Example sentences of "[adv] met with " in BNC.
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| 1 | An example will serve to illustrate this point : Leigh Hunt was a vegetarian , and praised ‘ in glowing words the cauliflower swimming in melted butter ’ ; Wordsworth wryly asked whether ‘ if by chance of good luck they ever met with a caterpillar , they thanked their stars for a delicious morsel of animal food ’ . |
| 2 | I think you are the boldest man I ever met with , but sir , surely you ought to know that you are not now in the Haymarket . |
| 3 | During these past ten years , he had learned a great deal about his stepfather 's business ; not only did he trudge the streets collecting money , which he then took to the bank after it had been religiously recounted by Luther , but he was the one who made all the entries into the ledgers ; he was the one who always met with accountants and reported back to his stepfather , who constantly grumbled that he was ‘ too ill and racked with pain' to weigh himself down with the burden of meetings and ridiculous men in ridiculous suits , with their ridiculous ideas that a man should always invest the money he earns with the sweat of his brow … |
| 4 | That 's it an approved credit guideline and er that is the problem at the moment that the approved er credit guideline for the non T S G schemes is really insufficient and is having to be propped up er from elsewhere within the budget , your Chairman yesterday met with the er gentleman er the suited gentleman from Bedford and , and er having er given them appropriate cups of coffee er , impressed upon them that the er the one point two was really insufficient for one or two million er , er credit approvals was really insufficient for the needs of Suffolk and er they went away did they not Chairman saying that they er appreciated the point whether you had success or not or perhaps to er wait until December ? |
| 5 | Pearce also met with a considerable degree of resistance from within British Aerospace in his efforts to steer it through privatisation . |
| 6 | The Community Programme also met with some suspicion when it was first introduced by the MSC in the early 1980s but it proved to be a boon for many bureaux to expand their services and broaden their workforce . |
| 7 | If Protestant zealots were only partially successful in their attempt to sweep away the supernatural aura which had surrounded late medieval religion , their efforts to give the common people some grounding in knowledge of the gospels ‘ and a basic understanding of the Reformed theology of grace and salvation also met with only limited success . |
| 8 | Turquoise also met with appreciation in the New World . |
| 9 | On July 20 Kim and Lee also met with Kim Kwan Suk , the leader of the Conference for Promotion of Opposition Unity , thereby fuelling speculation regarding an imminent political realignment in the form of a new unified party of opposition . |
| 10 | Roh also met with the rest of the North Korean delegation and reiterated Kang 's call for confidence-building measures as a prelude to improved bilateral relations . |
| 11 | The first draft also met with opposition at an EC Foreign Ministers ' meeting on June 17 when the United Kingdom , supported by Denmark and Portugal , called for the removal of a phrase in the preamble describing the treaty as " a new stage in the gradual process leading to a union with a federal goal " . |
| 12 | He also met with DP leaders . |
| 13 | Nien held talks with his Chinese counterpart , Xu Dunxin , but also met with Foreign Minister Qian Qichen , Premier Li Peng and Chinese Communist Party general secretary Jiang Zemin . |
| 14 | On both his visits to Jerusalem and on the first visit to Amman Baker also met with Palestinian representatives , and he held talks with the main Palestinian pre-conference negotiators , Hanan Ashrawi , Faisal al-Husseini , Zakaria al-Agha and Sari Nusseibah , in Washington on Oct. 10-11 . |
| 15 | He and his Thai counterpart Anand Panyarachun signed on Feb. 19 a friendship and co-operation treaty ; Khamtay also met with King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and an agreement was concluded under which Thailand would help to develop tourism in Laos . |
| 16 | Sturt 's Murray Scrubs expedition , restricted though it was in scale and ambition in comparison with the great adventure six years later , also met with limited success . |
| 17 | Crawford 's performance also met with a mixed reception . |
| 18 | James also met with opposition from Tory magistrates . |
| 19 | During the mid and late 1980s he frequently met with fellow activists in the rest of Eastern Europe and the USSR . |
| 20 | The year 's first serious labour dispute began with a three-day unofficial strike at the giant Hyundai shipyard in the southern city of Ulsan which immediately met with a harsh response from the government . |
| 21 | This power given to individuals by the Spirit is not the naked ruach that we sometimes met with in the Old Testament days in men like Saul and Samson . |
| 22 | It was some days before he resolved on this , but he then met with strong opposition from both Joffre and Foch , who wanted him first to penetrate the centre ridge between Pozières and Thiepval . |
| 23 | Mercifully , ideas of this kind never met with much support , and finally , in 1932 , the controlling body of world astronomy , the International Astronomical Union , lost patience . |
| 24 | I never met with the fellow of her in my life . |
| 25 | But I think it may be more appropriate if I actually met with say the management committee as opposed to myself yes I 'm quite happy to do that to meet any individual or group who feel they have some concerns they wish to discuss and I give that I give that assurance this evening . |