Example sentences of "[verb] a meeting " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas ‘ the true self , in sex , would seek a meeting , would seek to meet the other ’ , this being the ‘ true flow ’ , sexuality today is merely greedy , blind , selfseeking , and ‘ therefore , since the thing sought is the same , the self , the mode of seeking is not very important . |
| 2 | He said he would seek a meeting with senior planning officers to establish if anything more is known about the company behind the proposal . |
| 3 | Its members , led by a former Scottish Office minister , Sir Russell Fairgrieve , will seek a meeting with Mr Lang to urge him to exercise his influence in the Cabinet and the Council of Ministers for Scottish MEPs to be elected by PR , which could dramatically affect Labour 's dominant position in seven out of the eight European seats . |
| 4 | The trees stood at intervals down the Main Street and provided a meeting place for the villagers and presumably a resting place whilst they journeyed to Lowry Field at the bottom of the village , which had the communal St Laurence Well and provided water when all the house and farm wells were dry . |
| 5 | They provided a meeting point for people who were increasingly diversified in language , manners , status and even political allegiance . |
| 6 | It was a large open space surrounded by buildings and provided a meeting place and a centre for commerce and public life . |
| 7 | There has been no chromosome work in Shetland ( nor investigations of the " teeth " ) , but the shell-shape data strongly suggest a meeting of two factions-in some places the enclaves show the full " normal " range of variation : in others , only a few miles away , they do not . |
| 8 | Next time we will have a basis on which to request a meeting , in advance — trying to arrange meetings on the spot becomes a nightmare of negotiating other prescheduled appointments . |
| 9 | She is to request a meeting with the education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , to discuss the issue . |
| 10 | You know the situations where you 're in a I do n't know a meeting in some presentation and somebody wants you to give a vote of thanks have you ever had that , I had that Birmingham University one time . |
| 11 | Like the liturgy , they provide a meeting point for the two and enter deeply into the means by which a visionary like Julian of Norwich conveys to others her apprehension of God alive and working in the being of man . |
| 12 | On Feb. 2 , National Guardsmen forcibly dispersed a meeting , killing two people and injuring several others . |
| 13 | Mr Baker proposed a meeting with Israel 's Foreign Minister , Moshe Arens , and his Egyptian counterpart , Esmat Abdel-Maguid , after Israeli leaders last Friday rejected Egypt 's invitation to meet a Palestinian delegation in Cairo . |
| 14 | Finally , Britain proposed a meeting of Commonwealth representatives in London , which Canada agreed to attend , in October 1943 . |
| 15 | After one of early games he was approached by a strange looking character who proposed a meeting ‘ which would be to your advantage , senor ’ . |
| 16 | In May 1953 he proposed a meeting of East-West leaders and in 1954 wanted to hold a personal meeting with Malenkov . |
| 17 | According to All-India Radio , Bhattarai proposed a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister , V. P. Singh , in order to resolve the problems between the two countries . |
| 18 | Pérez also proposed a meeting of oil producing and consuming countries in order to stabilize world oil prices and to ward off a possible domestic fiscal crisis . |
| 19 | Leading on from that , we fixed a meeting for this year aimed at getting to know each other better and looking at how to prepare together the ecumenical service . |
| 20 | So colleagues were intrigued when posters appeared near the Guardian office recently , announcing a meeting to celebrate Uncle Joe 's 110th birthday in a hall close to King 's Cross station . |
| 21 | They want a meeting , they intimate , and are boarding for that purpose now . |
| 22 | ‘ I want a meeting . ’ |
| 23 | I want a meeting with you . |
| 24 | The 34-year-old left-hander , 10 times the England champion , wants a meeting between players and officials at the end of the season . |
| 25 | Manager Crosby wants a meeting with chairman Bob Murray this weekend after blowing his top over claims that Crystal Palace boss Steve Coppell had been approached about his job . |
| 26 | There are two grounds for challenging a meeting 's decision : first , if the arrangement unfairly prejudices the interest of a particular creditor ; second , if there was some procedural irregularity . |
| 27 | And an action group set up to fight the route looks set to demand a meeting with Mr Hunt 's successor , John Redwood . |
| 28 | The archbishop of Trier convoked a meeting at Andernach , under the presidency of Archbishop Adolf of Cologne , to elect a new king . |
| 29 | I 'd cancelled a meeting . ’ |
| 30 | Samuel Hoare , the Foreign Secretary , used a meeting of the League Assembly in Geneva to declare British readiness to participate fully in ‘ collective resistance to all acts of unprovoked aggression ’ . |