Example sentences of "[vb base] met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The guidelines envisage that over the period to 2011 the proportion of aggregates supply met from primary land-based sources in the region will decline from 85% to just over 20% . |
| 2 | The guidelines envisage that over the 20 year period to 2011 the proportion of aggregates supply met from primary land-based sources in the region will decline from 65% to around 45% , despite a net increase in output . |
| 3 | And she was supposed to be a witch right enough and the men from all round about here er had a meeting about it and they I think met at the barn of Dale . |
| 4 | Third ( to Piers ) , I think you 're the smuggest young layabout I 've met for years and you ( me ) are these your friends ? |
| 5 | What would be the first thing , people tend to do when they 've met for the very first time ? |
| 6 | He 's the nicest man I 've met for a long time . |
| 7 | About 30 per cent of the women I 've met through our training courses are certainly in this position . |
| 8 | We often get to bed very , very late at night because we 've met with the host record company of whatever country we are in . |
| 9 | Erm , we set up an investment panel of the erm , the executive committee to specifically to look in detail at our investment policy , in the light of resolution four at the nineteen eighty-seven A G M. We 've met with our investment advisors on several occasions , and we have considered our in , investment policy in some detail . |
| 10 | cos I 've met I 've met with them before |
| 11 | I ca n't say we really got to talk properly until we played tennis together at Kyalami in 1976 , just before he took up his Lotus drive , but it was evident from the first that he was of sound mind and body and somehow radically different from any other driver I 've met before or since , and if I were pressed to say why that is so , it has to be because of his utter imperturbability . |
| 12 | It 's very reassuring because it could be quite daunting but all these are friends I 've met before and so it 's lovely to see them here supporting me |
| 13 | You 're only the second Scot I 've met in ten months . ’ |
| 14 | You ca n't write names , or mention people you 've met in prison — you can write about your friends , but not any names . |
| 15 | The creature looked wilder and woollier than any I 've met in seas round about , its suckered and flock-piled textures giving more chew and less taste than one would have expected . |
| 16 | ‘ I think your family and your friends are the most charming people I 've met in ages ! |
| 17 | ‘ He 's the most charming man I 've met in a long time . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You are the most frustrating piece of womanhood I 've met in a long time , ’ he rasped . |
| 19 | erm unfortunately , it might sound extremely erm severe , but I can think of a number of people I 've met in my experience as a pastor who really and frankly could not help themselves and need to be treated almost like children again and made to receive help , and there are quite number of those sort of characters , unfortunately , on the streets of Oxford . |
| 20 | Since then , Cabinets have met without the monarch . |
| 21 | Its the first time the two men have met for a week and the outcome is that |
| 22 | Dozens of children who survived a rare blood disorder have met for the first time at a special party . |
| 23 | Not only does Italy-Brazil represent many people 's ideal coupling for next summer 's World Cup final in Rome but this afternoon 's game also marks the first occasion the two countries have met since that afternoon seven years ago in Spain when the Italians dismissed Falcao , Zico , Junior et al , 3-2 on their way to winning the 1982 World Cup . |
| 24 | Republican conspirators had found little support ; Picornell , whom we have met as a republican conspirator in Spain , failed to engineer a rebellion , while Miranda 's expedition of 1806 was a fiasco . |
| 25 | The Commission 's proposals have met with virtually unanimous opposition from the 12 member countries , and the commissioner in charge , Christiane Scrivener , has the unenviable task of persuading them to change their minds . |
| 26 | In some cases , we have met with open hostility , particularly from some parents , and we need to do more to dispel this . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ We have met with a wall of silence over this business . |
| 28 | Their hare-brained scheme to join two perfect strangers in an Italian retreat for a month would , in real 1920s life , have met with incredulity . |
| 29 | In 1738 Bartram journeyed to Williamsburg in Virginia with a letter of introduction from Collinson to John Custis : ‘ In the vegetable kingdom perhaps you will find him more knowing in that science than any you have met with . |
| 30 | For this reason , arguments for the existence of the monster based upon visual evidence have met with a good deal of scepticism . |