Example sentences of "[was/were] call [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The southern colonies did not contribute much to the war in America and though they were called on to help , there was no co-ordinated organization for strategy . |
| 2 | After the strike , however , they were called on to return to their ‘ service role ’ for the miners , and they faced difficulties sustaining both their solidarity and their ability to build on their new-found strength ( see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | In the absence of a well-organized party machine , it was his friends and colleagues who were called on to turn out for hurriedly organized demonstrations . |
| 4 | That was a time for rejoicing and oaths of loyalty ; but now every man was called on to help decide the future of the clan . |
| 5 | And this afternoon the Prime Minister was called on to act . |
| 6 | Gavin was called on to act as press liaison officer . |
| 7 | Victor Matterface , the Brakes Inspector of the Metropolitan tramways , who later became a well-known Tramway Engineer elsewhere , describes how he was called on to visit South Metropolitan depôts as well as in the 1920's . |
| 8 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 9 | Mark , 26 , is a former Army medic who was called up to man a field hospital during the Gulf War . |
| 10 | My dad was called in to school to see the Headmaster about my little brother . |
| 11 | The march was then diverted down Albert Road and the police Special Operations Service was called in to x-ray the package found to be rubbish wrapped in a newspaper and cling film . |
| 12 | A police helicopter was called in to floodlight the area outside Kelvedon railway station where the 14-year-old girl was trapped . |
| 13 | Hello there , erm I was calling in to sort of object to the erm whole presentation of recent events in the , in the Soviet Union . |