Example sentences of "met [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | French Prime Minister Michel Rocard conceded that the initiative had " not met with the least response from the Iraqi side " . |
| 2 | Nivelle 's campaign in Champagne opened on 19 April and met with the same fate as most earlier attacks : some 120,000 Frenchmen fell before the German machine-guns and by the day 's end an advance of only 550m/600yds had been made , in tragic contrast to Nivelle 's expected g.6km/6mls . |
| 3 | She halfexpected to find Griselda 's body , guessing that it might have met with the same fate as Melusina . |
| 4 | If this was the case , then there must be enough grounds for proper charges , said Mr Bruce , but every enquiry he made , to police , social work , or the Children 's Panel Reporter , Gordon Sloan , was met with the same answer : ‘ Investigations are continuing . ’ |
| 5 | Not only is this shock experienced in fieldwork , while one learns the ways of a new culture , but it is experienced even more disconcertingly when one returns to one 's own culture … two different worlds have met in the same person . |