Example sentences of "[noun] met [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
2 | They changed to a strategy-management mode in which each of the business heads met with the entire executive board once a year to define strategic objectives and once a year to establish a budget . |
3 | Following the elections the main pro-military parties met with the leading members of the junta to attempt to form a workable coalition . |
4 | The increased use of lower courts met with the general approval of officials . |
5 | As the two hellraisers met for the first time for the benefit of the world 's press , they exchanged jokes . |
6 | The five CODESA working groups met for the first time on Jan. 20 in Johannesburg . |
7 | All was in vain ; the poor law functions of the Boards of Guardians were transferred to the County Council , and on March 29th 1930 the Board of Guardians met for the last time . |
8 | The National Administrative Council met on the following weekend to discuss the situation which had arisen . |
9 | As a result , the Committee met on the 3rd tee in December and finally decided to raise it a foot all over and to put up a viewing platform on the right hand side . |
10 | Early in 1914 , the Board felt it advisable to appoint a House Committee to deal with the day-to-day affairs of the Institution , and the committee met for the first time on 28th April with Mr. W. T. Lansberry in the chair . |
11 | The Committee met for the first time in Edinburgh in October 1979 . |
12 | The committee met for the first time on August 12 , to define its aims and draw up a policy programme for the future . |
13 | That same evening , but after Simon Cormack had fallen asleep and Sam Somerville lay in Quinn 's arms while the tape-recorder breathed into the wall socket , five time-zones further west the White House committee met in the late evening . |
14 | In the I 9605 , the curriculum development tide carried all before it ; programmed learners and audio-visual enthusiasts met in the general activity of rethinking methods and redesigning curricula . |
15 | It is important to note here that although an analysis of individual texts follows , the point of this approach is to provide an overall picture of a pupil 's literary diet across a range of texts met in the lower years of the secondary school . |
16 | The Group met for the first time in March 1974 with several proposals already before it . |
17 | This body met for the first time in May 1989 and elected from its members the bicameral 542-member Supreme Soviet — the working constitutional body responsible for all legislative and administrative matters — consisting of the Soviet of the Union and the Soviet of Nationalities . |
18 | The new body met for the first time , in the building of the suspended National Assembly , on April 25 . |
19 | During his visit Xu met with the nominal leader of the Khmers Rouges , Khieu Samphan , but apparently failed in his attempt to persuade the Chinese-backed faction to rejoin the peace process . |
20 | When the new Assembly met for the first time on Sept. 24 , seven opposition members refused to take their seats , claiming that the election had been rigged . |
21 | The High Authority met for the first time in the autumn of 1952 , and immediately set about trying to turn the principles of the Treaty of Paris into practical results . |
22 | When these principles are implemented , the amount of total demand met on the vertical part of short-run marginal cost curves will depend on the level of total capacity . |
23 | The new Cabinet met for the first time on June 12 and Shamir attempted to head off Arab-led calls for a special UN Security Council team to visit the West Bank and Gaza [ see p. 37443 ] by proposing that a UN envoy , Jean-Claude Aimé , should visit the area in their place . |
24 | It was a raw morning in late November when a small group of members met at the Free Trade Hall for a rehearsal of the Halle Orchestra . |
25 | On July 9 the leaders of Djibouti , Ethiopia , Kenya , Sudan and Uganda and a representative of the Somali government met in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa , in the context of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Drought and Development ( IGADD ) . |
26 | On the twenty fourth July nineteen ninety one the new resources and policy grant sub-committee met for the first time and considered a number of applications including one from your organisation . |
27 | Regional CPD convenors met at the third CPD Forum in Windsor in October , which was this year sponsored by the Architects ' Journal . |
28 | The loom shed was , by now , used by a firm of silk throwsters , their comparatively modest power requirements met by the remaining water wheel . |
29 | The conduct of the elections met with the overall satisfaction of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) , which had sent a mission at Fujimori 's invitation to observe the poll [ see p. 38908 ; 39804 ] . |
30 | The seven-member committee of the Arab League met for the first time in Cairo , also on April 7 . |