Example sentences of "have called a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has called a seminar in nine days to discuss ‘ The Urge For Self Destruction ’ . |
| 2 | With the election out of the way , the Commission has called a halt to the period in which British questions were either postponed or handled with kid gloves . |
| 3 | IBM Corp chairman Louis Gerstner has called a halt to plans to break up the company , the Financial Times claimed yesterday : the paper said Gerstner told a group of executives , ‘ The whole of IBM is greater than the sum of its parts , ’ and put the strategy into reverse ; John Akers had planned to bring outside investors into some of the decentralised IBM units such as AdStar and Pennant Systems , and was planning to sell some of them outright . |
| 4 | Boycott has called a meeting of his own Wakefield members for next Tuesday and seems set on leading a campaign to unseat the majority of the committee , something he managed once before , in January 1984 . |
| 5 | ‘ The Council of Guardians , ’ Benstede replied wearily , ‘ has called a meeting of the Great Council . |
| 6 | O'Brien has called a meeting of all last season 's Ellesmere Port players for a week on Thursday ( June 24 ) . |
| 7 | The health authority has called a meeting with the local councils and Chester and Ellesmere Port Community Health Council . |
| 8 | Incidentally , McMillan has called a meeting of all curlers at Perth on 27 February , when a players ' group or association will come a step nearer reality . |
| 9 | He has called a summit on Thursday for the 14 clubs who opposed Arsenal , Liverpool , Manchester United , Everton , Leeds , Aston Villa , Nottingham Forest and Queens Park Rangers . |
| 10 | purists may have an essential moral objection that this approach is false — what Ruskin or Morris would have called a lie . |
| 11 | I could have called a policeman . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd never have called a boy Apricot . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose that 's when we should have called a halt , but now I do n't know how either of us could bear it . ’ |
| 14 | If Montini had immediately succeeded Pius XII , it is unlikely that he would have called a Council . |
| 15 | Wolski 's defences had crumbled and what some might have called a breakdown was the beginning of his recovery to the kindly determined man , or nearly man , he had been before Sobibor . |
| 16 | To achieve it he had to work on individuals , exploiting relationships which were not open , public ones : he could not have called a meeting to appeal to everyone 's obligations as a relative by descent and by marriage , as if these were of the same kind as those of a citizen , an Arab or a Muslim . |
| 17 | And they used to call a meeting and this horse breeding society would have called a meeting you know the ones that looked after choosing the horse they were gon na select for this certain season you see . |
| 18 | By the time I reached her signature I was half-packed and had called a taxi for Paddington station . |
| 19 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 20 | Gloucester had not only ended the division within the Neville family but , through his relationship with Northumberland , had called a halt to the long-standing hostility of Neville and Percy . |
| 21 | In four years Henry may , at best , have added about £100,000 per annum to his ordinary revenue , and fairly soon the taxpayers had called a halt to further intervention abroad . |
| 22 | Gloucester had not only ended the division within the Neville family but , through his relationship with Northumberland , had called a halt to the long-standing hostility of Neville and Percy . |
| 23 | It was Morse himself , too , who at 8.30 p.m. had called a halt to everything . |
| 24 | We wanted to retain what the Soviets had called a process . |
| 25 | I had called a meeting in my office , by now decorated with a number of pictures from the Government 's own art collection including a marvellous study of the railway cutting at Acton by Lucien Pissarro . |
| 26 | Six weeks after the crash , Warner had called a meeting of a dozen of his friends . |
| 27 | Mihnea Marmeliuc , who returned as Minister of Labour and Social Security ( a post he had held in the NSF provisional government in January-June 1990 ) , immediately after his nomination was disowned by his National Liberal Party ( the second largest opposition party in parliament after the Hungarian Democratic Union ) ; the NLP had called a week before the reshuffle for the creation of an all-party coalition government . |
| 28 | The opposition National Peasants ' Party , Liberal Party and Social Democratic Party , together with student groups , had called a demonstration for Jan. 28 once again to protest against the planned NSF participation in the elections . |
| 29 | In the old days , if someone had called a journeyman craftsman a ‘ worker ’ , he would have had a fight on his hands … |
| 30 | God is not to be identified with what we have called a part of the world 's furniture : God is no more an object inside the world than an object outside it . |