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

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1 The cost of the work had been met piecemeal by the state as the network has developed .
2 The Minister will know that those targets can be met only by the air ambulance in my area .
3 They 've done it by an alteration in the way local government finance works , so that the cost of providing new council housing and the cost of maintaining existing council housing has to be met entirely from the rent paid by existing council tenants , and erm a certain amount of Government subsidy .
4 For the more expensive models , a downpayment is required at the start of the scheme , but it is still possible to obtain a car with little or no downpayment with the hire charges being met entirely by the mobility allowance .
5 In the Preface to the Wessex edition Hardy described how the music books of the choir were handwritten , hymns and psalms at the front , dances and ballads at the back ‘ till sacred and secular met together in the middle , often with bizarre effect ’ .
6 The Finance and Economy Ministers of Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Chile , Ecuador , Mexico , Peru and Uruguay had met together in the Chilean capital , Santiago , on Dec. 1-2 , to discuss a joint strategy ahead of the Bush visit .
7 And that but al as we said , a proportion of it we believe should be met not from the pension funds , but from the er from , from managers .
8 The philosophical message of Vegetius 's De re militari centred upon the need to defend the common good , and for that need to be met not by the employment of mercenaries but by members of the community adequately prepared to fight .
9 The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive .
10 It is understood that these solicitors ( Norton Rose ) have asked claimants to look to their own insurers first and that any claims in addition will be met up to the £2,700 Convention limit .
11 By five-thirty , I had met up with the lads and , content at seventeen miles , stooped in the twilight to hammer home the twenty-eight pegs .
12 Today we should have met up with the rest of the tribe but we are n't as fit as we might be .
13 Fazal said that you had met up with the men and had started work .
14 Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer .
15 Which is ironic , since we have met up at the Wardour Street , a company specialising in neurotechnology for the consumer .
16 In Newcastle on Tuesday , the challenges of Lyapunov 's scoring were met magnificently by the Philharmonia under the young Finnish conducter Esa-Pekka Salonen .
17 The two clubs have never met before in the FA Cup .
18 However , we suggested that this point can be met substantially by the traditional argument about economic policy making , that it is best to assign separate instruments to different targets .
19 Match fees and bonuses for winning pushed up the wages of the best players , but travel and hotel expenses had to be met out of the £5 or £6 payment for away games .
20 B and L said that the sums the receivers properly ought to pay themselves could be met out of the liquid assets in the receivers ' hands .
21 Yet , as reported in community Care ( Politics , 4 March 1993 ) most SSDs have strict criteria for eligibility for services , and ‘ only the most complex personal care needs can be met out of the money available . ’
22 The Social Security Act 1986 , radically changed the law by requiring special or emergency needs , which had previously been dealt with at the discretion of local officers , to be met out of the Social Fund under directions and guidance from the Minister who allocated funds to local offices .
23 The cost of the compensation was being met out of the money saved by cutting price subsidies .
24 The investors are unlikely to underwrite these fees until the transaction has been completed , when they can be met out of the funding provided .
25 However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds .
26 However , they apparently did not rule out eventual increases , although these would have to be met exclusively from the company 's own funds .
27 It is binding only if the conditions of the normal justification thesis are substantially met independently of the consent .
28 Booth 's cross was met strongly by the Finnish internationalist and his header from close range relieved any pre-match tension Aberdeen might have felt .
29 I hurried back to the house to be met immediately by the first footman saying : ‘ We 've been looking all over for you , sir .
30 The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine .
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