Example sentences of "[noun sg] that call [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is changing fast , and clients are more and more wanting advice and action that calls for considerable finesse , knowledge , and intelligence . |
| 2 | Art & Tech has outlined an extremely ambitious programme that calls for three different mid-engined sports car to be produced . |
| 3 | Now comes the part that calls for real concentration and a steady hand — applying the glue or adhesive . |
| 4 | ‘ Be your own lawyer and you 'll have a fool for a client ’ , is an adage that calls for another : ‘ Employ a lawyer and he 'll have a pauper for a client ’ — Sunday Times . |
| 5 | Sizzling occasion that calls for cool drinks and suntan lotion |
| 6 | Making OPP film — coextruded oriented polypropylene — is a precise art that calls for careful handling . |
| 7 | It 's an exciting game that calls for great skill . |
| 8 | " A comprehensive national energy strategy that calls for energy conservation and efficiency , increased development , and greater use of alternative fuels . |
| 9 | A state of life that calls for another way of living . |
| 10 | is Above all , he was seen by the young Nietzsche as the proponent of a total philosophy , a vision of life that called for a personal , not merely an intellectual , commitment — a vision that stimulated , and even promised to satisfy , the yearning to be a personal whole attuned to the ultimate values , or non-values , of life . |
| 11 | As early as 14 September 1939 , Jonas Barrington in the Daily Express described this voice that called from Germany , though in the first instance it probably belonged to Norman Baillie-Stewart : ‘ He speaks English of the haw-haw , dammit-get-out-of-my-way-variety , and his strong suit is gentlemanly indignation . ’ |
| 12 | Both show life in a mining town with some degree of realism and Reed 's picture , about a community in which the miners are browbeaten into working a coal seam which the proprietor knows to be dangerous , links itself to the documentarist sensibility with an opening voiceover referring to those ‘ simple working people who take heroism for granted as part of their daily lives ’ , and a concluding epilogue that calls for the world to be ‘ purged of its old greeds . ’ |
| 13 | After the facts come recipes — broccoli with oyster sauce , hot-sour prawn salad , and rudjak , an Indonesian fruit and vegetable salad with hot dressing that calls for trassi ( described earlier in the book ) , an intriguing paste of rotted shrimps that smells of meat extract . |
| 14 | Rather than inventing a unique fictional world , it creates a recognisable reality that calls for accuracy . |
| 15 | The Retreat had been built in neo-classical style : twelve marble pillars rising to support a dome that called for decoration , but had none . |
| 16 | But you 've retained that particular quirky beauty that calls to something in me , some random or rogue streak , and this time I 'm answering . |
| 17 | Conference , I ask you to support this motion that calls for a publicity campaign to name those employers and establishments that exploit th their staff so they can make a fat profit , and to update the hotel list . |
| 18 | Furthermore , if authenticity is to be defined as natural language behaviour ( and it is hard to see how else it might be defined ) there is also the difficulty that learners will naturally incline to draw on their own language in any situation that calls for uncontrived linguistic communication . |
| 19 | In consequence , they tend to see a simple one-to-one relation between attitudes , interests , and group organisation , and so they take the interest group world as a given that arises " naturally " in a way that calls for no complicated explanation . |
| 20 | If , as is postulated here , usage is determined by the meaning to be expressed , the answer must be that there are two different ways of conceiving causation in English , make representing it in a way that calls for the bare infinitive , cause in a way requiring the representation of abstract movement in time signified by to . |
| 21 | In the period since the Second World War , political stability , economic growth , and a broad societal consensus , meant that the constitution as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , were all seen as of one , pulling together in mutual support in a way that called for " no change " . |
| 22 | Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change . |
| 23 | To be brutal , no plan for a branch of public expenditure that calls for an end to disparities by ‘ levelling-up resources ’ across the board will ever drown out the office CD of the former Chief Secretary to the Treasury . |
| 24 | Oxbridge institutions , though , were slow to respond to such trends and it was only towards the end of the century that calls from the ancient universities to accept a " national " role began to be heeded . |
| 25 | Although America 's electronics industries are keen for the government to renew the parts of this agreement that call for the Japanese to buy more American chips , their ardour for price-fixing has cooled . |
| 26 | They also adopted a political declaration that called for a socialist and ‘ planned-market ’ economy instead of President Boris Yeltsin 's free-market reforms . |
| 27 | In the final analysis , it must be thought of as the eternal and original artistic power that calls into being the entire world of phenomena . |
| 28 | Any response is complicated by the fact that calls on resources are different , by being long- or short-term and by being capital- or revenue-intensive . |