Example sentences of "been met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this first review the Security Council deemed that " the necessary conditions " had not yet been met for the lifting of sanctions . |
| 2 | Furthermore , the deregulation of bus services has shifted demand away from traditional large buses towards smaller ones , the demand for which has been met to a great extent by importers . |
| 3 | There seems to be no particular reason why the idea should not have cropped up earlier ( or indeed , later ) but , according to Bethe , its practical implementation could probably not have been much advanced because this depended on the development of high-speed computers and highly efficient fission triggers ; neither of these requirements could have been met at the beginning of 1950 . |
| 4 | We had been met on arrival ( a prior arrangement ) by members of the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust . |
| 5 | For the past five years the scheme 's costs have been met on a limited term basis through special funding by the Government and then by joint agency funding . |
| 6 | Never has the start of a new decade been met with such exciting business opportunities . |
| 7 | A version of this suggestion has already been met with as a possible explanation for some DOEs when it was suggested ( p. 159 ) that an expectancy of a reinforcer evoked by a sample stimulus will be more likely to persist in memory across the delay of a delayed MTS experiment than will a representation of the sample stimulus itself . |
| 8 | My colleagues may offer their opinions on the latter ; I can only assert that the first accusation is nonsense and if the allegation is true then I would love to know more about it but , regrettably , my request for further information has been met with silence . |
| 9 | Our teachers have mastered its methods with ease and it has been met with great success , interest and enthusiasm by our students . |
| 10 | So far , the good economic figures have been met with ‘ no thanks to you , John or Norman ’ , even from many Tory columnists and businessmen . |
| 11 | ‘ We are pursuing measures to make NT and SVR4 communicate with each other , ’ says Walker , though Microsoft claims its offers to develop interoperability with the two Unixes have been met with downright hostility . |
| 12 | The addition of the American mink to the British fauna has not exactly been met with jubilant welcome . |
| 13 | There is also evidence of similar disparities in the sentencing practices of comparable Crown Courts in different parts of the country , though attempts to conduct more rigorous investigations of the kind described above have so far been met with judicial opposition and refusal to cooperate ( see Ashworth , 1994 ) . |
| 14 | Good courses of ore had been met with in Deep Level , but Leathart pointed out , " the whole of the ground has been more or less worked prior to the present adventurers " . |
| 15 | Little water would have been met with and what was encountered was brought up in the kibble . |
| 16 | Not this breathtaking house , nor its even more breathtaking surroundings , and certainly not the warm , welcoming atmosphere she had been met with . |
| 17 | For NDT Systems , the UTEA-1 represents the first in-house designed and manufactured ultrasonic products , which has been met with great enthusiasm . |
| 18 | Is he aware that that proposal has been met with horror by advice agencies , legal aid practices and members of the United Kingdom Immigrants Advisory Service ? |
| 19 | given to those on state pensions has been met with a resounding raspberry ? |
| 20 | The fact that the Minister started his speech by talking about an annus mirabilis will have been met with incredulity outside the House . |
| 21 | Belgrade radio claimed that police used force only after their order for the demonstrators to disperse had been met with stone throwing . |
| 22 | Kim 's appeal for economic assistance was said to have been met with advice from Li Peng on running a market-orientated economy . |
| 23 | Brazil 's own environmental agency , IBAMA , was unaware of the project until deforestation began , and enquiries from journalists have been met with silence . |
| 24 | In Northern Ireland , as in the rest of the UK , these tables have been met with some controversy and suspicion . |
| 25 | And the news has been met with great excitement by scientists in Liverpool who say their colleagues ' work could provide the missing pieces in the puzzle . |
| 26 | Despite that , the Dairy Crest sell-off is just about the only part of the MMB proposals to have been met with enthusiasm by the rest of the industry . |
| 27 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 28 | In other words , despite all the efforts of people anxious to prove otherwise , the fact is that man 's need for a ‘ god ’ has always been met as a result of his own efforts , and at no time supernaturally . |
| 29 | In Nancy Cruzan 's case the original court became satisfied that this standard had been met after three of her friends testified that , prior to the accident , Nancy had expressed the wish never to live " like a vegetable " . |
| 30 | The cost of this booklet has been met by World in Need . |