Example sentences of "have call in " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | SHARP & LAW , the Bradford-based shopfitter , has called in Cork Gully as administrative receiver following a demand from Barclays Bank for about £18m of outstanding loans . |
2 | Dumenil has called in Touche Ross as independent accountants to assess the scale of the problem . |
3 | A RACEHORSE tycoon named as one of Britain 's richest men two years ago has called in the receivers . |
4 | THE Bank of England has called in fraud squad detectives to investigate claims that two bank officials took bribes from crooked BCCI bosses . |
5 | Xerox is today expected to announce that it has called in New York investment banker Goldman Sachs & Co to try to find a buyer for the company . |
6 | Mail order computer retailer and manufacturer Chipboards Plc has called in the receivers , Robson Rhodes , which are now trying to sell the combined or separate businesses and assets of the group as a going concern : the company comprises a Chipboards division , which sells clone personal computers , upgrades and peripherals by mail order and has a turnover of £8m ; and a Chipset division , which manufactures high-end clone personal computers such as file servers , Unix machines and workstations for computer-aided design and generates £3m in revenues ; Chipboards was set up in 1987 , is based in Bisley , near Woking , Surrey , and claims to have a customer base of 20,000 . |
7 | Rochester Telephone Co , Rochester , New York has called in Bell Communications Research Inc to help with a study into whether or not to deploy a broadband fibre optic network in its local service area . |
8 | But just to be on the safe side , the UN has called in its senior officials to be fitted with bullet-proof waistcoats . |
9 | The emergence of new-right governments in the 1980s has called in question the previous welfare consensus , and apparently signalled a drive towards the ‘ recommodification ’ of areas of social life previously handled by public policy decision . |
10 | Father Moore is only a brief visitor ; he has called in crisply to pay his respects , exchange a few words of banter with Patsy ( also a brother-in-law of somebody ) , and to inform Siobhan that next year he will be personally heading a pilgrimage to Knock so as to ward off any unfortunate flukes of the road . |
11 | Siward has called in his levies and has begun to march north . ’ |
12 | ‘ Commpress ’ which publishes magazines and newpapers for councils across Scotland , has called in the receivers . |
13 | The company has called in environmental consultants , Sustainability Ltd , to carry out an independent audit , with a report to be published later in the year . |
14 | The RSPCA has called in the Ministry of Agriculture to investigate the living conditions of animals on a farm which was hit by an arson attack . |
15 | One of the most exclusive boarding schools in the country has called in a team of debt collectors to recover unpaid fees from parents . |
16 | The Sunday Times has called in an Oxford historian to help with its serialisation of the Goebbels diaries . |
17 | A LISBURN engineering firm has called in a ‘ company doctor ’ after shedding 90 staff , it was revealed today . |
18 | SureStyle Windows , which has called in the receivers , hit the headlines after revelations about the hard-sell tactics of its NorthEast sales staff . |
19 | A VILLAGE church eager to fly its standard has called in a fire turntable to help rethread its flagpole lanyard . |
20 | A LANDLORD has called in the ombudsman to investigate claims that he was shortchanged by Darlington council . |
21 | Now based at Oakhanger , Philip has built the business up so now he has three vans , all his own equipment , employs five full-time staff and regularly has to call in sub-contractors . |
22 | There is one community that is chortling to itself over IBM Corp 's worldwide shredding of its mainframe price list , and that is the big leasing companies : while any prudent data processing manager has to call in Amdahl Corp , Hitachi Data Systems Ltd and Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH to be sure that the bid is n't a rip-off , there is still the nagging doubt that other people may be getting much better deals from IBM , and the only community that sees a wide variety of deals going down is the leasing fraternity , and the big ones say their people have n't been so busy in ages ; the effect of all this is to stretch out the buying process by weeks , to the likely detriment of the IBM first quarter figures . |
23 | Occasionally he has to call in his assistant , a young Algerian Parisian called Farwaggi , to translate , but most of Farwaggi 's job is to make sure tapes are delivered , CVs collected and taxis ordered . |
24 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
25 | So far , she had killed no one , but the vicar of St Andrew 's had once had to call in Doctor Bailey as he was in agony with severe stomach pains , and had had to admit that he had taken tea and sandwiches with a peculiar and pungent filling , at Dotty Harmer 's a few hours before . |
26 | IBM Corp has had to call in the headhunters again to find itself a new chief financial officer : it has tapped Russell Reynolds Associates , and the executive search firm says that it was actually hired by IBM prior to appointment of Louis Gerstner as chairman and chief executive . |
27 | But in that case , why could they not have called in the authorities and have the other fellows cleared out ? — only this would have made but a tame end to the story . |
28 | The Chief Constable must have called in the Yard within a few minutes of getting the news . |
29 | However , when his mother , Adele Britton , tried to remove it , she realised she would have to call in the professionals . |
30 | We 'll just have to call in the receivers . |