Example sentences of "have met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then , Cabinets have met without the monarch . |
| 2 | Its the first time the two men have met for a week and the outcome is that |
| 3 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 4 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 5 | Republican conspirators had found little support ; Picornell , whom we have met as a republican conspirator in Spain , failed to engineer a rebellion , while Miranda 's expedition of 1806 was a fiasco . |
| 6 | The Commission 's proposals have met with virtually unanimous opposition from the 12 member countries , and the commissioner in charge , Christiane Scrivener , has the unenviable task of persuading them to change their minds . |
| 7 | In some cases , we have met with open hostility , particularly from some parents , and we need to do more to dispel this . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ We have met with a wall of silence over this business . |
| 9 | Their hare-brained scheme to join two perfect strangers in an Italian retreat for a month would , in real 1920s life , have met with incredulity . |
| 10 | In 1738 Bartram journeyed to Williamsburg in Virginia with a letter of introduction from Collinson to John Custis : ‘ In the vegetable kingdom perhaps you will find him more knowing in that science than any you have met with . |
| 11 | For this reason , arguments for the existence of the monster based upon visual evidence have met with a good deal of scepticism . |
| 12 | Efforts to reduce stocking densities have met with little success due to the significance of cattle as a source of wealth and prestige rather than a source of income ( IBRD 1977a ; Doran , Low & Kemp 1979 ) , so that herd size has actually increased between 1968–77 in spite of government efforts to reduce it ( this being discussed further in Ch. 7 ) . |
| 13 | I 'm sure they have met with an accident . |
| 14 | Joseph Gamgee recorded that on his return from the Continent , Sewell said ‘ I have seen more lame horses while posting from Harwich to London than I have met with in all my journeys and during my inspection of veterinary schools and public places in France , Switzerland , Germany and Belgium ’ . |
| 15 | The WCA have met with the NRA to discuss access problems on the Sawdde . |
| 16 | Indeed , empirical attempts to categorise unemployment in such a way have met with many difficulties . |
| 17 | Those who have met with Cumberland jokes will realize that they are nearly always directly personal and intended to deflate pretension : the victims may well feel that this is not what passes for humour in ‘ polite society ’ . |
| 18 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 19 | In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success . |
| 20 | Plans to re-open Lydney Town Station have met with some local opposition . |
| 21 | Learning to use it fully and without embarrassment is a challenge , but one that many visually handicapped pupils have met with success . |
| 22 | Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis . |
| 23 | Greater weight will usually be given to propositions which have met with general approval among lawyers and commentators . |
| 24 | These exercises have met with acclaim worldwide for their ability to help villagers look at their lives critically and constructively with minimal input from the workshop leader . |
| 25 | The Conservative Government 's attempts at reviving the private-rented sector have met with very little success though in due course more substantial results are expected from the 1988 Housing Act . |
| 26 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 27 | For some years now , sociolinguists have attempted to extend quantitative methods to the study of syntactic variation , and have met with a number of problems which are both methodological and of a broader theoretical kind . |
| 28 | Better designed and better tested materials than ours have met with a similar fate . |
| 29 | ‘ Although it 's not so much I who has to please them as my ideas , since a lack of support would hamper or even prevent their implementation — but those I 've already mooted have met with even less resistance than I anticipated . ’ |
| 30 | Since formation in 1978 , ACAUS has sought reciprocity of accounting qualifications and have met with success in only a few states to date where foreign accountants are eligible to sit for the CPA examination ( examples include California and Illinois ) . |