Example sentences of "[noun] call an " in BNC.
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| 1 | By fitting a unique valve called an ECO Lock into the sump , we can prevent undissolved detergent being pumped out of the wastepipe . |
| 2 | Venture capitalists will normally expect , and get , at least one seat on the board , operating what Mr Hawkins calls an ‘ eyes-on , rather than hands-on ’ approach to management . |
| 3 | He or she will look into them with an instrument called an ophthalmoscope to check that the eyes are healthy and there 's no sign of cataracts ( where the lens of the eye is opaque instead of transparent ) . |
| 4 | On each release ( issue ) of the product to a specific client , a further reference called an Issue Identifier is created , which delineates the unique relationship between the product and the client . |
| 5 | Mr Reynolds called an election for November 25 last night , after losing a confidence vote in the Dail , the Dublin parliament . |
| 6 | In the event that there are circumstances that members or creditors of the company should know about , the auditor has the power to require the directors to call an extraordinary general meeting to discuss the resignation circumstances . |
| 7 | Your father had a telephone call an hour ago from Judd 's commanding officer . |
| 8 | There 's a fish called an X-ray fish . |
| 9 | Use a special lifting device called an ambulift or correct lifting procedures but be especially careful of slipping . |
| 10 | In most neurons impulses are received by numerous short fibres called dendrites and carried away from the cell by a single long fibre called an axon . |
| 11 | If historical time is the existence of the social totality then the relation between the two must be one of immediacy , allowing what Althusser calls an ‘ essential section ’ , that is ‘ a break in the present such that all the elements of the whole revealed by this section are in an immediate relationship with one another , a relationship that immediately expresses their internal essence ’ . |
| 12 | According to this definition , literalization is a metaphoric mapping of what Barthes calls an ‘ acratic ’ or specialized discourse onto an ‘ encratic ’ or universal one . |
| 13 | The plaintiff called an expert estate agent who gave evidence that it was a matter of considerable significance to both vendors if there was one purchaser interested in acquiring both properties . |
| 14 | In Quebec itself , the Liberal Party administration of Robert Bourassa on June 21 approved a bill which gave the province 's government the right to call an independence referendum if an acceptable constitutional reform offer was not devised by October 1992 . |
| 15 | the charge to call an O eight nine eight number from any phone other than a pay phone is thirty six pence per minute at cheap rate and forty eight per minute at all other times , over half of this money is paid by B T to the business providing the informational service |
| 16 | Fatialofa is L'Aquila 's ‘ foreign player ’ but on the other side of the scrum there is a South African of Italian descent , Gerardo Lepera , who does not count as a foreign player and has the right to play as what the Italians call an oriundi . |
| 17 | On 10 March 1988 , the TBL board called an egm of shareholders for 30 March to consider increasing its share capital , which it had power to do under its articles of association . |
| 18 | In the forties the quarry owners got emergency planning permission called an Interim Development Order or IDO . |
| 19 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 20 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 21 | In the past BP Oil had what top managers called an ‘ investment culture ’ . |
| 22 | The adoption of this approach within certain subjects is based on what Ball calls an academic perspective , where teachers tend to be strongly subject-centred , to view their own subject as setting special intellectual demands because of its allegedly ‘ linear ’ quality , to favour homogeneous ability grouping , and to prefer whole-class teaching methods . |
| 23 | It was the Congregationalists who suffered most from what R. F. Horton called an ‘ exaggerated and perverted notion of independency ’ , partially because of their history and partially because there was a greater diversity of beliefs than in the other denominations being discussed . |
| 24 | He was what Anna called an impertinent young man . |
| 25 | A unique new ending to the original ‘ Blizzard ’ commercial includes an invitation for viewers to call an freephone line for a free product sample . |
| 26 | The road at that point was half-a-mile inland from the cliffs and Jordan 's place lay between it and the sea on what the geologists call an elevated plain of marine denudation . |
| 27 | Neither Paul nor Christie called an ambulance , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 28 | Neighbours called an ambulance immediately when Joan Whalen , 63 , was discovered on the concrete steps in her back yard in Weardale Drive . |
| 29 | A canister is recovered from the craft , the contents of which solidify into an at first small creature called an Ymir . |
| 30 | An age of consumerism , and of powerful manipulation by mass media , creates the need for what Nathalie Sarraute calls an ‘ Age of Suspicion ’ ; for scepticism about the means and motives by which the world is constructed and communicated . |