Example sentences of "could [be] met [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Brian sued John for negligence he could be met with the defences of volenti non fit injuria and contributory negligence . |
| 2 | Second , the discovery of mineral resources and the consequent development of metallurgical industries in Transbaikal and the Altai demanded more manpower than could be met from the local populations , and hence acted as a loadstone for the attraction of the necessary personnel to work them , in the form of both voluntary and forced labour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | That could be met by the division of the spheres in which the divided sovereign acted upon different collective advice . |
| 5 | In a paper given at the Hydrocarbons 1983 conference in March 1983 , BP propounded the view that the supply shortfall towards the late 1980s could be met by the development of UK reserves , and identified 50,000 billion cubic feet of recoverable new gas — two-thirds in discoveries and one-third in undrilled geological prospects . |
| 6 | The rapid growth of the secondary banking sector meant that unsatisfied demand for credit from the primary banks could be met by the secondary banks ; this sector not being subject to the liquidity ratio requirements . |
| 7 | Any possibility of excessive delay could be met by the English court fixing a date for trial ; and it could control the allocation of costs . |
| 8 | The environment will generate demands which could be met by the increment in the budget without challenging the existing budget thus leaving existing programmes of expenditure untouched . |
| 9 | It was much harder to show that the economy of large estates was superior to that of medium or even small units , especially when most of the labour demands of such units could be met by the virtually unpaid labour of large peasant families . |