Example sentences of "be met [prep] " 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 | I am met by another answerphone with the friend 's voice on it . |
| 3 | He takes her to live in the Valley of Paradise , where all her desires are met except one , which is to see the face of her husband . |
| 4 | Their needs are met to varying degrees by the home , parish or deanery . |
| 5 | They have the choice once the threshold conditions are met of making a care order , of making a supervision order , or of making any other order under the Children Act 1989 . |
| 6 | The important point is this : is the use of an overseas company like Sterling ( where inquiries about the real ownership of shareholdings in threatened companies are met with a polite but firm snub ) acceptable within a legalframework trying to ensure fair play ? |
| 7 | Species resembling this one in general shape are met with in rocks of Cretaceous and younger age . |
| 8 | ‘ A person who returns from a course anxious to practise a new technique or skill will quickly lose enthusiasm if efforts are met with hostility or indifference . |
| 9 | Social needs are met with familiar faces attending each week and consultations with the same nurses and doctors . |
| 10 | G. Higgins in Celtic Druids reminds us that ‘ The remains of the worship of the bull , or the sun in Taurus , are met with everywhere — all over India , Persia , Greece , Italy and Britain . ’ |
| 11 | My protests are met with a simple choice . |
| 12 | Also , as an immigrant to Canada , I can affirm it 's more pleasant living where problems are met with cheerful optimism instead of the sullen whining which passes for debate in Britain . |
| 13 | Questions about the products suitability for use with forthcoming Apple products are met with a degree of silence reminiscent of a Trappist monk but the general assurance is that the product is ‘ future proof ’ , at least so far as Apple is concerned . |
| 14 | When the NHS grabs the headlines , which it characteristically does at election times , the arguments rarely get beyond statistical claims and counter claims on the issue of " underfunding " , or charges of sinister intent which are met with protestations of undying fealty to the " principles " of the NHS . |
| 15 | What is striking about the refusals in the two extracts above is that both are given immediately , without any pause , and both are met with following laughter . |
| 16 | The frequency with which Creole utterances are met with laughter in my conversational data is remarkable . |
| 17 | Training and Education The Group Training Department ensures that training requirements are met for all employees . |
| 18 | We retire to the hotel bar early in the morning and are met on arrival by Big Al Jourgensen wearing a George Bush mask and clutching a can of hi-fi contact clear . |
| 19 | In practice , however , these conditions are met on very rare occasions so that one might conclude that spatial differences in economic potential are unlikely ever to be equalised . |
| 20 | If evaluation is defined as assessing how effectively needs are met at a given cost , then precise identification of needs is obviously paramount , as the Guideline on Evaluation notes , most emphatically : ‘ Without proper identification of need , evaluation is meaningless ’ . |
| 21 | Such an exercise would help to ensure that the perceived needs of pupils are met at their different stages of development . |
| 22 | Emotional and personal needs are met within this smaller unit . |
| 23 | The Commission has to be satisfied that the various criteria are met before adding the areas to the EEC list of LFAs . |
| 24 | Finally , in the event of a bank ceasing to conduct business , as a result of insolvency and its liquidation , the shareholders are paid back their capital contribution only after all the depositors ' claims are met in full . |
| 25 | The method is designed to help analysts to make enquiries about how well the information requirements are met in practice , so that areas of potential improvement can be highlighted . |
| 26 | But only the Bible assures us that both of these needs are met in Christ . |
| 27 | The good news is that these needs are met in Christ . |
| 28 | In all these cases the court has been concerned to ensure that these fundamental requirements are met in the way in which , particularly in the case of the county courts , they are intended to be and should be met . |
| 29 | Society has accepted responsibility for seeing that their needs are met in a piecemeal fashion , tackling the most obvious needs first — those for financial provision , medical care and residential accommodation . |
| 30 | I 've scoured the the technical professional press to find out if there is some general statement which sums up what sustainability means , and the one which I 've seen most commonly referred to , I think , and the government has used it in this way , is a requirement to ensure the needs of the present generation are met in a way which does not prejudice future generations , now I do not believe that a properly conceived and located new settlement is any less sustainable in the long term that other forms of urban growth , and by properly conceived I 've got to say I believe that to mean properly balanced er form of development for the new settlement , and I think I would say that new settlements have usually been proposed because continued infilling , like the the normal forms of accommodating further development requirements , infill , and peripheral development , have been determined in York context not to be sustainable , the sorts of issues which arise as a result erm of additional development in or on the edge of York and the surrounding villages , problems of additional congestion , loss of green space in towns , loss of employment opportunities and so on . |