Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] call [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some countships were more equal than others : a " greater " count was presumably so called in part because his civitas was richer and more important , for instance , as a central place in one of the regna ( like Angers in Neustria , or Autun in Burgundy ) . |
| 2 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 3 | In at least one area this varied according to whether a person was seen by elderly services or others , because staffing profiles were much more biased towards medical care for elderly people with mental illness , with the result that other professions , such as social work , occupational therapy , and community psychiatric nursing , were less frequently called upon . |
| 4 | Scrutiny of policy and legislation would become less exacting ; the government of the day would be less insistently called to account . |
| 5 | Religious support is normally little called upon — indeed the record of most religions with regard to these issues is not regarded as good , and so it is not surprising that many see religion as the suppressor of human rights rather than as their advocate . |
| 6 | Not all called to Zaire , Brazil , etc , but we are called to SUPPORT and PRAY in specific and informed ways for those who are , and we at home must get out and reach those in our own community . |
| 7 | It does not necessarily call for an ethical content , so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest . |
| 8 | ‘ Not much call for these outside of Christmas , my love , ’ the grocer told me , dusting the boxes and rounding the outrageous total down to the nearest pound . |
| 9 | ‘ Not much call for it these days , ’ she said sullenly . |
| 10 | Work that not only calls for construction skills but also presents opportunities for BICC to supply power , telecommunications and control cable systems — another major part of our worldwide business operation . |
| 11 | Mark Ilott was in the original 12 , yet when Alan Igglesden broke down at practice the day before the match , they not only called up Phillip DeFreitas , they also played him in front of Ilott . |
| 12 | Such a reformulation would not only call for a reassessment of traditional notions and practices — balance , impartiality , objectivity , ownership , editorial sovereignty — but would also require the media to improve upon their present performances in explaining events in the world . |
| 13 | It 's not just that drama teachers are nostalgic romantics who hanker for a simpler way of life ( though there may well be an element of truth in that ) ; it 's that these self-contained communities can not easily call upon outside forces to solve their problems . |
| 14 | Moreover , writers such as Poulantzas ( e.g. 1978 ) pointed out that the state was not just called upon to meet the needs of capitalist accumulation ; in a class-divided society the long term stability of the system depended on the state 's being able to act as a force of cohesion and stand as a ‘ symbol of legitimacy ’ for all sections of society . |
| 15 | Applicants are not normally called for interview , but those given offers for our courses are invited to visit the relevant Department or School . |
| 16 | He almost certainly was not thus called by his own father . |
| 17 | And an overwhelming majority thought the photos would not further calls for tougher press controls . |
| 18 | The Premier League clubs were so unaninmous in their view against a second division that chief executive Rick Parry did not even call for a vote on the issue . |
| 19 | Even the Diet did not immediately call for offensive action against Russia , but it decided to do so when the tsar refused to negotiate on the basis of anything less than abject Polish submission . |
| 20 | He explains how he felt a tingling sensation down his left-hand side but did not immediately call for help . |
| 21 | Courageous decisions are nevertheless sometimes called for , so is this the right time to appoint a computer industry outsider to te top job at IBM ? |
| 22 | The European Commission yesterday duly called for total deregulation of telephone service in the European Community by 1998 and asked telecommunications ministers to endorse that goal at their Council of Ministers on May 10 : the UK is the only European Community country where the body responsible for installing phones and running the service has been forced to make room for a competitor , but national territorial monopolies were not suited to the needs of a single Community market and technological advances meant they were no longer justified in any case , the Commission said ; Industry Commissioner Martin Bangemann said the Commission would soon produce another paper on whether development of telephone networks should also be dealt with under a free market system , adding that the Commission believed companies from outside the Community should be free to reap the benefits of deregulation as long as EC firms were able to do likewise on those firms ' home territory ; but the Commission pulled back from recommending that large companies be free to lease spare capacity on the networks of utilities such as gas from the start of next year . |
| 23 | Perhaps the majority of the " workhouses " still so called in the last third of the eighteenth century were in no real sense distinguishable from " poorhouses " , that is from places where the impotent poor , through age or infirmity , could be lodged either until death or more temporarily . |
| 24 | On this occasion , it once more called for the formation of a popular front against fascism , which did not endear it to the leadership of the Labour Party . |
| 25 | No , but they are more frequently called upon to exercise it . |
| 26 | In 1970 , an all-party Committee of the Council had been set up to examine the future of the tramway ; rising costs had once again called into question the future of winter tramway operations . |
| 27 | The BPI clampdown following suspicious activities surrounding Don-E 's August single once again calls into question the credibility of the singles chart , after a spate of hyping controversies last year involving London Records , Rhythm King and Virgin Records and artists like S-Express and The High . |
| 28 | Town planning as we know it today was created out of the initiatives taken to tackle the problems of the late Victorian city , particularly its housing and environmental inequalities ; the late twentieth-century urban crisis is once again calling for a re-assembly of skills and methods of approach which cut across established ways of doing things . |
| 29 | We once again call upon the government of Iraq to withdraw unconditionally from Kuwait , to allow the restoration of Kuwait 's legitimate government , and to free all hostages now held in Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 30 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |