Example sentences of "meet with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’
2 A number of tradesmen in the timber , textile and tin-plate industries looked upon coffin-making and funeral furnishing as something by which they could profit , and it was not unknown for some to meet with such success that they abandoned their established trade to go into undertaking full time .
3 The Dalai Lama visited the United Kingdom in March 1991 , when his appeal to meet with Prime Minister John Major was refused although he met Prince Charles and the Lord Chancellor , Lord Mackay of Clashfern [ see p. 38097 ; for December meeting with Major see p. 38679 ] .
4 The paper argues that further education reforms are likely to meet with limited success and that the way to raise educational standards is to promote greater expectations of , and aspirations for , educational success .
5 Most would welcome it and would also appreciate an opportunity to meet with other trainers .
6 Our church is a very special place , a place to pray and a place to meet with other people .
7 Every three months she returned to Henley to meet with other students — some international — also doing the course .
8 On his first ministerial visit to a hospital to meet with Bosnian evacuees , Dr Brian Mawhinney presented five year old Adis Avdic with a cuddly dinosaur , revealing his own daughter is a Jurrassic Park fan .
9 It is arguable to what extent Magnus Magnusson was personally responsible for the composition of the Cairngorm group and he issued a public statement saying he was most willing to meet with voluntary groups .
10 With Windows NT on Alpha and Mips RISCs — plus other RISC developments in the industry — DEC expects Intel Corp 's dominance on the desktop to meet with some serious competition .
11 Subsequent reports on July 24 indicated that the USA and the United Kingdom had agreed in principle to resume the air war against Iraq , and that US President Bush had cancelled all immediate engagements to meet with top US military advisers .
12 The comparison will show how far politicians ' views reflect those of the citizens , and hence the extent to which policy is likely to meet with popular approval .
13 Purchasers should be encouraged to meet with potential acquisition candidates at the earliest opportunity after they have first been approached .
14 Hanrott visited the Polytechnic in December to meet with senior staff and answer questions about procedures for the approval of CNAA courses , and throughout 1970 the Polytechnic was preparing submissions .
15 Earlier this year we began to meet with three other West Belfast groups with the view of jointly organising a conference on these issues .
16 She had , it appeared , been out on the knocker , ‘ like all of you , ladies and gentlemen ’ , an activity which seemed to meet with universal approval .
17 It makes a lot of sense to meet with these other Christians so that you can all know and encourage one another .
18 He meets with Israeli Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir and a 10-member Palestinian delegation led by Faisal al-Husseini .
19 Trapping is a method which meets with limited success and involves feeding within a specialised wire cage for a period of time .
20 16.8.4 Circumstances in which natural language indexing meets with many problems
21 Perez de Cuellar meets with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Jordan .
22 The new double post of Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de la Culture meets with some scepticism
23 Proposed lottery meets with public support
24 The invasion meets with widespread international condemnation and many countries immediately freeze Kuwaiti assets .
25 Make sure the lift you are having installed meets with these standards .
26 When the Council of Energy Ministers meets with those proposals before it , Opposition Members and the British coal industry would like to know what attitude Britain 's representatives will adopt .
27 And I 'm meeting with appropriate people in B R on Monday to decide when they will let me record .
28 Jacques Delors had originally intended to spend the afternoon looking around the JET Fusion Project at Culham … but his visit was cut back to just over an hour after an emergency meeting with Prime Minister John Major .
29 Brooke refused to postpone his scheduled Anglo-Irish conference meeting with Irish Foreign Minister Gerry Collins , suggesting that the all-party talks continue afterwards .
30 Meeting with Regional Railways , future services and clients ' reports .
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