Example sentences of "to meet [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The full committee was due to meet for a final session in mid-February , prior to presentation of the Basic Law to the Chinese legislature for approval in March-April 1990 .
2 ‘ In the meantime we must not forget that we have tough targets to meet for the current year .
3 The environment working group of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) is finally to meet for the first time — 20 years after it was first constituted .
4 It was n't only the bride , but the bride 's family she was to meet for the first time .
5 Alan Beith , the Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman , said : ‘ This Budget is the bill taxpayers are having to meet for the catastrophic mismanagement of the economy under the Conservatives .
6 The Act required the whole school to meet for the daily act of collective worship unless the school premises made this impracticable .
7 Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 .
8 Well we were supposed to meet after the last meeting which was cancelled .
9 To suggest to them that the skin is capable of absorbing essential oils by diffusing them across the fine blood capillaries ( under the surface of the skin ) and into the main bloodstream is bound to meet with a certain amount of scepticism , if not ridicule .
10 He erm he was n't giving evidence at the enquiry , but erm it was at his suggestion that I was asked to meet with the Chief Planning Officer prior to the to talk about alternative sites .
11 The designer is provided , therefore , with an early indication of the mechanism 's failure to meet with the specified operating conditions .
12 Frankly , neither looked like the kind of man that a woman would want to meet in a dark street … or even darker car park .
13 DARLINGTON teenagers will soon be able to meet in a new club .
14 ROS : A Christian , a Moslem and a Jew chanced to meet in a closed carriage
15 A few weeks ago we were fortunate enough to meet in a public house where I bought you half a dozen pints and we engaged in a long and fascinating conversation .
16 As a result of the appeal , the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup final could not be staged last season , so the trophies and mementoes were presented to Mold Victoria and Ship and Anchor who agreed to meet in a special charity match for the Andrew Wilday Eye Cancer Fund .
17 There are members of the European parliament who s s support Strasbourg as a meeting place clearly , but the majority do not , the majority want to meet in a single city and in so doing the majority have accepted that there should be a new European parliament building in Brussels and that European parliament building now operates .
18 they are likely to meet in the outside world ;
19 There was one girl called Clara whom she used to meet in the lower corridor an hour before classes began : they had long discussions about Tolstoy , Maeterlinck and Ibsen , and were suspected of immorality .
20 For the four clubs Rovers are due to meet in the next stage of the Anglo-Italian Cup are setting the pace in Italy 's Serie B.
21 Mr. Denzil Davies : To ask the Secretary of State for Wales whether he has any plans to meet in the near future the chairman of British Coal to discuss the state of the Welsh coalfield .
22 Matron said she 'd find the others and they arranged to meet in the sick bay .
23 Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market .
24 The aim was to provide a facility for professional women to meet on a regular basis , exchange ideas and experiences and discuss topics of mutual interest .
25 Teacher Researcher groups are expected to meet on a regular basis .
26 The moderation teams continued to meet on a regular basis , to provide feedback and consider further ways of setting and maintaining national standards .
27 In many respects the Glorious Revolution was a significant landmark : it did alter in certain ways the relationship between the Crown and Parliament , it did guarantee the legislative sovereignty of Parliament , it did establish some limited degree of religious toleration for Protestant Dissenters , and the fact that after 1689 Parliament came to meet on a regular basis each year did significantly alter the context in which politics operated .
28 The proclamation will have summoned the Parliament to meet on a specified day and it is up to the victors to turn up on that day at the time prescribed .
29 They arranged to meet at the Blue Boar on the following Wednesday night , then Billy jumped on his bike to ride home .
30 One o'clock was agreed as the deadline when Mrs Wijsmüller and another refugee worker , Gertrud van Tijn , were to meet at the American Hotel to decide on their next move .
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