Example sentences of "meet [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 PETER 'S FRIENDS : Kenneth Branagh and chums meet for a crisis-ridden yuletide .
2 The AQUACHAMP fishkeeping club quiz sponsored by ‘ Aquarian ’ and Practical Fishkeeping reaches a climax in November as the top scorer 's nationwide meet for a free weekend for themselves and a partner at the Pontin 's Weston Super Mare-based Supreme Festival of Fishkeeping .
3 The novel has a contemporary setting and is about people who meet for an extraordinary dinner party .
4 ANOTHER capacity crowd is assured at Twickenham on May 2 for the Pilkington Cup final when Bath and Harlequins meet for an almighty battle .
5 In the week that council leaders meet for the annual conference of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities in Dunblane , he has made a further appeal for a less confrontational relationship , and one which puts people and the quality of services before politics .
6 Perhaps the most dramatic example of this is when people meet for the first time .
7 History in the making at Barbados : West Indian and South African players and officials meet for the first time in a Test match .
8 Fittingly the local-born lad took the first spot kick which completed the first leg of what could see the city 's two clubs meet for the first time in the last four .
9 ‘ Whenever the far end of an active edge A and the near end of an inactive edge I meet for the first time , if I satisfies A 's conditions for extension , then build a new edge as follows :
10 At the Lochy Bar in Caol ( pronounced cool ) just outside Fort William , Martin and I meet for the first time .
11 Generally primary schools meet with a great deal of public approval .
12 In secular western culture , however , the physical events of women 's lives meet with a resounding silence .
13 Measures which meet with the favourable resolve of both Houses are presented for the Royal Assent and thus become law .
14 at the outset of the search meet with the local firm to ensure full understanding of requirements .
15 He has a brave letter in yesterday 's ‘ Rhodesia Herald ’ , urging Smith to rethink : ‘ Now , while Zambia and Mozambique under their respective leaders desire an amicable settlement of our black/white dispute , the Government would be well advised to drop hard attitudes on such points as the venue , and meet with the full nationalist team in a bid to reach agreement . ’
16 When I meet with the American President in Berlin , I want him to believe he can trust me . ’
17 There is a methadone clinic nearby and on Saturday morning , if it 's raining , junkies , too , meet under the Romanesque arches .
18 You can be aware of what is going on around you and yet treat everyone you meet in a polite , friendly and respectful way .
19 if you meet in a public place ?
20 I live quietly now , but every year Fritz and I meet in a little town outside Ruritania .
21 With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together .
22 Even the tail is carefully protected , fitting snugly into a deep groove on the animal 's rump , where two sheets of armour meet in a vertical cleft .
23 They took it down to the burning gha where two rivers meet in a rolling pool of green and white , and where at night the restless spirits of the dead wall to the roar of the crashing waters .
24 When people meet in a social situation , they assess each other visually .
25 BRIAN Clough 's Nottingham Forest and Steve Coppell 's Crystal Palace meet in a bottom-of-the-table clash at Selhurst Park today that would have been unthinkable at the start of the season .
26 Team Components Bureau and Streamline Hazlehead meet in the other semi-final , neither side having won the trophy .
27 You used to meet in the Avenue , meet in the High Street .
28 As she approaches it , she can not at first see Alix , but she believes that Alix will be there , and indeed momently she is : they converge , Esther from the west , Alix from the south , and moderate their pace ( Esther accelerating slightly , Alix marginally slowing down ) so that they meet upon the very corner itself .
29 The usual method for reconciling different shades of opinion within the authority ( or area ) is the book meeting , at which representatives of the bibliographical services department and/or the areas meet on a regular basis to discuss the selection of new books .
30 The party groups meet on a regular basis and make collective decisions on policy .
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