Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] call [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty International issued urgent appeals calling on the Saudi Arabian authorities to clarify his fate and whereabouts , and to provide assurances that he will not be ill-treated or executed . |
| 2 | It echoed reports of the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths calling for the appropriate supervision of junior doctors , especially outside normal working hours . |
| 3 | The regional officers also wrote to the Chilean authorities calling for the prompt introduction of legislation which will give official licenses to the many community radio and TV stations that hitherto have been operating under severe restrictions . |
| 4 | In a statement issued on Sept. 22 the Group of 24 ( G-24 ) developing countries called on the international community to recognize the scale of the problems posed by the Gulf crisis . |
| 5 | Justice Foster said of the discordance between the evidence of the epidemiological witnesses called by the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations and the Tobacco Institute of Australia , ‘ It was not a disagreement which the learned primary judge or this Court could reasonably resolve . ’ |
| 6 | My reason for calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is not its resemblance in some respect to other sensations called by the same name , but its mere resemblance to them . |
| 7 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 8 | The implication of this passage is that the words ‘ sensation of white ’ denote the sensation , but connote its resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |