Example sentences of "meet the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Pack met the following week the broken fence had been repaired and the DANGER notice repainted in vivid red , so that no one could miss seeing it . |
| 2 | Never the most fluent of jumpers , she put in some unnecessarily extravagant leaps before settling down on the second circuit , but then met the final open ditch all wrong and deposited the hapless Mullins on the floor . |
| 3 | Unfortunately the use of a new gauge led to a simple practical problem — the break of gauge where the broad met the narrow gauge with the consequent need for transshipment of goods and passengers . |
| 4 | There it was again : that feeling of being mesmerised as obediently she met the ice-blue gaze which devoured her . |
| 5 | The sentence should have read it : ‘ It proved possible to maintain a limited number of local foster placements which would not have met the central standards of a specialist fostering team , but which met the temporary needs of certain local children more appropriately . ’ |
| 6 | He also met the Taiwanese Foreign Affairs Minister , Frederick Chien Fu , during the visit . |
| 7 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 8 | Never met the Aged . |
| 9 | Wexford looked up and met the shifty eyes . |
| 10 | Another official visitor was Barend du Plessis , the Finance Minister , while Helen Suzman , the best known of all the critics of the system in South Africa , met the Prime Minister a week ago . |
| 11 | A delegation of five Conservative MPs yesterday met the Prime Minister and left Downing Street convinced they had made ‘ enormous progress ’ in persuading Mrs Thatcher to make a one-off ex-gratia payment to the victims . |
| 12 | After a lengthy discussion with the Foreign Minister , Mr Qian Qichen , they met the Prime Minister , Mr Li Peng , and the Communist Party leader , Mr Jiang Zemin . |
| 13 | Disgusted by the latest battle between the quarrelsome politicians , he met the prime minister , Nawaz Sharif , and the president , Ghulam Ishaq Khan , separately on May 31st and told them to make peace or else . |
| 14 | On Aug. 7 Greguric met the Prime Minister of the rump Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) , Milan Panic , in Budapest , with the mediation of Hungarian Prime Minister Jozsef Antall . |
| 15 | After a weekend of uproar over reports that the Government intended to by-pass Parliament if defeated on the Maastricht bill and ratify the treaty anyway , Mr Hurd met the Prime Minister , John Major , the Leader in the Lords , John Wakeham , and the Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , at Downing Street yesterday morning . |
| 16 | WHAT a moving picture ( right ) of Kerry Needham when she met the blond boy who was not her son . |
| 17 | I had by this time met the latter . |
| 18 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 19 | It met the first two of the quarter-final matches head on as they tackled the shortish par-four 12th which , for a few minutes , became a monster and odd routes were used to reach the green . |
| 20 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 21 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 22 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 23 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |
| 24 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 25 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 26 | Jeremy Vole met the two hedgehogs as they joined the crowd . |
| 27 | I met the two brothers , Ernie and Sidney , last night . ’ |
| 28 | We pulled over and met the two drivers . |
| 29 | After 100 miraculous kilometres we met the other bus returning to Francistown . |
| 30 | Gregson met the other man 's gaze and pulled a small photograph from the inside pocket of his jacket . |