Example sentences of "[be] met [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The primary aim is to provide an authentic analysis of key legal , administrative , and policy themes which can be expected to be met during the development and implementation of a integrated approach .
2 for Valuables and Portable Possessions , the balance should not be met under the Household
3 Policy requirements should be met through the development of a constabulary possessing rifles , machine guns and other equipment .
4 He stated that there would be no new taxes or loans to fund the shortfall and that the cost would be met through the sale of state corporations and of the government 's shareholdings in the major commercial banks .
5 Sponsors of the bill suggested that the cost of the latest extension would be met through the use of $2,200 million left unspent during the last fiscal year and of $500 million from an accelerated collection of taxes from large corporations .
6 Members of the Jafaar clan and other DEA couriers would arrive at Larnaca with suitcases full of high-grade heroin , white and crystal , and be met off the boat from the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh by officers of the Cypriot Police Narcotics Squad , who then drove them up to the Eurame office in Nicosia .
7 It is a long way to Talisker , and there are fewer beasts to be met on the river than on the land these days .
8 No sooner had they arrived in Bermuda than there was the stern challenge of the Irish to be met on the field , a barbecue to be arranged , the All Black cabaret act to be sorted out , the necessary mopeds to be booked , and the '91 brew of the ‘ Dark and Stormy ’ to be tested .
9 And there was plump , placid , erotically drained Stuart beside me , looking so fucking … blithe , pretending it was nice to be met at the airport , and probably thinking about how he was going to claim back some Danegeld on the unused half of their return billets from Gatwick to Victoria .
10 First night 's accommodation is prebooked for you and arrangements will be made for you to be met at the airport on arrival and transferred to your hotel .
11 Do you want to be met at the airport ? ’
12 Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence .
13 Where it is suggested to professional advisers , the suggestion will commonly be met with the caution and dubiety they naturally bring to a proposal lying outside their experience or practice .
14 If Brian sued John for negligence he could be met with the defences of volenti non fit injuria and contributory negligence .
15 Potential entrants are aware that any attempt at entry will be met with the launch of this new product , which will place the entrant at a disadvantage .
16 The nuclear establishment 's response to Mr Lawson 's invitation to prepare a new R&D programme for fast reactors ( New Scientist , 2 December , p 547 ) will almost certainly be met with the suggestion that without another large reactor there can be no R&D programme .
17 The conditions to be met for the provision of water for fighting fires are best discussed with the local Fire Brigade Superintendent , who will give details of the supply required and of any additional facilities , such as providing access to mill lodges for suction hoses of pumps , and any special precautions that are necessary .
18 Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) .
19 There will be requirement for part of Peter , North Yorkshire , part of the Greater York requirement that that is the new settlement required to be met outside the greenbelt and outside the the Greater York area .
20 I think I left the Bench at least with an impression that they had someone very special to deal with , I was , of course , all the time praying that no one for the police would ask for his Conduct Sheet , which they overlooked after making a dutiful response to the Bench , and I hurried away to be met outside the Court by Stewart , who at once asked me to lend him a pound .
21 While the demands of the rich and the affluent can be met within the framework of current housing policies , the needs of the poor increasingly can not .
22 It also recommended that children whose needs could not be met within the resources of the ordinary school should have a record ( which came to be called a ‘ statement ’ ) of their special educational needs drawn up by a multi-professional team .
23 For example , they have had and still have close links with well-defined groups like schoolchildren whose educational needs in terms of libraries and information can not always be met within the environment of the school .
24 For example , if expenditure on site access and servicing totalling £500,000 , were to be met in the proportion 80:20 ( Private Sector : Local Authority ) , an EC grant of up to £250,000 could be received by the Local Authority .
25 Dostoevsky owed a lot to Molière who is to be met in the notebooks but not to be pinned down in the major fiction .
26 In the Isle of Wight , the development of care programme systems and the need for monitoring were seen to require an increase in ‘ IT and support staff input ’ , although it is not clear whether this represented additional resources , and if so whether they could be met from the MISG or elsewhere .
27 The remaining costs of war had to be met from the surplus on the ordinary account and the balance left by Henry VII .
28 Liabilities must in the first instance be met from the partnership property .
29 ‘ In almost all cases the costs of fire damage have to be met from the authority 's own contingency funds . ’
30 A £46,000 grant to keep Cleveland 's Ring and Ride service on the road is to be met from the county council 's light rail transit budget .
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