Example sentences of "[prep] call a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , imagine the embarrassment of calling a full-scale search out for somebody who is not only not in peril , but is mightily cheesed off to be awoken from a deep sleep by an RAF Sea-King helicopter blowing the filling out of their sleeping-bag ? |
| 2 | Demirel was permitted 45 days in which to form a new administration , failing which President Turgut Özal would have the option of calling a fresh election . |
| 3 | According to press reports on Dec. 15 the Most Rev. Manasses Kuria , the Archbishop of Kenya and Bishop of Nairobi , who was head of the Church of the Province of Kenya , warned KANU against calling a snap election aimed at taking advantage of the opposition . |
| 4 | Chomutov 's town hall on Tuesday sent an open letter to President Vaclav Havel saying it would deny access to all transport and would talk to unions about calling a general strike if its environmental demands were not met . |
| 5 | The day after Lloyd George 's speech to the assembled Trade Union Executives , the National Committee of the unofficial shop stewards , movement resolved to consult its members about calling a national strike linking opposition to the ‘ comb-out ’ with the demand ‘ that the Government should at once accept the invitation of the Russian Government to consider peace terms . ’ |
| 6 | Angela Cartwright , as chairman of the local Party , explained the procedure for calling a Special General Meeting if Grunte was to be de-selected , and the meeting adjourned after Carole Swan said she would take soundings among members of the Party after the conference . |
| 7 | The Education Secretary has apologised in the Commons for calling a top education official a nutter . |
| 8 | In May , Associated British Ports sought interim injunctions to prevent the Transport and General Workers Union from calling a national docks strike after a favourable ballot of 9,400 dockers employed under the Scheme . |
| 9 | WELL , YOU CAN SAY ONE thing for John Major : after ducking the date on two occasions when he might have won , he ca n't be accused of lacking courage in calling a general election when his party is at best level-pegging with Labour and , possibly , is even behind in the polls . |
| 10 | The crisis leading to Lenihan 's dismissal arose in connection with reports that in January 1982 the Fianna Fáil leadership had attempted to persuade President Patrick Hillery by telephone to allow them to try to form a government without calling a general election . |
| 11 | Greenpeace executive director Lord Melchett said that if the government gave the go-ahead without calling a public inquiry , Greenpeace would return to the courts to seek a second judicial review " with our right to do so already established " . |
| 12 | It insisted on calling a separate meeting for the kolkhoz women , so as to persuade them of their independence from their menfolk . |
| 13 | There was a tough little five-eighth — what you insist on calling a stand-off half — playing for Kempsey that day . |
| 14 | On 17 September 1945 , a fortnight after Gracey 's arrival , the Vietminh attempted to paralyse Saigon by calling a general strike . |
| 15 | Will he now do something about it by calling a general election and making way for a Labour Government committed to ridding this country of the Tory scourge of homelessness ? |
| 16 | Shortly after arriving in England , he responded to a petition from a number of Puritan ministers by calling a theological conference at Hampton Court Palace , at which he took the chair for a series of debates between his bishops and the representatives of those looking for reform . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister had tried to staunch the crisis by calling a full judicial inquiry into whether government ministers allowed businessmen to breach arms sales guidelines . |