a chance meeting with the Norwegian explorer H. Borchgrevink , a passenger in his vessel , the Montebello , led to Colbeck 's joining the Southern Cross expedition ( 1898–1900 ) as magnetic observer , following an intensive course of instruction at Kew Observatory . |
| 9 | Home Secretary Mr Clarke and Sir Nicholas attended an emergency meeting with the Prime Minister yesterday where they decided to ‘ limit the damage ’ with the inquiry . |
| 10 | Here were Larsen and himself , grown men , well armed and equipped , and yet they were more than a little uneasy at the unwelcome prospect of meeting with the savage beasts . |
| 11 | Alex recounted her meeting with the young painter and they laughed together . |
| 12 | As it was , others advised him against precipitating the issue , and I had a late word with him shortly before his evening meeting with the Conservative Political Centre ; but by then it was too late for he considered himself to be committed to his friends . |
| 13 | He had accomplished nothing and he may well have meditated on the difference between his situation and that of his uncle at the Erfurt meeting with the German Princes in 1808 . |
| 14 | Later he would go out and stroll the city before his noon date at the Smithsonian and the afternoon meeting with the Secret Service . |
| 15 | In the middle of the afternoon , she rang her office : there was nothing more than a routine acknowledgment of the debriefing report she had sent after Maxim 's meeting with the Secret Service . |
| 16 | This discussion should include other professionals in the multidisciplinary team and may need to start with a recognition of their own feelings , before meeting with the old person concerned . |
| 17 | Erm , we called a lodge meeting before the annual leave , annual shutdown , and in that lodge meeting all three quarries agreed to go on a work to rule as from the resumption of work , which is second week of August . |
| 18 | Further down the hillside towards La Paz , another women 's group is meeting in the early afternoon . |
| 19 | Meeting in the southern Peruvian port of Ilo , President Jaime Paz Zamora signed an agreement with his Peruvian counterpart , Alberto Fujimori , on Jan. 24 , which would grant Bolivia , landlocked since it lost territory to Chile in the 1879 War of the Pacific , access to the Pacific Ocean . |
| 20 | A decision taken at an emergency session of the Arab League Council , meeting in the Egyptian capital , Cairo , on Sept. 10 , to transfer the bulk of organization 's departments and affiliated apparatus from Tunis to Cairo by Oct. 31 , provoked a sharp reaction from some members countries not in attendance . |
| 21 | The Group of Eight ( G-8 ) Latin American debtor countries ( Argentina , Brazil , Colombia , Mexico , Peru , Uruguay , Venezuela and Panama — the last having been expelled , however , on March 30 , 1990 — see p. 37373 ) meeting in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Dec. 4-5 , 1989 , issued the Buenos Aires Declaration , under which the Foreign Affairs and Economic and Planning Ministers agreed to meet every six months with a view to establishing a Latin American common market by 1992 . |
| 22 | Leaders of the eight member states of the Amazon Pact , meeting in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus , have issued a declaration calling for financial and technical support from northern countries , in return for agreeing to preserve their forest resources as part of a strategy to combat global warming , to be discussed at the UNCED conference in June . |
| 23 | They imposed a new regularity on Lewes life , meeting in the now-vanished Town House they built in 1564 , set apart with style from the lesser people . |
| 24 | Workers toasted news of the deal with free beer at a shop floor meeting in the huge plant yesterday afternoon . |
| 25 | Meeting in the Argentinian capital , Buenos Aires , justice ministers from the four South American countries aiming to create the Mercosur regional common market by 1995 — Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay — signed an agreement for joint legal cooperation on Nov. 7 [ for March 1991 launch of Mercosur see p. 38096 ] . |
| 26 | There is a delegates meeting in the Constitutional Club tomorrow night ( 6–30 ) and if that particular item is not top of their agenda it should be . |
| 27 | Reports of a possible attack on Kismayu by Mr Jess 's supporters came as 15 Somali factions meeting in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa neared agreement on a new transitional authority in Somalia , without a government since January 1991 . |
| 28 | Family members too will have considerable feelings , and this might be an opportunity for a family meeting in the old person 's home , acknowledging the sadness for everybody of having to give up that home , accepting the necessity for more care , and with it the reassurance that the family will be vitally needed for continued regular visiting and involvement . |
| 29 | In 1988 the Consumers ' Association found that only 25 per cent of parents had attended a parent-teacher association meeting in the past twelve months and only 9 per cent had attended a school governors ' annual meeting . |
| 30 | Meeting in the Bulgarian port of Verna , officials from the six states agreed to establish marine protection centres in each country , and to set up a $32 million fund to support work on reducing oil , chemical and biological pollution and to improve fishing conditions . |