Example sentences of "[adj] meet the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know how the British press sees Austrian politics but there was a short note in the Daily Telegraph announcing that Margaret Thatcher was due to meet the Austrian President and you , with the headline ‘ Thatcher to meet von Karajan' ! |
| 2 | Representatives of the steering group are due to meet the Labour-controlled council 's insurers , Municipal Mutual , next month to negotiate the final details of the compensation agreement . |
| 3 | Senior party members were due to meet the American delegation — who arrived in Ireland today on a fact-finding visit — but were reconsidering after it was revealed that the group will meet Sinn Fein . |
| 4 | During his two-week visit to Britain he is due to meet the foreign secretary , Douglas Hurd . |
| 5 | Treswell , like other heraldic painters , transferred his skills to map-making to meet the increasing demand for estate plans in the vigorous property market after the dissolution of the monasteries and the Reformation . |
| 6 | As a result , one of the central policy priorities of government has been to strengthen significantly the academic infrastructure so that research and postgraduate training activities are adequate to meet the future needs of industry , especially in what have been termed ‘ exploitable areas of science ’ . |
| 7 | So what if services are not , for the time being , adequate to meet the assessed needs ? |
| 8 | He resigned , no longer willing to meet the political price demanded by Congress ( I ) for its parliamentary support [ see p. 38101 ] . |
| 9 | These are a practical necessity and it would be quite impossible to meet the present demand for meat and dairy products , except in certain rural areas , from the products of traditional farms that were the order of the day in Europe and North America up until the Second World War : |
| 10 | Readers were also still snapping up copies of Thursday 's paper after we rushed out 403,000 extra to meet the overwhelming demand . |
| 11 | Every year each region 's allocation was merely rolled forward with small additions to the previous year 's spending and extra to meet the current costs of new hospital premises . |
| 12 | Mrs Shephard is demanding extra to meet the soaring cost of unemployment ; |
| 13 | If the Government were likely to meet the full cost , the proposal would be unnecessary . |
| 14 | Likely to meet the Scottish club are Yorkshire 's Ilkley , who re-confirmed their serious intention to succeed in 1992 by beating lowly-placed Barnard Castle School , and then following up this home victory a few days later with a 3–0 away success in a delayed fixture against Topspin Darlington . |
| 15 | Where traditional own resources are inadequate to meet the new expenditure ceiling , the fourth resource comes into operation . |
| 16 | Yet , while many chairmen persisted in denying it , the probability is that domestic prices remained inadequate to meet the overall costs of supplying domestic consumers , as they had been on nationalisation , though now for a new set of reasons , which betrayed a continuing inadequate degree of attention to proper costing exercises . |
| 17 | Finally , the total rates collected by this method were often inadequate to meet the increasing cost of local government spending on education , etc . |
| 18 | On various occasions the resources of the EC have proved to be inadequate to meet the growing demands placed upon the budget . |
| 19 | However , domestic supplies of low-sulphur oil were inadequate to meet the potential demand and the oil embargo of 1973 dramatically highlighted this problem . |
| 20 | The installation of a CO2 snowing or snowshooting system can save considerable costs or inconvenience when existing cold stores are not large enough , or dwell times in the store are too short to meet the new temperature regulations . |
| 21 | Sunderland are starved of cash and will probably be unable to meet the financial requirements of both Everton and the player . |
| 22 | Jordan was apparently concerned that it would be unable to meet the estimated cost of US$1,000 million . |
| 23 | Quickly Gina glanced away , unable to meet the sparkling magnetism of his eyes with any pretence of equanimity . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , of course , ’ she said in confusion , unable to meet the penetrating glance of his brown eyes . |
| 25 | France ( as does the UK ) operates a system of aids for farmers unable to meet the comparable income criteria for development plus . |
| 26 | Obesity in later years leads to insulin resistance , and the functional β cell mass , programmed in leaner times , may then be unable to meet the rising demand for insulin . |
| 27 | Unable to meet the huge cost of the highly specialised asbestos de-contamination work then demanded of the entire Pullman set , SLOA agreed to sell the Pullmans to industrialist Sir William McAlpine ( better known to railway enthusiasts as the owner of Flying Scotsman ) and to hire them back for steam-charter use once the asbestos stripping work was complete . |
| 28 | She was unable to meet the intense look in his eyes , and her lashes fluttered wildly against her cheeks . |
| 29 | Not all 18-year-olds wish to enter nursing but many who do are unable to meet the academic requirements . |
| 30 | In contrast to the existing system , the new solution had to be fully flexible , and able to meet the future demands of and grow with the company . |