Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] called [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't be found when social workers called at the family home . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Last night angry shareholders called on the Deanses to go now for the good of the 117-year-old club . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The incensed Norwegian Lapps called in the authorities , who had to hire a helicopter to go in and confiscate the wire . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What I mean by calling a sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ is its mere resemblance to other sensations called by the same name . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | Labour MPs called for the security services to be put under the control of a Commons committee , and barraged John Major with questions . |
| 17 | Senior front-benchers called for the party to reflect and rebuild , rather than offer ‘ instant wisdom ’ on the reasons it lost . |