Example sentences of "[noun sg] met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doric Club met for its ninth annual lunch on Tuesday , 8 September . |
| 2 | Thus alerted , a sub-committee of the North of England Protecting and Indemnity Association met on the following morning and resolved that the danger could only be met by " a central organization of owners for the purpose of protecting their interests against the unreasonable demands and actions of trade unions or combinations affecting such interests " . |
| 3 | In September of 1921 , the International Law Association ( ILA ) , an English based private association met in The Hague , Netherlands and drafted a set of voluntary rules to govern some of the main aspects of ocean carriage liability . |
| 4 | The Dictionary met with immediate acceptance amongst the public , especially the lower classes , for whom it acted , until well into the Victorian age , as an important means of self-education . |
| 5 | An undergraduate met by chance on the campus walkway might be treated to one of his brilliant , spontaneous tutorials , the kind normally only dreamt about , while a group of colleagues over whose meeting he was to preside gazed at an empty chair . |
| 6 | Members of Iraqi opposition groups in exile met in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , at end-February , but made little progress in overcoming their differences regarding the future of Iraq or plans to topple the regime of President Saddam Hussein . |
| 7 | On May 7th farmers , politicians and ex-generals who oppose majority rule met in Pretoria to launch a new alliance calling itself the Afrikaner Volksfront , or Afrikaner People 's Front . |
| 8 | AS Sir Patrick Mayhew and Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring met in Dublin today to discuss the way ahead , following the local election results , there was no clear path for them to follow . |
| 9 | During the 1970s , the critic and novelist Jean Ricardou attempted to foster a greater sense of group identity by bringing together Butor , Pinget , Robbe-Grillet , Sarraute , Simon and Claude Ollier at the famous Cerisy conference ( 1971 ) , in addition to organizing separate colloques devoted to Claude Simon ( 1974 ) and Robbe-Grillet ( 1975 ) ; however , his endeavour to formulate a theoretical programme met with greater resistance . |
| 10 | Members of the board met at the weekend in Berlin to discuss Harvestehudur 's request for a postponement in order to compete in the Glenfiddich . |
| 11 | The Palatine Board met on Wednesday 4 December 1985 . |
| 12 | Yet as the board met on May 27th to discuss a new trading system to replace the ageing SEAQ system , its members were conscious of the exchange 's troubles , not its successes . |
| 13 | Situated in a more middle-class neighbourhood , the branch met in the offices of a local solicitor . |
| 14 | Amongst the younger generation the arrival of the book in the wake of Penguin 's successful defence met with an enthusiasm which rarely survived a thumbing of its pages . |
| 15 | No parliament met between April 1348 and February 1351 , and Geoffrey le Baker noted that the sessions of the king 's bench and common pleas ceased while the plague was at its height . |
| 16 | Parliament met at the nunnery outside the English-occupied town , and on 7 July agreed with the French commander and envoy , the seigneur d'Essé , that ‘ the ancient bond , confederation and amity standing between the realm of France and this country ’ was the best chance against ‘ the mortal wars , cruelties , depredations and intolerable injuries done by our old enemies of England ’ . |
| 17 | Parliament met on January 8th , and that evening MacDonald addressed a great demonstration at the Albert Hall . |
| 18 | The parliament met in Luxembourg to establish a European pressure group for the rights of pensioners and to set a common standard pensioners could use to lobby their own governments . |
| 19 | The North-South Exchanges and Co-operation Subcommittee met on March 18 , and agreed to prepare a supplementary agreement on inter-Korean exchanges and co-operation for signature at the next round of Premiers ' talks in Seoul on May 5 . |
| 20 | The charming profile , full figure portraits were healthily estimated and bidding met with pre-sale expectation . |
| 21 | His son 's request for more money met with scorn ‘ Come home and work with me , lad , do n't mess about with them books , I need you here , ’ his father said . |
| 22 | Last week the directors of two London boroughs facing a huge burden through the loss of funding met with the Health Secretary 's special policy adviser . |
| 23 | To begin with , the local followers of the Methodist creed met in each others homes , then , in the ‘ hungry forties ’ when their members numbered about a score , they undertook the building of a chapel to seat 120 . |
| 24 | This decision met with considerable resistance from our East German colleagues , and in the end , the only way to overcome this was to steer clear so far as was possible of the art historical minefield that exists in Germany . |
| 25 | The system would bring about a close association between the Council itself and the institutions in which academic strength would be recognized and aspirations for academic freedom met in a way different from the traditional one of creating wholly autonomous chartered institutions . |
| 26 | THE Bradford Area Pastoral Council met on October 6th at St Mary 's , Bradford . |
| 27 | The National Administrative Council met on the following weekend to discuss the situation which had arisen . |
| 28 | Neasham Parish council : The parish council met on Monday . |
| 29 | Neasham Parish council : The parish council met on Monday . |
| 30 | When the full County Council met at the end of January the County Manager proposed the Council should commission An Foras Forbartha ( AFF ) to undertake a study of the issue . |