Example sentences of "met [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 20 Raffi Hovhannesyan and Hussein Sadikhov , respectively the Foreign Ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan , met for peace talks in Moscow . |
| 2 | Probably they all knew by now ; my uncle Michael was a great gossip , and he and my father often met for lunch at week-ends . |
| 3 | Targets were also met for postgraduate taught courses and postgraduate research . |
| 4 | FRED6 states that five criteria would have to be met for merger accounting to be used in the future . |
| 5 | Every Sunday all the family met for tea at my grandparents ' house . |
| 6 | Afterwards we braved the blizzards and all met for tea and home baking in the parish hall . |
| 7 | She turned to see the maid-of-all-work from St Jude 's Rectory , whom she had met after church last Sunday , staring at her . |
| 8 | This was met with dismay and objection , but the logic could not be refuted . |
| 9 | News coming out recently from financial and government circles indicating government plans to increase duty on paper to 15% was met with dismay . |
| 10 | However , the rise in all domestic fuel costs from April next year was met with dismay by Mr Heywood . |
| 11 | Campaigners , calling for the convictions of Tony Poole and Gary Mills to be quashed have been given renewed hope after Gloucester MP Douglas French , met with Home Office officials . |
| 12 | Mr French claims a key witness was never called to give evidence and he 's now met with Home Office minister , Michael Jack to explain why he thinks the convictions are unsafe . |
| 13 | Policies of economic redistribution to the less well off met with resistance from skilled workers at a time of low economic growth . |
| 14 | Some members of the Roman aristocracy became exceedingly Hellenised , but particular aspects of Greek culture met with resistance from the more conservative elements of Roman society . |
| 15 | Even Gloucester 's attack on their inheritance , usually a sensitive issue with the political community , does not seem to have met with resistance . |
| 16 | First , the review of objectives only allowed lay people to suggest the omission of objectives that they found inappropriate , and attempts to add to or change objectives met with resistance . |
| 17 | A Franco-Australian proposal [ see p. 37878 ] to ban mineral exploitation and designate the continent a " world park " , met with resistance from Japan , the United Kingdom and the USA at a meeting in Viva del Mar , Chile , in December of states party to the 1959 Antarctic Treaty [ see p. 37931 ] . |
| 18 | Janet Boulton , who spent two six-month periods doing portraits of geriatric patients in Radcliffe Infirmary in 1986 , has also met with resistance . |
| 19 | Even Gloucester 's attack on their inheritance , usually a sensitive issue with the political community , does not seem to have met with resistance . |
| 20 | But while much of Africa is clamouring for multi-party elections in the hope of replacing indifferent or corrupt governments , the prospect of political freedom is met with apprehension in Uganda . |
| 21 | They cried for mercy but their pleas were met with abuse and laughter . |
| 22 | Though these bits , unashamedly sentimental , met with laughter , it seemed most like a nervous release of the tension of the previous scenes . |
| 23 | Shivering and crying , their pleas for mercy were met with laughter and abuse . |
| 24 | Whereas in ( 1 ) B's talk is received seriously — without laughter , in fact with silence followed by supportive agreements — in ( 2 ) , V 's talk is met with laughter and is clearly perceived as joking . |
| 25 | The frequency with which Creole utterances are met with laughter in my conversational data is remarkable . |
| 26 | A turn which contains the Creole pronunciation is often met with laughter , as in ( 13 ) . |
| 27 | Met with Theology & Development students and church representatives . |
| 28 | On Tuesday morning , management met with ITGWU officials . |
| 29 | Their latest initiative was in Chile , where Davi Betts , Treasurer of WACC-LA/C , met with government officials to discuss aspects of the legislation concerning community radios which will soon be passed by the Senate . |
| 30 | The Northern Ireland Act 1982 provides for the existing Assembly ( which lacks both legislative and executive powers ) to make proposals for the transfers to the Assembly of legislative and executive powers but such proposals must be such as to be ‘ likely to command widespread acceptance throughout the community ’ and although attempts are currently under way to evolve such proposals , they have not so far met with success . |