Example sentences of "[adv] call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 2 | In stratigraphy One is always using one ruler to measure another and one can only call a deposit exceptional if we have something more " normal " with which one can make a comparison . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 4 | You can only call a truce if there 's a war — " |
| 5 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 6 | Defending the decision , Dhlakama said that it was " not enough to just call a ceasefire . |
| 7 | ‘ No , you 'll not call a cab . |
| 8 | Proposal not supported by target company The court will not call a meeting if the proposal is not supported by the target company , either through its board of directors or by the company in general meeting ( see Re Savoy Hotel Ltd , para 2.4.5 above ) . |
| 9 | I 'll not call a formal divisional meeting , we had that on Wednesday . |
| 10 | The country can not be properly served by a Government who pretend that they can somehow call a halt to or defer the agreed purpose of the rest of the Community . |
| 11 | When you are interviewed for a job which may involve press relations ( and most do ) your potential employer will often call a few journalists on major publications to see what reaction they have to your name . |
| 12 | He had on what you 'd now call a yuppie look — baggy trousers and braces . |
| 13 | The vigorous characterisation of his early style , as witnessed in Flora Macdonald , gave way to what we might now call a more subtle psychological penetration . |
| 14 | But she really must send Charlie her new address and tell him how peculiar it all was ; about the strange customs , still revered because Nelson had established them ; about rooms which were now cabins , walls which had become bulkheads and a kitchen she must now call a galley . |
| 15 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 16 | The government had let it be known on Sept. 30 that it would not now call a general election in 1991 . |
| 17 | And I 'll now call a number of the officers to explain their case of their own . |
| 18 | Ian Philpot , whose girlfriend was one of the 51 people who died , says Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson must now call a public enquiry . |
| 19 | There were no brothers and sisters for me to play with , and the only one I could really call a playmate was Derek Brown who lived just ten minutes away from Low Birk Hatt at Blackton Farm . |
| 20 | You ca n't call a song ‘ Kissomatic Love Bubble ’ and hold your head up in pubic can you ? |
| 21 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 22 | You ca n't call a song ‘ Kissomatic Love Bubble ’ and hold your head up in pubic can you ? |
| 23 | I remember a drunken coversation with him along the lines of you ca n't call a cat Lukic it has to be Bonetti . |
| 24 | I note that the , this Institute of Trading Standards Administration suggests a title such as Director of Consumer and Trades Services , Director of Health and Consumer Services , Head of Regulatory Services , and Department of , I do n't want to , you ca n't call a person department . |
| 25 | They say officers did n't call a vital witness who was in the room where Wiltshire was stabbed . |
| 26 | But when I get out there I ca n't call a group . |
| 27 | ‘ Snag is , if Chelsea win in the same week as a good second Test result , he could well call a ‘ feel-good ’ election of the following Thursday … ’ |
| 28 | Why call a search in the first place ? ’ |