Example sentences of "met in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the I 9605 , the curriculum development tide carried all before it ; programmed learners and audio-visual enthusiasts met in the general activity of rethinking methods and redesigning curricula .
2 I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place .
3 It is important to note here that although an analysis of individual texts follows , the point of this approach is to provide an overall picture of a pupil 's literary diet across a range of texts met in the lower years of the secondary school .
4 A nicer class of people than what you … what I meet … met in the ordinary way .
5 The main objectives of policy are , first , to enable the demand to be met in the right places , while preventing sites from springing up in the wrong places ; and , second , to allow caravan sites , where permitted , to be established on a permanent or long-term basis , in order to facilitate the provision of proper services and equipment and to allow the occupants reasonable security of tenure .
6 The sixth Inuit Circumpolar Conference , grouping Arctic peoples from Siberian Russia , Greenland , Alaska and Canada , met in the Canadian town of Inuvik , under the slogan " A common future for the Arctic " .
7 That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces .
8 Their need for information is currently met in the following ways :
9 ( We almost always met in the late mornings at his favourite café , always starting the day with a reviving bowl of café au lait , followed by another — and not infrequently another ! )
10 Docherty was betrothed to his first wife Agnes , an unpretentious Glaswegian who he had met in the late '40s at a social club dance when The Doc was an aspiring player with Celtic .
11 That same evening , but after Simon Cormack had fallen asleep and Sam Somerville lay in Quinn 's arms while the tape-recorder breathed into the wall socket , five time-zones further west the White House committee met in the late evening .
12 I was in a fever of vicarious excitement , looking at street plans of Florence and trying to remember the name of a boy I 'd met in the Boboli Gardens in 1961 , but friends and relations were wanting to know whether I had really vetted the family , whether I 'd like to hear a selection of au pair horror stories , and whether I 'd made good any gaps in my daughter 's domestic skills .
13 He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America .
14 There is no difficulty in the former which is not met in the latter .
15 I think there are two points there , firstly I think that the York greenbelt should not be drawn overly tightly , it should allow for some provision for peripheral post two thousand and six , because there will be inevitably demands arising in that period , which can not be met in the new settlement , and I disagree with the County Council on their approach on that matter .
16 Will the Secretary of State explain how he was able to commission a review of teaching methods in a matter of a few weeks , although his minimum standards — first laid down in 1981 — were not met in the 10 years that the Government allowed themselves , and the current review will not now report until the autumn ?
17 But what if some are being met in the private sector ?
18 But how is a health authority to know whether some of its population 's needs are being met in the private sector ?
19 Leaders of Algeria , Tunisia , Morocco , Libya and Mauritania , the member countries of the Arab Maghreb Union ( AMU ) formed in February 1989 [ see p. 36474 ] , met in the Algerian capital , Algiers , on July 22-23 .
20 The Sino-British Joint Liaison Group , which had been created to ease the transfer of power in Hong Kong to China in 1997 , met in the Chinese capital Beijing on April 24-27 [ for September 1989 meeting see p. 36894 ] .
21 On July 9 the leaders of Djibouti , Ethiopia , Kenya , Sudan and Uganda and a representative of the Somali government met in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa , in the context of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development ( IGADD ) .
22 Brazilian and Colombian army officers subsequently met in the Colombian border town of Letícia to discuss joint action against the rebels .
23 Representatives of the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) industrialized countries , which co-ordinated aid for eastern Europe and former Soviet Asia , met in the Albanian capital , Tirana , on July 22 in order to discuss with the Albanian authorities and international financial institutions how aid to Albania might be accelerated .
24 It says that reprocessing costs will have to be met in the short term from proceeds of the fossil fuel levy ( a 10 per cent charge on all electricity bills ) and other income .
25 Researchers have noted that many data-handling techniques depend upon assumptions which are hardly ever met in the social and behavioural sciences ( see 6.8.4 ) .
26 Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person .
27 Nye Bevan I had met in the 1950s — again through George Wigg — and had come to know almost intimately .
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