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Example sentences of "call off [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ .
2	The strike was called off on the following day .
3	He 's still probably sweating a little because he 's waiting to be called off at the next motorway junction .
4	A press conference Mr Kaifu had scheduled for Wednesday evening to explain what the government had decided was called off at the last minute .
5	Arrangements to introduce the new system of central scheduling were to be announced this week , but were called off at the last minute .
6	Many of the rebels , after a planned night attack had been called off at the last minute , had gone off into Inverness in search of food or were sleeping exhausted , unwilling to be roused , when news arrived of Cumberland 's approach .
7	Sheringham , who cost £2 million from Millwall 12 months ago , was lined up for Spurs a fortnight ago but the deal was called off at the last minute .
8	However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire .
9	Both were reported to have agreed , but the talks were called off at the last minute .
10	But the meeting was called off at the last minute and now Caldaire hopes to hold talks on Tuesday , February 25 .
11	A minor but telling incident : a big army exercise scheduled for last week in which French soldiers were , for the first time , to do mock battle alongside British troops in West Germany was called off at the last moment because of East Germany 's election .
12	The plan was called off at the last moment .
13	However , mass meetings organized in Vietnam to condemn " counter-revolutionaries in Poland " were called off after the Polish government formally protested at Vietnam 's " interference " in Poland 's internal affairs .