Example sentences of "met by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The courses have all been designed to provide the basic knowledge and skills needed to cope with the rapid developments which are met by professional engineers , along with essential practical and design skills . |
| 2 | Those of us who stayed faithful to the project found ourselves isolated , our findings met by polite scepticism at best . |
| 3 | Childhood sexuality , especially , within this harbour of emotional and sexual restraint ( ideologically at least ) , posed a particular challenge , and was met by simultaneous ( and of course , contradictory ) denial and control . |
| 4 | Thus part of the expense of an increase in government expenditure will be met by additional taxation receipts as national income and expenditure rise to higher levels than previously . |
| 5 | Any temporary shortfall of money for the government is met by issuing Treasury bills . |
| 6 | The Centre for Research on User Studies asked its respondents to indicate ‘ topics for which you think there is most need for external provision of training ’ , and while there was little evidence of lack of interest in external training or lack of perceived need , there was also little evidence of discrimination between needs that could be met by a range of methods and needs that could only be met by external provision . |
| 7 | The Gladstonian principle that public sector budgets should be balanced — increased expenditure met by increased taxes — was the accepted rule . |
| 8 | Since the cost of control usually returns few , if any , financial benefits to the discharger and has to be met by increased prices , dischargers regard pollution control costs as a burden to be avoided wherever possible . |
| 9 | Initially , the increase in demand in the UK is met by increased imports from Germany , that is , imports rise from q1 — q3 , to q1 — q4 . |
| 10 | Increasing demands on services estimated at costing 2 per cent more in real terms per year ( Benzeval and Robinson 1988 ) were to be met by increased efficiency rather than by increasing levels of funding to match . |
| 11 | LABOUR delegates were warned yesterday that the party would lack electoral credibilty if it promised increases in public spending which could only be met by higher borrowing or taxes . |
| 12 | The management committee is also to beef up the criteria to be met by new members of the League . |
| 13 | Operating theatres , accident and emergency departments and Day Hospitals may also have uneven workloads of a different pattern which can be met by part-time employees . |
| 14 | There he emerged from his battle bus , inscribed with the logo ‘ John Major The Best Future for Britain , ’ to be met by hundreds of shoppers , schoolchildren and pressmen . |
| 15 | The general principle is that the cost of those referrals will be met by each district 's contingency reserve , the guidance says . |
| 16 | Expectations that the child should hold the parent 's hand while crossing the road , or sit in the safety seat in the car , can be met by great outbursts of temper in the confident 2-year-old who wants to be totally independent . |
| 17 | The Housing Repairs and Rents Act , 1954 , reduced subsidies for general needs , but retained them for clearance of slums ; two years later subsidies for general needs were totally abolished , leaving the general housing need to be met by private enterprise . |
| 18 | The educational needs of people engaged in rural development action can not be met by present provisions . |
| 19 | Others may find their essential needs met by acted-out fantasy , as with the man who insists that his adult partner should dress and behave like a child . |
| 20 | Such allegations were repeated on Nov. 18 , but they were met by Russian accusations of Georgian involvement in the murder of three Russian troops in Abkhazia . |
| 21 | They were enemies of the sovereign , public thieves , full of vice , and atheists whose pernicious doctrine could only be met by illuminating men 's minds with geometry , physics , and astronomy . |
| 22 | The few who have attempted to query appointments at a local level have been met by shocked indignation and comments like : ‘ The fact of the matter is that the applications that we receive from doctors from the subcontinent leave much to be desired . ’ |
| 23 | The ‘ antagonism of interest ’ , which Green knew existed , could ‘ only be met by moral ideas appropriate … to the citizen stage … the reconciliation must come through a higher gospel of rights — the gospel of duty ’ . |
| 24 | The phrases ‘ deluge trickled down his neck , ’ and ‘ met by such a blast of wind and water that he could scarcely see the track ’ make Turnours ' journey seem physically unpleasant . |
| 25 | Personal needs have to be met by other supporting staff , by counsellors or by the significant others in the nurse 's life . |
| 26 | In some areas , such as domestic ( especially space heating ) sales ( as we shall see in Chapter 7 ) , the economists ' criticism that the demand could have been more efficiently met by other fuels was generally convincing , but they greatly exaggerated the extent to which electricity investment was dominated by the need to meet this demand . |
| 27 | He argues the company has tried to monopolise the market by convincing customers that its relational database management system is effectively the computer , making it appear that all other functions and tasks the user may want to perform are bound tightly to the database — requirements that can only be met by other Oracle products . |
| 28 | For these reasons I have considered anxiously whether , if the law should be held not to provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel , the need for adequate protection of the reputation of such an authority would be sufficiently met by other remedies . |
| 29 | The General Secretary and the C E C have to be quite clear , the cost will have to met by other means than altering our annual congress . |
| 30 | the bottom line is , is , is , is it not , that erm , er you 're suggesting that your clients legal obligations to third party policy holders should be met by other names at , I mean that 's the bottom line is n't it ? |