Example sentences of "[is] met [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime minister is met at the door of the Palace at 6.30 on Tuesday evenings by the Queen 's private secretary , and ushered into the royal drawing room by a footman . |
| 2 | If the condition for oscillation is met at only one frequency then essentially sinusoidal oscillation will occur at that frequency . |
| 3 | • A Meeting Service Manager who works with you from your first call , ensuring every requirement is met to your specification . |
| 4 | The French messenger Mountjoy , bringing an insult from the Dauphin , is met with a fierce defiance that leaves him , in this version , visibly shocked . |
| 5 | She has lately developed a tiresome habit of becoming a mere compendium of Paxford 's views ; every conceivable topic is met with a reply beginning ‘ Paxford says ’ . |
| 6 | Their lack of faith is met with Moses ' anger and then with God 's exasperation , but nothing more . |
| 7 | COMMONSENSE is met with parrot-speak : ‘ Other European countries … |
| 8 | She is in the process of doing this with her fellow patients , when her gaze is met with hostility by a fat , pimpled , nineteen- or twenty-year-old girl . |
| 9 | The incident triggers a publicity bombshell and the government despatches a senior policeman , Peter Kerrigan ( Brian Cox ) , to head an investigation but his arrival in the Province is met with obstruction and hostility by the security forces . |
| 10 | Powering up , the user is met with the sound of the on-board fan rising to speed . |
| 11 | Apart from the need to reduce delays in the investigation of complaints there is no more important issue than the need to ensure that serious misconduct is met with suitable sanctions , and that the costs of disciplinary proceedings should , so far as is practicable and just , be borne by those who cause us to incur those costs . |
| 12 | The unleaded double-case double lid is met with in parochial , rather than private , vaults and both intramural and churchyard brick-lined graves . |
| 13 | The unsuccessful hunter is met with marked coldness by the women , while the successful hunter flings down his kill for the women to prepare , and with studied indifference goes to lie down . |
| 14 | The ( very ) old ‘ American bands get treated like gods in the UK while homegrown talent is treated like a joke ’ argument is met with a smile and a calm , ‘ Yeah , but we get the advantage when we go to America , ’ from Hugo . |
| 15 | But while much of Africa is clamouring for multi-party elections in the hope of replacing indifferent or corrupt governments , the prospect of political freedom is met with apprehension in Uganda . |
| 16 | If the deviant reneges again in the punishment phase , this is met with a reimposition of the punishment phase from its beginning , thus postponing the date of reversion to the more profitable collusive phase . |
| 17 | There are cases where , from an economic point of view , the marriage valuables represent the purchase of a husband by the bride rather than vice versa , and the general European pattern , which is met with in many other parts of the world , is for the principal payment to be the bride 's " dowry " , a set of assets which she brings with her into the marriage as a part of her inheritance from her own kin . |
| 18 | He is met with the hissing of his followers now instead of the huge applause he expected . |
| 19 | Whereas in ( 1 ) B's talk is received seriously — without laughter , in fact with silence followed by supportive agreements — in ( 2 ) , V 's talk is met with laughter and is clearly perceived as joking . |
| 20 | The third criterion ( accurate/up-to-date ) is met with variable success . |
| 21 | ‘ Any suggestion that your wife expects you home for the evening meal at a reasonable hour ’ is met with ‘ howls of derision ’ from older colleagues . |
| 22 | all the consultation that also talks about in this paper is met with the two centres , the management committee of Highfields youth and commune centre and also the users of the Moat Centre and I think in light of everything that 's gone on I think it 's substantially a success to stand here and say that we have at least achieved some result and I I formally would welcome the Libs supporting this this afternoon and I 'm grateful for the turn that the Libs have made and in light of er what er Mr the involvement Mr has put in . |
| 23 | A considerable part of the total range of need is met through the basic social services of income maintenance , health , housing and personal social services . |
| 24 | At the other end of the scale the ‘ When in Rome do as the Romans ’ is no excuse for dropping to the level of a curse between every other word that is met in some otherwise honest circles . |
| 25 | The arrival of the flight from Dire Dawa , where the khat is grown , is met by crowds desperate for the leaves . |
| 26 | This excuse is met by a low moan crawling through the carriages . |
| 27 | When this offering is met by faith , a life-giving encounter results . |
| 28 | Nuclear power will help to save oil — the most vital of the USSR 's energy resources , yet a great deal more will need to be done to change Soviet energy structures if domestic oil supplies and supplies to other Communist countries are not to come under extreme pressure in the late 1980s and 1990s. there will still have to be a reduction in supplies to the Communist bloc and a considerable reduction in the proportion of Soviet energy demand which is met by oil . |
| 29 | For this season , the short ‘ Dance House ’ films and the one-off Cross Channel ( featuring the all-female Cholmondeleys and the all-male Featherstonehaughs ) are costing him £200,000 an hour — half of which is met by co-production money . |
| 30 | My claim is met by her unblinking glare , |