Example sentences of "[vb -s] call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 2 | He has called a seminar in nine days to discuss ‘ The Urge For Self Destruction ’ . |
| 3 | Boycott has called a meeting of his own Wakefield members for next Tuesday and seems set on leading a campaign to unseat the majority of the committee , something he managed once before , in January 1984 . |
| 4 | THE Official Receiver of UK Land 's £60 million Northampton Business Park has called a creditors ' meeting . |
| 5 | With the election out of the way , the Commission has called a halt to the period in which British questions were either postponed or handled with kid gloves . |
| 6 | ‘ The Council of Guardians , ’ Benstede replied wearily , ‘ has called a meeting of the Great Council . |
| 7 | Planting must be generous and carefully placed so that the alternate blocks of cars do not dominate the view down the axis of the street and create what Bowers has called a ‘ sea of metal ’ . |
| 8 | Michael Schenker has called a final halt to MSG after a twelve-year run . |
| 9 | The Hindu BJP party has called a general strike today to protest against the arrest of two of its leaders , accused of inciting Hindus to tear down the mosque . |
| 10 | Barnet Supporters ' Association secretary Liz Ashfield has called a special meeting tomorrow , ( thurs ) , which Flashman has been invited to attend . |
| 11 | He has called a summit on Thursday for the 14 clubs who opposed Arsenal , Liverpool , Manchester United , Everton , Leeds , Aston Villa , Nottingham Forest and Queens Park Rangers . |
| 12 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |
| 13 | There has been hastening of change , a move towards what Kenneth Baker , the Conservative Secretary of State for Education , has called a series of ‘ benchmarks ’ appropriate to all schools . |
| 14 | Japan 's government is deeply opposed to what America 's trade representative , Mickey Kantor , has called a new policy geared to ‘ quantifiable results ’ for some products . |
| 15 | The imposed status system in conjunction with the emphasis on loyalty and obedience , whether to ruler , master , household head or parent , produced what the anthropologist Nakane Chie has called a ‘ vertical ’ society . |
| 16 | Specifically , the history of English since about 1550 is often presented as what Lass ( 1976 : xi ) has called a ‘ single-minded march ’ towards RP and modern standard English , with divergent developments either excluded or admitted only in so far as they throw light on ‘ standard ’ English . |
| 17 | The development of a small number of powerful states was also intimately linked with the growth of a large-scale economic division of labour , and the emergence of what Wallerstein ( 1974 ) has called a ‘ European world-economy ’ . |
| 18 | Now the boss of the provisionals ' counter intelligence department nicknamed ‘ the headhunters ’ has called a temporary halt to operations in North Belfast until the leak can be stemmed . |
| 19 | Mrs McGonagle has called a public meeting in the town 's Melmount Centre for Wednesday , June 2 , at 8pm . |
| 20 | Hickel a strong supporter of the cull , has called a three-day wolf summit to discuss the issue and will make a final decision after the meeting . |
| 21 | Mandy , Mrs Foster has called a staff meeting . |
| 22 | O'Brien has called a meeting of all last season 's Ellesmere Port players for a week on Thursday ( June 24 ) . |
| 23 | The health authority has called a meeting with the local councils and Chester and Ellesmere Port Community Health Council . |
| 24 | Durham Indoor Bowls Club has called a public meeting at the Abbey Sports Centre , Pity Me , Durham , at 4.30pm on Saturday . |
| 25 | The local Nalgo branch has called a general meeting for tomorrow when members will be balloted on whether to withdraw their labour . |
| 26 | Incidentally , McMillan has called a meeting of all curlers at Perth on 27 February , when a players ' group or association will come a step nearer reality . |
| 27 | The bank has called a London meeting of leading share registrars and custodians for next Tuesday to discuss the fall-out from Thursday 's decision by the Stock Exchange council to scrap the £400 million Taurus project . |
| 28 | The manoeuvring goes on : Boris Yeltsin appears to have backtracked slightly on the powers he has assumed to by-pass the Supreme Soviet , although he still intends to hold the planned referendum ; meanwhile the parliament has called a full session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to impeach the president , but there is uncertainty about whether the hardliners can actually muster a sufficient majority . |
| 29 | Mr Cowan , who has an 11-year-old son , plans to call a meeting to discuss ways of tackling the problem . |
| 30 | Sir Geoffrey intends to call a meeting of the committee early next week . |