Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] met [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 " . |
| 4 | Recognising an emergency , the four British public collections strongest in Old Master drawings met at the British Museum ; these were the National Galleries of Scotland , the Ashmolean and Fitzwilliam Museums and the British Museum itself . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The loom shed was , by now , used by a firm of silk throwsters , their comparatively modest power requirements met by the remaining water wheel . |