Example sentences of "to meet [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the meantime we must not forget that we have tough targets to meet for the current year . |
| 2 | We also thought that on the feast of St Thomas More , June 24th it would be a good idea to celebrate the feast in the evening in the school hall when we can all gather to meet for the first or last time and say ‘ Hello ’ and ‘ Good-bye ’ as appropriate . |
| 3 | The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted . |
| 4 | It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable . |
| 7 | Elena has now returned for more plastic surgery and although her family does not have to pay for the treatment , there will be hefty travelling expenses to meet during the next few years . |
| 8 | Well we were supposed to meet after the last meeting which was cancelled . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The designer is provided , therefore , with an early indication of the mechanism 's failure to meet with the specified operating conditions . |
| 12 | His first port of call will be London where he is to meet with the British Prime Minister . |
| 13 | they are likely to meet in the outside world ; |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality . |
| 16 | For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B. |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Matron said she 'd find the others and they arranged to meet in the sick bay . |
| 20 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 21 | So we continued to meet on the sly . |
| 22 | The county chairman Brian Walsh said : ‘ We have a very full agenda for our scheduled meeting on October 26 so it was decided to meet on the 10th with cricket as the sole topic of discussion . ’ |
| 23 | Compaq has set UnixWare some milestones to meet over the coming months . |
| 24 | They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | We arranged to meet at the next new mum 's group at my house the following week . |
| 27 | They parted at the hatshop and made an arrangement to meet at the same time the following day . |