Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] meet [art] " in BNC.

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1 In attempting to carry out his economic policies the President had frequently met a central problem that was also to obstruct the social reforms he had promised — the difficulty of persuading Congress to pass the necessary legislation .
2 The tribal leaders who visited Mr Mandela have also met the top ANC leaders in Zambia .
3 Despite strong support from the Government benches for Mr Lamont 's proposals , Mr Hughes said : ‘ The Chancellor has not met the nation 's needs and he should go without further delay before he does more damage . ’
4 Well , Shannon had never met an idol yet who did n't possess feet of clay , and there was nothing to suggest he was the exception .
5 Barth had never met a real Anglo-Catholic before and was excited by what he found .
6 The group has already met the Republic 's Taoiseach , Albert Reynolds , and Ulster Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew , and today it completes its three-day visit with talks in west Belfast with Sinn Fein .
7 It is not surprising that this controversial Directive has not met the 1993 deadline , which the UK , centre of the European art market , says will drive the trade to the US , Switzerland or elsewhere .
8 The shepherding within the house church movement has also met a need in people seeking direction , howbeit often given in an over-paternalized way .
9 Bissett had once met the gaunt technician from A45 who had apparently received through a faulty glove a particle of plutonium the size of a pinhead and whose body had been cremated six months later before there could be an inquest .
10 The abortion pill has already met a storm of protest from anti-abortion campaigners .
11 I nodded ; then , on an impulse , I asked if McIllvanney had ever met a man called Jesse Sweetman .
12 Cleo had subsequently met the young De Belving several times at a squalid inn on the outskirts of the Burrows in order to have sex with him on a greasy , flea-invested bed in an upper room .
13 None of the pupils had ever met the other three visitors .
14 Charles had recently met a number of community cities , made such perfect sense and was so inspirational that he felt compelled to bring it to a wider audience .
15 Mills had apparently met a very loquacious Dennis Suit in a bar in Tegucigalpa , Honduras , and listened to him brag about the worldwide connections he had made in the course of his career as a self-proclaimed CIA agent .
16 He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around .
17 It was felt that this unit had not met the expectations of the department heads , and some improvements were necessary , without a clear definition of where these might be achieved .
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