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 | A nicer class of people than what you … what I meet … met in the ordinary way . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | That exception was Mr Stratton and Mr Brown , who had met in the Armed Forces . |
| 6 | Their need for information is currently met in the following ways : |
| 7 | ( 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 ! ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But what if some are being met in the private sector ? |
| 14 | But how is a health authority to know whether some of its population 's needs are being met in the private sector ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ] . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | Brazilian and Colombian army officers subsequently met in the Colombian border town of Letícia to discuss joint action against the rebels . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |