Example sentences of "to meet [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Red-crested waves rear up like snakes , nicking off bloody foam , thundering out to meet the oncoming sea . |
| 2 | Angel One took one swift pace forward to meet the oncoming Satan , and his blood-smeared right hand pistoned forward , fingers extended and ramrod stiff . |
| 3 | In addition local authorities will have to meet the annual bill for personnel and administration , and the on-going expense of maintaining the museum buildings and exhibits . |
| 4 | This was well below the levels which had been necessary to meet the annual growth of demand before the War ( 712MW had been completed in 1938 ) , and also well below the level of around 1000MW a year which the CEB now considered necessary . |
| 5 | All applicants for admission from outwith the United Kingdom or European Community , applicants who are temporarily resident in the UK or EC at the time of application and those who have within the past three years spent a period of employment or residence outwith the UK/EC are advised that they should be certain of their status for fee purposes before registering for their courses at the start of the academic year and be certain that they have the necessary funds to meet the appropriate fees , and for subsistence throughout the course of study . |
| 6 | You are invited to send a representative to meet the Japanese team at 12.15am on 23 March at British Gas Bristol North District offices . |
| 7 | Several pamphlets issued recently by the Publications Department of the Cooperative Union are eminently suitable for this purpose ( 1 ) ‘ United action : Trades unionists and cooperators combine to meet the capitalist menace ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ Cooperation and Labour unrest ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Cooperators and reconstruction ’ . |
| 8 | The low-emission consortium deals with technology that will cut petrol engine emissions to meet the tightening regulations . |
| 9 | These are a practical necessity and it would be quite impossible to meet the present demand for meat and dairy products , except in certain rural areas , from the products of traditional farms that were the order of the day in Europe and North America up until the Second World War : |
| 10 | This is expressed in Article 12 of the Convention which is an adaptation to meet the new range of modes of service of corresponding provisions in the 1954 Convention . |
| 11 | Microsoft have already moved strongly to meet the new generation of MS-DOS multimedia computers which is about to emerge . |
| 12 | The two Hearthwares turned to meet the new foes , but Bicker 's blade had already slid into the throat of one , and Isay 's staff had split the skull of the other like a bruised apple . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , Father told me you 'd opened the new girls ’ school , so I simply had to come to meet the new schoolteacher . |
| 14 | Country Landowners Association president Lord De Ramsey became one of the first of British agriculture 's leaders to meet the new Minister . |
| 15 | Another way of viewing them , however , is from the bottom up : as expressions of concern about the ability of the Conservative party adequately to meet the new challenges . |
| 16 | Furthermore , MDC 's capacity to meet the new challenges has to be questioned , since it has been granted limited additional resources and has recruited no extra staff to meet its wider remit . |
| 17 | Developed in close co-operation with leading car manufacturers , it 's a highly refined 10w/40 multigrade — specially designed to meet the new challenges of the 1990s . |
| 18 | Familiarisation of all health care workers with changes in policy and the background of research and development and aims of policy would eliminate some of the frustrations and create a more supportive environment for Health Care Workers who are involved in implementing new policies acknowledging the need for change to meet the new challenges . |
| 19 | Perhaps , as officials contend , faces will be saved by a last-minute rush to meet the new deadline . |
| 20 | His senior aides are convinced they can speed up the Maastricht ratification process to meet the new deadline . |
| 21 | On the other hand , practices whose procedures are well organised and geared up to meet the new deadline will surely benefit from the new regime . |
| 22 | Where traditional own resources are inadequate to meet the new expenditure ceiling , the fourth resource comes into operation . |
| 23 | Tioxide 's major waste reduction programme is well under way at sites throughout Europe to meet the new EC Titanium Dioxide Harmonization Directive . |
| 24 | centres where SCOTVEC has identified concerns , based on previous experience , on the effectiveness of the internal quality systems and assistance to meet the new criteria may be required . |
| 25 | The practical key to Arsenal 's rise was the balance effected between defence and attack , to meet the new conditions of the changed offside law . |
| 26 | He travelled abroad incessantly , making at least two major foreign visits a year : in 1989 , for instance , he carried out official visits to Britain , France , Finland and West Germany , visited Cuba , East Germany and China , took part in the first-ever summit between the Soviet Union and Ireland during a stop-over at Shannon airport , and still found time to meet the new US President George Bush in December after a state visit to Italy and a first-ever meeting with the Pope . |
| 27 | Such a move is only a matter of time , but the time-scale will vary considerably from authority to authority depending on the phasing-in of their delegation schemes and the speed at which they restructure the various service departments to meet the new role which has to be created within the strategy and time-scale set down by the legislation . |
| 28 | Increases necessary to meet the new rate demands were limited to 15 per cent each year for smaller businesses and 20 per cent each year for larger businesses . |
| 29 | A foreign office contact once described in awe-struck terms how , when an African government changes , the first person from Britain to meet the new ruler is often not our ambassador , but Tiny Rowland . |
| 30 | He lives among ‘ high art and painted glass , spade farms , and model smell-traps , rubricalities and sanitary reforms , and all inventions , possible and impossible , for ‘ stretching the old formula to meet the new fact ’ ’ . |