Example sentences of "met [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Republican conspirators had found little support ; Picornell , whom we have met as a republican conspirator in Spain , failed to engineer a rebellion , while Miranda 's expedition of 1806 was a fiasco . |
| 2 | The pair met through a mutual friend , producer Terry ’ Housemaster ’ Baldwin . |
| 3 | It was a generous and bubbling woman called Meg who lived in a caravan and whom Lee had met through the Labour Party and liked enormously . |
| 4 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 5 | A considerable part of the total range of need is met through the basic social services of income maintenance , health , housing and personal social services . |
| 6 | ‘ It appears that different technologies imposed different kinds of demands on individuals and organisations and that these demands have to be met through an appropriate form of organisation . ’ |
| 7 | They had met during the early months of the war at the home of Woodcock 's uncle , the Midland Bank manager Fred Elt who , though respectably employed , was something of a Bohemian in his fondness for mistresses and for paintings . |
| 8 | I liked Terry more than anyone I 'd met for a long time , and we talked every day . |
| 9 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 10 | Among the throngs of passing students I was thinking fondly of Jordi when someone who was obviously an American passed by , and our eyes met for a split second . |
| 11 | Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up . |
| 12 | CARL Lewis , who bleated because he was n't allowed to run in the Olympics against Linford Christie , has ducked out of the World Cup in Cuba where they would have met for a 100 metres showdown later this month . |
| 13 | Evolution in the computer would then really take off , for the conditions would be met for a self-reinforcing " arms race " ( see Chapter 7 ) , and I dare not speculate where it would all end . |
| 14 | The European Council of heads of state and government met for a special summit in Rome on Oct. 27-28 . |
| 15 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 16 | Arising from the resolute opposition by the District to the Board 's proposals , a sub-committee was also established by the Cambridge Board to consider its relations with the WEA and met for the first time in May 1938 . |
| 17 | THE new Sussex Downs Conservation Board , which will have responsibilities for 600 square miles of countryside in West and East Sussex , met for the first time last week and elected Baroness Cumberlege as chairman . |
| 18 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 19 | The ‘ germ ’ of this story , I think , is the idea ( I do not know who first expressed it ) that couples of servants who apply for situations as man and wife have often met for the first time in the registry office . |
| 20 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
| 21 | It was an astonishing thing for a wife to say about her husband to a woman she 'd met for the first time . |
| 22 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
| 23 | Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair . |
| 24 | A wife I 'd met for the first time filled up |
| 25 | There were grandchildren to be met for the first time . |
| 26 | On Feb. 14 , however , Nichol met representatives of the Association of Chief Ambulance Officers , and on Feb. 20 management and unions met for the first time since October in a session with the Advisory , Conciliation and Arbitration Service ( ACAS ) . |
| 27 | The joint ministerial committee with Ethiopia , formed as a result of an agreement between the two countries in April 1988 to improve bilateral relations [ see p. 36006 ] , met for the first time on Dec. 4-7 , 1989 , in Mogadishu . |
| 28 | Hungary 's Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , elected in March and April [ see pp. 37325-26 ; 37380 ] , met for the first time on May 2-3 . |
| 29 | The new Cabinet met for the first time on June 12 and Shamir attempted to head off Arab-led calls for a special UN Security Council team to visit the West Bank and Gaza [ see p. 37443 ] by proposing that a UN envoy , Jean-Claude Aimé , should visit the area in their place . |
| 30 | The 109-member Constituent Assembly , comprising members of the Council of Ministers , representatives of the police and local government , traditional chiefs and in addition invited politicians , met for the first time in late June 1990 . |