Example sentences of "[be] met [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I try to use the shared bathroom I am met by the teenage mother — the one with two kids . |
| 2 | In August it was remarked in the Commons that , ‘ Wherever you go now in every constituency you are met by the aged people and their organizations . ’ |
| 3 | When I established our environmental objectives in 1990 , I recognised that we had set ourselves some very demanding targets which could only be met through the continuous commitment and effort of everyone involved . |
| 4 | Most of the deadlines that must be met for the new pay and file tax system are at least nine months on from 1 October 1993 , but one is already less than a year away . |
| 5 | There were grandchildren to be met for the first time . |
| 6 | The first element of need is erm the various estimates of commitments of potential land , erm and the argument is , erm , that the additional requirement can actually be met within the inner area , now we covered that at some length this morning , and refer to what we 've had said on that in a bit , I do n't propose to repeat it . |
| 7 | Firstly , in relation to users and carers , the practitioner may well be aware that she is identifying and discussing needs which are unlikely to be met within the current limits and range of available services . |
| 8 | The main requirement , that O&Y first raises enough funds to pay off a separate commercial paper programme , will be met within the next day or two . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 'm confident that the scheme wo n't cost anything like as much as the estimate , but I 'm , I 'm sure it 's right that it 's been , having having done some background work to see how many people might claim it I 'm confident that that we 've erred on the safe side here by a substantial amount , and that 's why I 'm sure it can be met from the overall budget . |
| 13 | If there is spare capacity then a rise in output Y t can be met from the existing capital stock , with no need for new investment . |
| 14 | Second , the discovery of mineral resources and the consequent development of metallurgical industries in Transbaikal and the Altai demanded more manpower than could be met from the local populations , and hence acted as a loadstone for the attraction of the necessary personnel to work them , in the form of both voluntary and forced labour . |
| 15 | In fact makes the claim that election expenses ought to be met from the public purse rather than the private purse of the candidates |
| 16 | This was the permissive factor which allowed the military needs of the state to be met from the indirect taxation of a wide range of consumer goods , which in turn funded the wartime borrowing needs of a country taking an increasing part in the state system of Europe . |
| 17 | Their teacher has said that the project ‘ has opened their eyes to the problems that have to be met by the elderly and disabled . ’ |
| 18 | These new provisions legitimate in particular the common claim that single people 's housing needs can be met by the private rented sector . |
| 19 | You will depart from Heathrow on a scheduled Kenya Airways flight to Mombasa via Nairobi where you will be met by the Kuoni representative and transferred to the Travellers Beach Hotel . |
| 20 | You will depart from Heathrow on a Thai International flight to Bangkok where you will be met by the Kuoni representative and transferred to the Jade Pavilion Hotel for your three night stay . |
| 21 | You depart from Gatwick or Manchester for Luxor where you will be met by the Kuoni representative and transferred to the King Tut which will sail from Luxor or Aswan . |
| 22 | In our view the need for adequate management of Campaigns and of Personnel will not be met by the present proposal . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the Japanese fleet arrived in the Tasman as promised , to be met by the new Greenpeace flagship , Rainbow Warrior II . |
| 24 | And I think that the alternative of the new settlement is by far the best solution , provided it is mixed with some peripheral development , one ca n't go into a position where there is all peripheral development or all new settlement , it has to be in perfect balance , because some needs can not of course be met by the new settlement . |
| 25 | There were two overriding needs which had to be met by the Roman road network — military and economic . |
| 26 | In 1989 Brazil faced a critical shortage of fuel alcohol , used to run more than a quarter of passenger cars , because the rise in demand ( 48 per cent since 1985 ) could not be met by the stagnating production of sugar cane . |
| 27 | Whilst we will agree to meet the fees involved in producing the arboriculturist 's report , the actual costs of tree removal or pollarding ( severe pruning ) fall outwith the scope of the policy and require to be met by the insured . |
| 28 | Any possibility of excessive delay could be met by the English court fixing a date for trial ; and it could control the allocation of costs . |
| 29 | The rapid growth of the secondary banking sector meant that unsatisfied demand for credit from the primary banks could be met by the secondary banks ; this sector not being subject to the liquidity ratio requirements . |
| 30 | And the Secretary of State had declared what might otherwise be regarded as a powerful if not irresistible force would be met by the immovable object of US resolution . |