Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] call [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was less interest in the possibility of home delivery , although mobile shops calling at the door would be an obvious service to housebound consumes . |
| 2 | She could n't be found when social workers called at the family home . |
| 3 | Separate demonstrations called by the UNCP and the Nepal Communist Party ( NCP ) in Kathmandu on April 9 drew 8,000 and 10,000 activists respectively despite an 11-hour curfew which also covered Patan and the other nearby town of Lalitpur . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Anti-road campaigners called for the government to guarantee long-term protection for Oxleas Wood and pointed out that the change of mind did not necessarily signal a change of policy , with the government 's £23,000 million roads programme continuing to threaten 160 sites of special scientific interest , many of them more valuable than Oxleas Wood . |
| 6 | A report recently published by the Council for National Parks calls upon the government to make a much stronger commitment to protect the environmental values for which the parks were originally created . |
| 7 | It echoed reports of the Confidential Enquiry into Perioperative Deaths calling for the appropriate supervision of junior doctors , especially outside normal working hours . |
| 8 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 9 | Chinese leaders called on the USA to end sanctions and to withdraw the threat of punitive tariffs under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act , invoked over restrictions on US imports [ see p. 38530 ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And the terrible moment when he heard the sound of officious voices calling to the driver to stop and Craig had taken his chance and leaped from the back of the van and disappeared into the dark streets of World 's End . |
| 12 | County had lost six of their last eight League games at the Baseball Ground , which had prompted disgruntled supporters to call for the resignation of manager Arthur Cox . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The incensed Norwegian Lapps called in the authorities , who had to hire a helicopter to go in and confiscate the wire . |
| 16 | The Central American participants called for the liberalization of the banana market in view of the possible drop in banana exports once the European single market was established at the end of 1992 . |
| 17 | This will involve the deposition of four expert witnesses called by the Lebanon and Yugoslavia : Richard Camber , a former member of Sotheby 's staff ; Felicity Nicholson of Sotheby 's Antiquities department ; art historian Marlia Mango who catalogued the silver for Sotheby 's ; and Anna Bennett of the Institute of Archaeology in London who cleaned and restored it . |
| 18 | Among them , Jean Fraser with her Celestial Bodies calls upon the services of two nuns and a nude female to help recreate Manet 's famous Dejeuner sur l'Herbe , while Deborah Bright makes her point by interpolating an ambivalent , bisexual figure into a number of famous film stills so that what was originally a one to one male/ female relationship now appears to be a menage-a-trois . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In a hard-hitting statement at the end of a recent workshop on ‘ Communication and Prophecy ’ , held in Harare , Zimbabwe , women from nine African countries called on the Church in Africa to ‘ re-examine its leadership structures and strategies that have made it vulnerable to manipulation by government ’ . |
| 23 | As the government moved towards honouring its promise to restore religious freedom , the newly created Ministry of Religious Affairs called upon the churches " to contribute to the moral redemption of the nation " . |
| 24 | The roaming agreement , which the operator says is the first of several to be signed this year , already enables Swiss users to call into the region of France that extends from south of Auxerre in northern Burgundy to Marseille and Nice . |
| 25 | Labour MPs called for the security services to be put under the control of a Commons committee , and barraged John Major with questions . |
| 26 | Recent protests by disillusioned supporters calling for the dismissal of player-boss John Carroll have prompted the club to get both sides together to discuss the club 's situation . |
| 27 | Senior front-benchers called for the party to reflect and rebuild , rather than offer ‘ instant wisdom ’ on the reasons it lost . |
| 28 | The local vicar and local MP Stan Crowther added their names to a petition of local worthies calling for the council to change its mind . |
| 29 | The key point being made with these examples is that decisions involving qualitative factors call for the use of judgement by the manager . |
| 30 | Qualitative factors call for the exercise of managerial judgement , and decisions involving value considerations should be taken , or at least reviewed , at a higher management level . |