Example sentences of "a meeting [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charges against him were dropped in May 1988 after a meeting between the Crown Prosecution Service and the force complaints department , because his alleged confession had been given to an officer , Det Sgt James McManus , who was already under investigation in another case . |
| 2 | At a meeting between the Hungarian and Romanian leaders in August 1988 , ostensibly called to ease tension between the two countries , Ceausescu is reputed to have threated Karoly Grosz with the words : ‘ We do not , and do not wish , to manufacture nuclear weapons ; however , we do possess the capability to do so . ’ |
| 3 | THE Japanese government is expected to introduce further measures to prop up Tokyo 's fragile stock market next week , following a meeting between the ‘ big four ’ stockbroking companies and the Ministry of Finance yesterday . |
| 4 | The Inland Revenue 's policy on the allocation of overpayments of tax against underpayments , and the interest consequences thereof , have been published in an appendix to the notes of a meeting between the Revenue and the Institute 's Tax Faculty ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 90 ) . |
| 5 | As he left the talks Mr MacSharry said : ‘ We have had a meeting between the four commissioners and I will be taking part in the negotiations . ’ |
| 6 | A typical occasion was when Thornton used his contacts to set up a meeting between the paper and the trade-union-sponsored Unity Bank to borrow £10,000 to keep things going for now , and to test the water for the millions of pounds that would be needed in the future . |
| 7 | The issue became hot enough in New Zealand to lead to a meeting between the Prime Minister Mr Bolger and the NZRFU Chairman Eddie Tonks . |
| 8 | The meeting was attended by delegates from Belgium , France , Holland , Italy , Sweden and the United Kingdom , and followed a meeting between the Group 's acting chairman , David Morgan , and its Belgian Field Officer , Rik de Gruyter , with the relevant officer at the European Commission 's DG IIXXX , the Directorate Generale responsible for tourism . |
| 9 | Elaborate preparations had been made for a meeting between the two kings at Gloucester : King Malcolm was there at the appointed time , but Rufus refused to see him , and the two parted , in the Chronicler 's words ‘ in great enmity ’ . |
| 10 | Adela fixed up a meeting between the king and archbishop , and in a few days everything was arranged . |
| 11 | A meeting between the union and Bull is set for Tuesday , and the two are to meet the judge again on March 18 . |
| 12 | The process begins with a meeting between the idea originator and a facilitator . |
| 13 | I am told that there is to be a meeting between the Secretary of State for Scotland and the Transport and General Workers union as soon as it is practicable . |
| 14 | Eventually the old quarrel was renewed between St Magnus and Hakon , which was to have been settled by a meeting between the two parties on Egilsay . |
| 15 | It is initiated during a meeting between the ‘ consultant ’ and the minister at a five-star hotel . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 17 | At a meeting between the United Kingdom Prime Minister , Margaret Thatcher , and the US President , George Bush , on Nov. 24 at Camp David ( USA ) , both leaders agreed that the most effective way to establish stable democracies in Eastern Europe was to maintain the European continent 's present division of two military alliances , together with a strong US military presence . |
| 18 | Negotiations to reduce the fee for the prospective French cosmonaut ( estimated at $10,000,000 for one week in orbit ) were continuing during a meeting between the two country 's space agencies in November . |
| 19 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |
| 20 | The statement which was issued shortly after a meeting between the UK Foreign Secretary , Douglas Hurd and the Iranian Foreign Minister , Ali Akbar Vellayati in New York , came after months of intense negotiations between officials of the two countries . |
| 21 | They also called for wider consultations , and a meeting between the US Department of the Interior and the Belau Olbil era Kelulau ( OEK — National Congress , consisting of the House of Representatives and the Senate ) to discuss the document was scheduled for September 1990 . |
| 22 | the Guardian of March 1 reported that at a meeting between the government and members of the opposition in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , angry debate had erupted over demands by the opposition that martial law be declared not by the government in exile , but by an emergency national unity government reflecting various political views . |
| 23 | The restoration of relations with Senegal was agreed on in principle at a meeting between the Foreign Ministers of the two countries in Bissau ( Guinea-Bissau ) on July 18 . |
| 24 | A meeting between the new Soviet Foreign Affairs Minister , Boris Pankin , and the Foreign Ministers of 11 republics ( all except Georgia of the remaining 12 , following the independence of the Baltic states ) had also agreed to seek UN membership for each republic , while still preserving the status of the Soviet Union on the Security Council . |
| 25 | A meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Russia , Moldova , Ukraine and Romania which took place on April 6 in the Moldovan capital , Kishinev , brokered a ceasefire effective from April 7 and made recommendations over its implementation . |
| 26 | While support for the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl had been further undermined during the period of the strike , a meeting between the three ruling coalition parties and the opposition Social Democrats ( SPD ) on May 27 failed to resolve differences , and both the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) and SPD rejected any idea of a " grand coalition " as suggested by the media . |
| 27 | The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office on July 3 said that further information would be requested from the Libyan government , following a meeting between the Libyan ambassador to Tunisia , Abd al-Atti Obeidi , and other Libyan officials and United Kingdom representatives at the Geneva headquarters of the UN on June 9 . |
| 28 | A meeting between the CNAA and the DES had taken place in June 1965 , and there were further meetings . |
| 29 | This is because the assumption is that the significance of the icon is based upon the faith of the believer and so the possibility of a meeting between the believer and that Reality is discounted from the start . |
| 30 | A meeting between the Communists , the ILP and the NUWM on 23 September 1931 , was criticized as abandoning the " United Front from Below " for top-level negotiations . |