Example sentences of "called to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior lawyers called to circuit |
| 2 | But when I turned up at the hospital they put me on call and I was called to Casualty to anaesthetise a man . |
| 3 | ‘ Stranded ’ bird flies off from its rescuer FIREMEN were called to council buildings in Middlesbrough yesterday to rescue a cockatiel which was stranded on a 25ft high ledge . |
| 4 | The party was ‘ called to life by the whole course of the Russian and international workers ’ movement' , confronted as the movement was by the enormous political , military , economic and ideological power at the disposal of the tsarist regime and the ruling classes in the age of imperialism . |
| 5 | Like Patriarch Tikhon , but rather later , the Catholic Archbishop Cieplak was called to trial for 17 November 1922 . |
| 6 | Mr Fuchs has made it clear that he can not be called to task for the museum 's deficit and has blamed two principal factors . |
| 7 | Like the aristocracy , therefore , the Church could count on its urban mob , and in the riots of 1766 the Orders were accused of releasing this urban clientèle against a reforming administration ; Aranda , the most conspicuous of Charles III 's anti-clerical ministers , called to power to deal with the rioters , seems to have planned a serious attack on poverty precisely because he feared the influence of a Church with a monopoly of outdoor relief . |
| 8 | The chairman 's homily called to mind the short — but too long — talk he and Marilyn had suffered two days before in the vicar 's study . |
| 9 | Crocker 's cautious approach to the electricity showroom , his quick sidelong glances , called to mind days long gone by when Wexford , then a sixth-form boy , had witnessed this same man as a child of ten , scuttling up to front doors playing ‘ Knocking Down Ginger ’ . |
| 10 | His words called to mind our own culpability , which we find hard to admit . |
| 11 | ( I have since called to mind G. K. Chesterton 's remark in Heretics that ideas are dangerous and most dangerous to the man of no ideas : ‘ the man of no ideas will find the first idea fly to his head like wine to the head of a teetotaller . ’ ) |
| 12 | She leaned closer to Alice , so that Alice could smell a warm perfume , reminiscent of a flower , the name of which could not be called to mind . |
| 13 | The two incidents which were called to mind related to the Company golf scene . |
| 14 | A few — Shales , certainly , and Charlotte Feaver — did n't attempt to disguise their pleasure that the Society 's most ebullient and unrepentant member was here finally called to heel . |
| 15 | But Roxanne loves another and Cyrano nobly agrees to act as the surrogate author of love letters from his comrade in arms , the dumbly handsome Christian de Neuvillette ( Vincent Perez ) until both suitors are called to duty in the war against Spain . |
| 16 | The greatest of 'em all , Abraham Lincoln , received a belated musical nod during 1968 , when songwriter Dick Holler linked the 16th President 's name to that of the Kennedy 's and Martin Luther King to provide Dion with a three million seller in ‘ Abraham , Martin And John ’ , while Ulysses Simpson Grant , the next Republican to be called to office in Lincoln 's wake , was hailed by Patrick Gilmore 's ‘ President Grant 's March ’ , which still gets played at the White House during various ceremonies , though far older is ‘ Hail To The Chief ’ , a ditty based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott , which was first played at the inauguration of James Knox Polk , in 1845 , and has been retained to announce the arrival of presidents ever since . |
| 17 | Senior civil servants called to policy sessions in No. 10 , says one insider , have their own four-minute warning-system . |
| 18 | There was the man demobbed from his regiment who came to do the garden just as he had before he was called to war . |
| 19 | AN ARMY bomb disposal team were called to farmland at Medstead last week to investigate a suspect device . |
| 20 | Iain Guest is the reporter in next Sunday 's BBC-1 Everyman programme , Called To Account ( 10.20pm ) , which examines justice in Chile . |
| 21 | Scrutiny of policy and legislation would become less exacting ; the government of the day would be less insistently called to account . |
| 22 | They can and will be called to account . |
| 23 | Therefore , they need the democratic powers and the rights of the European Parliament to be developed to ensure that those who are elected can be called to account . |
| 24 | In revolutionary France the Legislative Assembly set up in October 1791 a permanent diplomatic committee before which the foreign minister could be called to account ; and this process was pushed to its logical conclusion when in April 1794 the Convention abolished the ministry of foreign affairs and replaced it with a Commission of Foreign Relations subject to the Committee of Public Safety . |
| 25 | More than 100,000 people who live and work in the city are being called to action tomorrow in a bid to score a hat-trick of victories in the friendly fitness competition . |