Example sentences of "call on [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Building and civil engineering group Costain intended maintaining its dividend total for 1991 at 12¼p when calling on shareholders for £79m last April . |
| 2 | The outturn tops the £1½m forecast in December , when calling on shareholders for £3m — with a 1-for-3 rights issue at 43p a share — at the same time as announcing the acquisition of Mediterranean flotilla holiday specialist Sunsail International , for £8m in shares . |
| 3 | ALBERT Martin Holdings , the Nottingham-based supplier of underwear to Marks & Spencer , is calling on shareholders for £4.17m with a 1-for-3 rights issue at 70p a share , against a price of 88p , down 2 , in the market . |
| 4 | Cashcall : Property giant MEPC is calling on shareholders for £221.9m to refurbish and re-develop properties , buy new ones and strengthen its balance sheet . |
| 5 | Kingfisher is calling on shareholders for as much as £313 million in a two-part rights issue to part finance the deal . |
| 6 | THE advertising and marketing services group , Gold Greenlees Trott , is calling on shareholders for £14.7 million in a one-for-three rights issue aimed at providing elbow-room for more acquisitions . |
| 7 | Calling on powers best left unsummoned , he took human beings apart — and then he put them back together again . |
| 8 | Forbes spoke rapidly : ‘ It was a woman calling on instructions from the kidnappers . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean why are n't I peeling potatoes in the cookhouse instead of calling on actresses in their dressing-rooms ? |
| 10 | The medical newspaper , Meditsinskaya Gazeta is calling on doctors to finish every consultation with the words " Save Losinskii Ostrov " . |
| 11 | Thousands of Palestinians fled their jobs in Israel and returned home , denouncing the shootings as a massacre of innocents , and calling on Arabs to observe three black days of mourning . |
| 12 | All week-end he drove about the outer suburbs with Jannie and the boys , calling on relatives and letting fall the news in the course of conversation . |
| 13 | The proseution , calling on boxes of financial records and documents , say How deceived his investors by channelling their savings into speculative building projects in France . |
| 14 | A conference attended by 200 delegates unanimously supported a motion calling on ministers to scrap proposals to reduce the annual multi-million pound arts budget . |
| 15 | The Rev Lesley Gready , vicar of St Cuthbert 's , is now calling on parishoners to attend a special meeting after evening mass on Ash Wednesday , March 4 , when details of a massive fund-raising drive will be announced . |
| 16 | One commercial , or perhaps ‘ propaganda film ’ is a better description , that does this is a controversial piece arguing against Third World debt and calling on viewers to lobby their MPs . |
| 17 | General industrial sales staff and Cromadex centre managers have together been calling on customers to explain the advantages of the new organisation . |
| 18 | He 'd taken to calling on Fridays for his money . |
| 19 | Gerry Adams , president of the IRA 's political wing Sinn Fein , yesterday joined the terrorists ' anti-drug drive , calling on authorities to take more action . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , on May 14 a military helicopter circled over Riga ( Latvia 's capital ) dropping leaflets produced by the International Front calling on opponents of independence to stage a strike on May 15 , which in the event was supported by as many as 12,000 people . |
| 21 | The co-ordinating council of the officers ' assemblies set up in January [ see p. 38730 ] sent a message to the summit calling on delegates to agree on the draft proposals on military issues , to halt troop withdrawal from eastern Europe until social protection for servicemen could be assured , and to maintain the military at an adequate level for defence . |
| 22 | ‘ We are calling on Members of Parliament to support the Parliamentary campaign ensuring that the policy of ‘ Born Too Soon ’ is not adopted and that every individual is provided with the proper medical care regardless of age , size , race or gender . |
| 23 | It 's about collison of cultures in Britain since the end of the war , and it looks at the way that some artists of non-British origin have come to terms with modern art — or , rather , have made a personal art by calling on ways of expression that might have been absolutely native to them in other countries than this . |
| 24 | Private steel companies sought injunctions against the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation who were calling on workers in the private sector of the steel industry to come out on strike to support workers in the public sector who were striking over pay . |
| 25 | He also criticised the MPs for not calling on loyalists to call off their campaign , despite the fact that ‘ they killed more people than the IRA last year ’ . |
| 26 | The owner is calling on politicians to take action … and has been promised that they will . |
| 27 | This was not welcomed by all the students , some of whom left the College after the secretary 's dismissal , causing it to issue an advertisement calling on clients not to employ them as farriers . |
| 28 | The Profitboss also believes that every single company employee is a sales person , whether on the road calling on clients , or in Accounts processing invoices . |
| 29 | THE East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military installations against possible attacks by demonstrators . |
| 30 | THE East German army last night intervened in the crisis gripping the country for the first time , warning that ‘ chaos and anarchy ’ would not be tolerated and calling on troops to protect military bases against possible attacks by demonstrators . |