Example sentences of "[verb] been called in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The federal army has been called in to act as a buffer in areas of high tension . |
| 2 | The official receiver has been called in to work out how much the firm , which folded last year , owed . |
| 3 | THE FBI has been called in to investigate the deaths of British spy Ian Spiro and his family . |
| 4 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |
| 5 | Might the Mr Chairman I was just wondering if it 's worth just mentioning that the , since the Redhill Airport proposal which does include a privately funded motorway link erm point erm has gone to and has been called in to the determination I believe by the Minister , but er we are sort of pending er holding our horses until that er er is nearer the time is that not perhaps |
| 6 | A police helicopter has been called in to search for an armed robber who 's raided five petrol stations in three weeks . |
| 7 | They 've already complained about the original police investigation , and another force has been called in to re-examine the case . |
| 8 | He said ; We are searching the area of Witney and the force helicopter has been called in , but we do need witnesses to come forward . |
| 9 | The fraud squad has been called in to investigate the activities of John Allen insurance . |
| 10 | The army has been called in to help rehouse some badgers . |
| 11 | The army has been called in to help rehouse a group of badgers . |
| 12 | Interpol has been called in to try and help trace a man who 's been missing in Bosnia for almost a year . |
| 13 | Now , Countrywatch … a firm from Herefordshire has been called in . |
| 14 | Detective Supt Gareth Jones , deputy head of North Wales CID , has been called in to head the inquiry and a post-mortem examination was carried out by Home Office pathologist Dr Donald Waite . |
| 15 | A SENIOR schools inspector has been called in to investigate claims that a young boy was hit by a teacher in front of his classmates . |
| 16 | HEALTH secretary William Waldegrave has been called in to settle the row over an impending shake-up of health care in the North-East . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Hartlepool Labour candidate Peter Mandelson has been called in by trainees from Billingham 's Astra Training Centre . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most entertaining tale came late afternoon , with anonymous telephone calls stating that a nosey employee of Marks & Spencer ( down 1 at 329p ) having been called in to deputy chairman Clinton Silver 's office , saw a piece of paper suggesting the retailer was set to bid the debt-laden supermarket group , Asda ( off ½ at 31p ) . |
| 19 | In spite of the charter having been called in and the old Puritan ruling party apparently crushed , he rapidly attained considerable influence , as was sourly noted by the ardently imperialistic customs official , Edward Randolph [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | Indeed , Glenure 's relationship with the Camerons of Callart and of Lochiel was more fraught , troops having been called in to collect rents and effect evictions while he factored these forfeited estates . |
| 21 | THE doors of the Queen 's dressmaker Norman Hartnell opened as normal yesterday despite receivers having been called in . |
| 22 | Gallaghers bought the club for £1.25million in 1986 after the receiver had been called in . |
| 23 | When she heard how a new doctor had been called in , all the familiar names having left Florence previously thinking it was to be plunged into war , she felt indignant — why was she not called in , she who knew more about Mrs Browning 's illnesses than any other person ? |
| 24 | During my own research into sea dumping at the time , I was told that in 1976 a team from the Atomic Energy Authority had been called in to decontaminate the Topaz , a ship used to dump Belgian waste , after the wrong type of drum container had been used . |
| 25 | Raymond Starr , Director of Child Care and Family Services , confirmed that his agency had been called in because Orkney Islands Council did not have the resources to deal with a case of this kind . |
| 26 | He would look at Harry , the picture of health and happiness and , while marvelling at his steady uncomplicated progress , suddenly think of the child 's mother , a travesty of the woman he had once known , suffering , it would seem , from chronic post-natal depression , so much so that , on Winifred Shalcross 's advice , a second specialist had been called in . |
| 27 | The second specialist who had been called in — a man by the name of Adams — had assured Brian that his wife would recover in time , but he did not share his optimism . |
| 28 | Hays had been called in to clean up Hollywood following the wave of scandals which began when Roscoe ‘ Fatty ’ Arbuckle was tried for rape and manslaughter , and continued with the murder of William Desmond Taylor . |
| 29 | MI6 , Scotland Yard and the FBI had been called in to hunt for the shadowy Surrey-born spy . |
| 30 | As we shall discuss later , David Norman , head of Russell Reynolds in 1980 , was responsible — helped by international teamwork — for finding Sir Ian McGregor for British Steel , the first time in Britain that headhunters had been called in to find a new boss for a nationalised industry . |