Example sentences of "met [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In A.D. 318 , the then Bishop of Rome ( now known as Pope Sylvester ) is said to have met personally with eight Desposyni leaders — each of whom presided over a branch of the Church — at the Lateran Palace .
2 The weak anthropic principle states that in a universe that is large or infinite in space and/or time , the conditions necessary for the development of intelligent life will be met only in certain regions that are limited in space and time .
3 So far as we know they had met only in 1079 , when Eadmer was one of the young monks to whom Anselm talked during his first visit to Canterbury .
4 The running expenses of the actual Bureaux are met mainly from local sources .
5 The White Paper Caring for people demands a degree of inter-sectorial collaboration rarely met before in community-based services .
6 Since a high proportion of residents in Homes are frail , you may have to assist with nursing care and may come across conditions which you may not have met before in elderly people .
7 These chemical reactions would normally proceed very slowly were it not for Nature 's invention of complex molecules called enzymes , which we have also met before in this chapter .
8 We are met here in this place humbly recognising God 's power to direct the destinies of men and of nations .
9 Although government and rebels had met briefly in 1987 , it was the first time that army officers had agreed to talk with URNG representatives .
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