Example sentences of "[noun] met on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The P A G resources , P A G met on Friday , and they found even further savings in the request to keep . |
| 2 | Before leaving Moscow for Lithuania Gorbachev met on Jan. 4 and 6 with the leaderships of both the CPL and the rival " Lithuanian Communist Party on the CPSU platform " ( created in December by a breakaway faction supporting unity with the CPSU — ibid . ) . |
| 3 | Russell and Ellen met on Guy Fawkes night many moons ago . |
| 4 | Brady met on Jan. 21 with the German Finance Minister Theo Waigel ( who declined afterwards to state a figure for the German contribution ) and with the Japanese Finance Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto ( who had already stated on Jan. 18 that Japan would contribute a " substantial sum " to be decided " as soon as possible " ) . |
| 5 | Representatives of the Serbian Republic of Bosnia-Hercegovina and of the self-proclaimed Serbian Republic of Krajina ( RSK ) in Croatia met on Nov. 1 in the north Bosnian town of Prijedor to unite their territories politically , establishing a joint army , legal system and citizenship as the first step towards the unification of the whole Serbian nation [ see p. 39103 ] . |
| 6 | The Presidents of Burundi , Rwanda and Zaïre met on Jan. 4 in Mbandaka , north-western Zaïre , to discuss the problems of border controls and refugees , following the December flight of Hutu refugees from Burundi into Rwanda and Zaïre . |
| 7 | The central committee of the Croatian LC met on Nov. 22 , 1989 , to discuss the LCY programme document [ see above ] . |
| 8 | Japanese plans to seize Midway Island , an important US base in the north of the Hawaiian Islands , were thwarted when the fleets met on 3 June 1942 , and American dive bombers sank all four Japanese carriers . |
| 9 | On March 28 , 1989 , Pérez and President Virgilio Barco Vargas of Colombia met on the Urena border bridge and agreed to set up a permanent commission , chaired by former Spanish Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez González , to look into their marine border dispute , which last erupted in August 1987 when a Colombian warship sailed into the Gulf of Venezuela ( known by Colombia as the Gulf of Guajira--see p. 35757 ) . |
| 10 | The Economy Ministers of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay met on July 20 in the Uruguayan capital , Montevideo , and agreed to work out a joint set of rules to combat the dumping and sale of subsidised goods by non-members of their prospective common market agreed under the Mercosur Treaty of March 1991 [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 11 | A further step towards closer ties with the British came in August 1941 , when Churchill and Roosevelt met on the battleship Prince of Wales in Placentia Bay , Newfoundland . |
| 12 | About two weeks later , Kilpatrick and Dunlop met on market day in the Tam O'Shanter Inn , Ayr to finalise their transaction . |
| 13 | When the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Indochina met on 23 November 1946 and heard d'Argenlieu 's report it resulted in what Devillers affirms was obviously the government 's decision to face up to every infringement of the Franco — Vietminh agreement , if necessary by force . |
| 14 | Without the right to asylum , Germany thus becomes much like the other members of the European Community , whose ministers met on June 1st to try to devise a common system for dealing with refugees . |
| 15 | His unexpected decision made SLFP leader Sirimavo Bandaranaike conclude , when the House met on Oct. 9 , that there was no point in pursuing the motion of no confidence which she had tabled against Premadasa himself . |
| 16 | On 23 October 1940 , with France effectively under German control and Mussolini 's troops about to invade Greece , Franco and Hitler met on the Hispano-French border , at the railway station in Hendaye . |