Example sentences of "meet the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the boy met the first Anglican priest who interested him in religion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The woman screamed , the man went for the bedroom door and met the first FBI man on the landing . |
| 4 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 5 | He then went back to Nigel 's room to see how the women were getting on — and met the first snag in the arrangements . |
| 6 | Wolsey met the first crisis by ordering the levy of a forced loan . |
| 7 | THE Prime Minister met the first British woman to reach the top of Mount Everest — and got her name wrong . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are no simple right or wrong answers to our questions , but in order to meet the first objective ( to teach problem definition skills ) , we must adopt a particular stance or ‘ model of practice ’ which enables precise analysis of situations . |
| 10 | In the rush to meet the first deadline on hours much of the spirit of the new deal has been lost . |
| 11 | Although the business only just failed to meet the first target , it did become financially self-sustaining six months ahead of schedule . |
| 12 | The move to school-led INSET , in Leeds as elsewhere , has the potential to meet the first two of these requirements , but not necessarily the third . |
| 13 | When Thorfinn was never to be seen in one place for more than a few hours , and when he no longer looked like a man with a fleet ready loaded for sea , but like a man already on board and lifting his ship to meet the first swell of the storm . |
| 14 | The group meets the first Sat in the month . |
| 15 | She smiles as she meets the first customers of the day . |
| 16 | I think it should be remembered that that public support actually was against a requirement of one thousand nine hundred dwellings , which is not quite the proposal being put forward by the County at the moment , but it is clear that there seems to me n not to be any public or great strength of public objection to the sort of proposals that are now before you in this enquiry , and it also seems to me that the reasons behind erm that that public support are essentially because it meets the first requirement of paragraph P P G thirty three , that the alternative expansion of existing towns or villages will represent a less satisfactory method of providing land for new housing that is needed , I think that is the essence of the public support , and so first of I think you can say that that 's that means that first criteria , and certainly it seems to meet the second automatically because it an expression of public preference . |
| 17 | All SWIFTAIR items receive priority handling and separate sorting so that they meet the first available flight to the country of destination . |
| 18 | I have a huge group of people who meet the first Thursday in every month |
| 19 | Some argue that the law in England vis-à-vis terminal patients does not meet the first of these criteria , and thus can not satisfy , ex hypothesi , the other two . |
| 20 | A brother or father 's brother of the bride should meet the first group ; a sister or mother 's sister of the bride the second group ; a cross-cousin of the bride the third group . |