Example sentences of "[adv] met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Ieuan Wyn Jones : If any new hospitals are built in Wales , such as the East Glamorgan hospital , will the funding for those hospitals , in terms of capital costs , be entirely met by the Welsh Office or , as a result of last week 's disclosure in Construction News , are we to take it that Treasury guidelines to introduce private sector money into such building will mean that the commitment from the Welsh Office will be less ? |
| 2 | Where they 'd all met with their initiation into his flamboyant world of sex . |
| 3 | For these reasons I have considered anxiously whether , if the law should be held not to provide to a local government authority the right to sue for libel , the need for adequate protection of the reputation of such an authority would be sufficiently met by other remedies . |
| 4 | The National Council annually met in a variety of cities in March , so as not to clash with the customary ‘ May Meetings ’ of the various denominations . |
| 5 | First , workers as the majority group in the electorate might rationally choose to maintain capitalism , not because they are duped by the dominant ideology but because their individual interests are better met under redistributive capitalism than through a painful transition to socialism , which could only conceivably deliver net benefits in the very long run . |
| 6 | On the basis of this kind of evidence and interpretation , which recognizes the essentially social nature of teachers ' developing curricular identities , commitments and pedagogical preferences , the improvement of teaching quality would seem better met by training and deployment policies which are less rather than more specialized in nature . |
| 7 | Clearly , some of the needs now met by social services departments would be better met by the old people themselves if they had the financial means to preserve their own independence . |
| 8 | The needs of applicants who are contemplating legal practice in England and Wales will generally be better met by studying in a university or college south of the border . |
| 9 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 10 | He was with a group of friends whom he had apparently met in the gallery , and they were all standing around him admiringly , talking and laughing in that exaggeratedly animated way only Americans have , reacting and demanding reactions . |
| 11 | He also tried to get computing work but was only met with excuses . |
| 12 | The loose grouping , which has only met on two occasions , is known unofficially as HOG , the Hilton Object Group , after its inaugural meeting at the Boston Hilton last year . |
| 13 | Fortunately the two groups only met at one session . |
| 14 | Young people 's needs for information , understanding , and entertainment are not only met by books but also by television programmes , by cinema films , and by recorded sound . |
| 15 | It was as if two distant times had suddenly met in a single second and two different women in a single gesture . |
| 16 | The crisis , which mostly concerned urban strays , was successfully met with poison baiting , but this was not without environmental cost . |
| 17 | Such chivalry is rarely met with by such as I , and although I know I should refuse it , for it will put you in debt , I confess I can not . ’ |
| 18 | Yet each in his own way sincerely struggled to impose order on a country where Lowlander and Highlander rarely met in friendship , and could rarely communicate in the same tongue ; where there was the continual threat of another English excuse for invasion , often abetted by self-seeking elements within the kingdom itself ; and where arrogant noblemen prolonged family feuds disruptive not merely to the families conceded but to the governance of the kingdom itself . |
| 19 | Unfortunately EDSI drives have the same cable configuration as ST506 but the drives are much faster and much larger in capacity , and are therefore rarely met in stand alone systems . |
| 20 | It is important to ensure that legitimate public interest in environmental issues is properly met by access to reliable information and advice . |
| 21 | While this reform is specifically designed to prevent many of today 's disgruntled education consumers joining the ranks of tomorrow 's underclass , it will of course have implications for a much wider group of young people , whose talents and needs have been all too little met by the emphasis on the reorganization of secondary education to the exclusion of all other considerations . |
| 22 | Bride and groom presumably met in the Post Office during the war . |
| 23 | The moderate socialists still controlled the CEC elected by the first All-Russian Congress of Soviets in June , but acceded to demands that they summon a Second Congress which , following a series of regional soviet congresses , eventually met on 25 October . |
| 24 | The USAF 's speed and altitude requirements were eventually met by the Los Angeles Division of North American Aviation ( NAA ) — but not without first overcoming tremendous technical , design and manufacturing problems . |
| 25 | PLCND , chaired by Bob Cryer , Labour candidate for Bradford South and vice-chairman of Labour 's backbench defence committee , has not met since last year . |
| 26 | As David Griffiths ( 1970 ) points out , these two élite factions had not met since the notorious Bonnington Conference in 1948 when war between two views of drama educators was openly declared . |
| 27 | But that Parliament has not met since 1706 and is extremely unlikely ever to meet again . |
| 28 | In 1763 the Cours des Aides , one of the chief legal and financial institutions of the monarchy , asked for the convocation of the States-General ( a national representative body , organized by social orders , which had originated in the later Middle Ages and had not met since 1614 ) . |
| 29 | A study commissioned by the CPRE called Superb Conversions ? concluded that the five arguments used to justify the conversion of a farm building are often not met on completion of the renovation . |
| 30 | Since Freemantle had to walk within a few yards of Leapor 's door whenever she approached Brackley from Hinton , it is perhaps odd that they had not met at least in passing . |