Example sentences of "to meet [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The council of ministers agreed in June 1980 that the community should try to meet about three-quarters of electricity demand from solid fuel and nuclear power . |
| 2 | The ANC and the government are scheduled to meet for two days from Monday to finalise arrangements for the planning conference and to refine details of their bilateral agreements on transitional rule . |
| 3 | They decided to meet for 24 hours every nine months with an initial commitment of three years . |
| 4 | They agreed to meet for three or four sessions , after which a session would be held with her parents in order to assess progress and to help Pamela further improve her communication with them . |
| 5 | The negotiators agreed to meet for further discussions but did not set a date . |
| 6 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Most would welcome it and would also appreciate an opportunity to meet with other trainers . |
| 11 | Our church is a very special place , a place to pray and a place to meet with other people . |
| 12 | Every three months she returned to Henley to meet with other students — some international — also doing the course . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Purchasers should be encouraged to meet with potential acquisition candidates at the earliest opportunity after they have first been approached . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Earlier this year we began to meet with three other West Belfast groups with the view of jointly organising a conference on these issues . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It makes a lot of sense to meet with these other Christians so that you can all know and encourage one another . |
| 23 | The European Council began to meet in 1974 , at the prompting of France , which wanted the EC to have a guiding authority similar to the French presidency 's . |
| 24 | Yet another amazing coincidence , to meet in such a small place more than 100 miles from the nearest town ! |
| 25 | These targets were more difficult for some doctors to meet in deprived areas or in practices where the population moved frequently . |
| 26 | He was now preparing his speech to the Academy , due to meet in eight hours ' time at the behest of the military . |
| 27 | They began to meet in private houses where they read sermons and prayed together . |
| 28 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 29 | but in the very unlikely , very unlikely er position whereby Norfolk are absolutely adamantly oppose our proposals then as Mr said it 's very difficult for us to build in , in neighbouring authority , there is however one procedure left to us and that of course will be for us to meet in private act of Parliament , well that is er almost unthinkable , but we do have a final resort to that with a , in many ways the problems in Brandon have to be resolved by , by doing a bypass and if in the end we have to do that I 'm sure that |
| 30 | " This was where the strongest forces of all were found to meet in perfect union , " said Tran Van Hieu quietly . |