Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun sg] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to official Soviet sources , members of a paramilitary group called the Mkhedrioni , allied to the pro-Congress parties , on the evening of Sept. 18 kidnapped and assaulted Vazh Adamiya , a prominent figure in the rival Round Table coalition , and afterwards exchanged gunfire with Round Table supporters on Tbilisi 's main Rustaveli Prospekt . |
| 2 | The body armour of these creatures was constructed partly of lime and partly of a horny substance called chitin . |
| 3 | These are then connected to the paraglider wing with many string-like strands of a strong material called Dyneema . |
| 4 | To end this book a chapter will , therefore , be devoted to the history of a fictitious place called Combsburgh , with the objects of demonstrating ways in which data obtained by careful research may subsequently be incorporated into a narrative . |
| 5 | Kim Ku inspired a series of strikes at the end of December 1945 and issued statements of a Napoleonic character calling for the dissolution of political parties and the recognition of a new government . |
| 6 | Prepare for a far-fetched tale of a prospective bird-breeder called ‘ Rambo ’ , a burly former Yorkshire miner who admits he prefers his ducks buried under a mountain of cranberry sauce . |
| 7 | Prepare for a far-fetched tale of a prospective bird-breeder called ‘ Rambo ’ , a burly former Yorkshire miner who admits he prefers his ducks buried under a mountain of cranberry sauce . |
| 8 | In 1968–9 I wrote a novel , The Snow-White Soliloquies , which tells the story of a girl who endures a living death in a glass coffin , and is trailed around the country in a glass vehicle by a motley collection of social misfits ( dwarves ) under the supervision of a sinister authority-figure called Doc . |
| 9 | The talk in Moscow now is of a 21-year-old ballerina called Nadezhda Gratchova . |
| 10 | Much of this new energy is imported : Holy Trinity follows the ideas of a Californian preacher called John Wimber , a man with no formal theological training who leads a body called the Renewal Movement . |
| 11 | TRAVELLERS face chaos next week because of a one-day strike called by the biggest rail union . |
| 12 | Old Will , God bless his kind eyes , was really taken with the idea : in a play he is now busily writing , he has a scene where witches , on a blasted heath in Scotland , put insidious ideas into the mind of a murderous nobleman called Macbeth . ) |
| 13 | The Playhouse in Oxford presents the adventures of a scatty Princess called Foolina — a fantastical fairy-tale of magic and romance . |
| 14 | Their race at the Maze Meeting was the subject of a sporting print called ‘ The Dean and the Quaker ’ and the name was later adopted by a local tavern . |
| 15 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 16 | If members of a conquering nation called upon the nation they had conquered and continued to hold down to forget their specific nationality and position , to ‘ sink national differences ’ and so forth , that was not internationalism , it was nothing else but preaching to them submission to the yoke , and attempting to justify and perpetuate the domination of the conqueror under the cloak of internationalism . |
| 17 | In the Steetley-Tarmac case , Thames Plc and Steetley Plc intended to merge all of their interests in building materials by way of a joint venture called Allied . |
| 18 | The main plot of Mansfield Park , on the other hand , is that of a young girl called Fanny Price and her development along the obstacles in which she finds she has to overcome in life which eventually takes her from a stage of immaturity to a stage of maturity . |
| 19 | A more inquiring mind might also have drawn a different conclusion from the most peculiar episode in the book , which concerns the death in Liege in 1922 of a young man called Kleine . |
| 20 | Our readings this week are extracts from a book called Run Baby Run which tells the true story of a young man called Nicky Cruz . |
| 21 | Pupils will love this funny story of a young robot called Tonk . |
| 22 | The anniversary publicity also involved a video of a young band called Sanctuary singing , ‘ John , we want you Home ’ , which they had written for us , and a number of colleagues and others running in the London marathon wearing Friends of John McCarthy running vests , one bearing the number 17.4.86 . |
| 23 | Following studies by Eastern Region 's engineers , a new tracklaying strategy was introduced in 1987 whereby — with the use of a new machine called the Dynamic Track Stabiliser — tracks could be handed back by 06.00 on Monday morning at the full 125mph line speed , eliminating the need for a temporary speed restriction and associated recovery time allowance . |
| 24 | This problem has been cleared up by the setting of a new standard called DPMI which defines exactly how a pair of enhanced mode programs are to work together . |
| 25 | Kevin Steeds was 29 when he became finance director and company secretary of a new company called Citigate . |
| 26 | Once that 's complete , overhead electrics will be extended to Reading as part of a new service called CrossRail . |
| 27 | The whole show for the election of a new Speaker called for the talents of a W P Frith . |
| 28 | It is , however , made of a new fabric called KS1000L . |
| 29 | Willie Moe snorted and picked up the boy by the leg and started to whirl him as if winding him up , which was part of a new routine called ‘ The Living Propeller ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Several subtle changes will require more skills from the riders , and with the addition of a new complex called the ‘ Bull Pens ’ it is thought that the optimum time will be harder to achieve , ’ says Michael Tucker . |