Example sentences of "[noun] met in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Parliament met in the autumn of 1381 , the Speaker expressed the view that the troubles had been caused by abuses in government , notably by purveyance for the royal household and by the levy of taxation for the defence of the realm , particularly as this did not prevent the King 's enemies from raiding England . |
| 2 | On 17 September Bevin and Acheson met in the State Department ; Acheson stated that the American government had decided it was necessary to proceed with a peace treaty within the near future . |
| 3 | Refining ideas which Ruskin had been the first to promulgate , ( Sir ) Robert Hunter , Octavia Hill , and Rawnsley met in the offices of the Commons Preservation Society on 16 November 1893 and founded the organization which , eight months later , was inaugurated under the presidency of Hugh Lupus Grosvenor , first Duke of Westminster [ q.v. ] , as the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty . |
| 4 | On 7 August friends and colleagues of Bill Jamieson met in the conference room Glasgow to wish him well on his retirement . |
| 5 | KEVIN KEEGAN and I made all the headlines for being sent off and throwing our shirts down last time Leeds and Liverpool met in the Charity Shield . |
| 6 | Last Monday , as Smith and Muzorewa met in the railway carriage , an ANC man — a methodist minister , like Muzorewa , and close to the heart of the ANC — led the Caux Assembly in prayer for this land . |
| 7 | When Gertrude Jekyll and Edwin Lutyens met in the spring of 1889 , she was an eccentric spinster of forty-five , whose myopic eyesight was beginning to restrict her many talents , and in particular her outstanding work in garden design . |