Example sentences of "[verb] to meet [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In addition to pioneering ‘ green ’ techniques in areas such as pest control , a number of new businesses have been developed to meet the increasing concern for the environment .
2 It has been developed to meet the particular needs of the school .
3 The main thrust of the survey was to suggest how primary education could be developed to meet the educational requirements of children as well as the ever-changing needs of society .
4 The Group of Eight ( G-8 ) Latin American debtor countries ( Argentina , Brazil , Colombia , Mexico , Peru , Uruguay , Venezuela and Panama — the last having been expelled , however , on March 30 , 1990 — see p. 37373 ) meeting in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires on Dec. 4-5 , 1989 , issued the Buenos Aires Declaration , under which the Foreign Affairs and Economic and Planning Ministers agreed to meet every six months with a view to establishing a Latin American common market by 1992 .
5 At a meeting on Dec. 4 in Dublin United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major and his Irish counterpart Charles Haughey agreed to meet every six months , alternately in Dublin and London .
6 Mr Bill Loveluck-Edwards , voted best-dressed solicitor in town two years ago , failed to meet the high standards required by the bench in Bridgend , Mid Glamorgan .
7 Nevertheless , and irrespective of the debate on the degree of influence of annual weather variations on long-term ozone trends , the fact that 101 areas in the country failed to meet the 0.12 ppm ozone standard in 1988 is extremely worrying .
8 The system is already helping to meet the other tow goals ; it is balancing the response rate with the risk in order to predict profitability .
9 You 're the Carrot and I do n't want to meet the other fellah .
10 And this was not the only occasion on which he protested , in the 1920s and 1930s , at having the precepts that were formulated to meet the special conditions of 1914 taken as absolute and binding for all poetic situations at all times .
11 Several pamphlets issued recently by the Publications Department of the Cooperative Union are eminently suitable for this purpose ( 1 ) ‘ United action : Trades unionists and cooperators combine to meet the capitalist menace ’ , ( 2 ) ‘ Cooperation and Labour unrest ’ , ( 3 ) ‘ Cooperators and reconstruction ’ .
12 Had Edward in fact planned to meet the French army ?
13 Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march .
14 This evidence fits statements from Dennis Johnson , who had arranged to meet the suspected bombers around midday at 17 Campbell Road to hand over the keys to the holiday home .
15 They reason that they might as well make the same effort journeying to meet the other people in person .
16 In these cases the standing charge will be adjusted to meet the different period .
17 I urge them to continue to meet the necessary level of funding to maintain and update where necessary what has been achieved .
18 The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life .
19 Since an exchange 's rules are a civil contract , the prosecution only needs to meet the civil law standard of proof .
20 A number of courses have been organised to meet the particular needs of senior staff in the University .
21 It is to be noted that need is not referred to albeit that , in practice , many applications for interim payment are made with the specific intent of securing a sum designed to meet a specific need or requirement of the pursuer .
22 Each of the proposals is carefully designed to meet a clear deficiency in our present arrangements , that has been acknowledged by many of the organisations that have commented on the Green Paper .
23 Materials designed for the international English teaching market , as well as the more restricted range intended for use in the United Kingdom will be examined and discussed , as will the growing body of materials designed to meet a local need , and informally circulated .
24 It should be housing designed to meet a social need , directed towards those with no other means , no other option of getting a roof over their head .
25 New instruments and software packages from Perkin Elmer included the System 2000 , a new concept in FT-IR spectroscopy , designed to meet the changing requirements of analytical and research chemists .
26 Four related projects concerned with service provision , the assembly and enhancement of data and information and systems development are proposed : i ) The creation of a Midlands data base specifically designed to meet the expressed requirements of data and information users in the region .
27 Furthermore , Council is of the view that the proposed structure of single tier authorities is not designed to meet the long-term needs of local government but the short-term wishes of the Scottish Conservative Party .
28 Developed in close co-operation with leading car manufacturers , it 's a highly refined 10w/40 multigrade — specially designed to meet the new challenges of the 1990s .
29 Tailored awards , designed to meet the specific needs of particular organisations and employers , were also offered for the first time , attracting over 500 candidates .
30 Programmes are designed to meet the specific needs of organisations whether a senior management programme or a company MBA or Diploma .
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