Example sentences of "to meet [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRINCE CHARLES 'S closest friend is selling the Mountbatten art collection to meet debts of £4 million . |
| 2 | The plan had been criticized for being geared towards extracting the optimum " harvest " from remaining forests , of lacking consideration towards forest peoples and of being slow to meet requests for assistance from developing countries . |
| 3 | This allows the Registry to meet requests from student societies for lists and labels in support of membership activities , and to respond to requests from project students for assistance with questionnaire sampling and distribution . |
| 4 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 5 | The championships were organised with the Variety Club of Great Britain which gave competitors a chance to meet kids from the BBC 's Byker Grove . |
| 6 | He will be taking the young audience on an exciting musical safari to meet animals from around the world . |
| 7 | The travelling radio show , taking BBC people and shows to meet listeners around Britain , makes Cleveland its third stop this season . |
| 8 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 9 | Under liquid banks will have insufficient liquidity to meet demands on deposits the next day . |
| 10 | Gary Eichorn , general manager of Hewlett-Packard Co 's workstation systems group said he did n't think COSE in its initial guise would be enough to meet demands of users like the Galileo group , pressing for a generic common front end . |
| 11 | To meet demands for higher quality and relieve permanent shortages in some parts , the industry should conserve and recycle more water , said the report . |
| 12 | This is not just because giving practical expression to such broad objectives in any meaningful way is inherently very difficult , it is also because the superstructure has to meet demands for close and detached accountability : to parents , to governors , to local education authorities and , of course , to the Secretary of State . |
| 13 | Education , training and skills development is another way in which the government attempts to meet demands for labour . |
| 14 | The new Bill reflects the dilemma over protecting the children , the difficulties in obtaining medical evidence to substantiate suspicions of abuse , and the need to meet demands for parental rights in the wake of the Cleveland affair . |
| 15 | The government agreed to a 100 per cent pay increase , to meet demands for job security , to index wages to inflation , to set up an inquiry into the current salaries of health workers and teachers , to reinstate all workers dismissed since March , and to involve the unions in revising the Civil Service Law . |
| 16 | The referendum , only the third in Canada 's history , would enable the electorate to endorse or reject the constitutional package agreed in late August which sought to meet demands for greater autonomy for French-speaking Quebec and for the native Indians and Inuit populations , and offered increased representation within the federal legislature for the western provinces [ see pp. 39044-45 ] . |
| 17 | In an inflationary age those who had sound customary tenures reaped the benefits of fixed annual rents , but those tenants who were successfully challenged by their lords had to meet demands for considerable increases . |
| 18 | The two sets of pressures on the state — to meet demands for social welfare and other expenditure tied up with the legitimacy of the political system , and to provide the conditions for capitalist accumulation — were seen as leading to a growing ‘ fiscal crisis of the state ’ ( O'Connor 1973 ) . |
| 19 | This enables the National Central Control to supplement supplies coming ashore in order to meet demands during the coldest of winter days . |
| 20 | The Rayner Review stated : ‘ Particular attention needs to be paid to all information collected or costs incurred primarily to meet demands outside central government … in general there is no more reason for govermment to act as universal provider in the statistical field than in any other . |
| 21 | Those living in rural areas are likely to meet barriers to the fulfilment of their aspirations . |
| 22 | Therefore , the practice with the private sector is for employers and employees to make contributions to a fund at a rate which , combined with judicious management of the fund , should be sufficient to meet obligations to current employees at some point in the future . |
| 23 | In the face of the benign totalitarianism of leisure capitalism and its off-the-peg self improvement , The Smiths glamourized debility and illness , advocated absenteeism , withdrawal , the failure to meet quotas of enjoyment . |
| 24 | But if we are going to meet expectations of clients then really we have to know exactly what it is the client needs and would be happy with . |
| 25 | A producer is not required to meet expectations of safety which arise after he has supplied the product . |
| 26 | Although government capacity to meet expectations has declined , its capacity to meet expectations in the past built up a body of diffuse support , support that now exists independently of particular failures to meet demands . |
| 27 | It is helpful to specify concepts which underpin the content , e.g. kingship , migration , war and conflict and from these to highlight aspects which enable pupils to meet statements of achievement . |
| 28 | His first major costing exercise suggested that domestic consumers not only failed to meet costs on peak loads but , in all except one Area Board ( where the data may have been biased ) , failed even to cover the average costs of supplying them . |
| 29 | Usually it requires external funding to meet costs of staff and data processing . |
| 30 | Here , here , I second that on H on page thirty one very important one , the county council welcomes the recognition by the joint working party of the importance of meaningful support services to the elected members and the recomme recommendation that the Secretary of State should review and clarify the powers of local authorities to meet costs of services provided to members to enable them to carry out their duties as councillors Now the erm members appointments , appointments of member services sub have been discussing this issue and I would like to point out to members that we are not claiming the amount allowable for the paying members allowances we erm we 're way below the limit that 's allowable by the government Now before anyone say well what have you done about it ? |