Example sentences of "[adv] call [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |
| 2 | The dangers of too close inspection are obvious , and Long Kin West especially calls for caution : this hole descends vertically for over 500 feet from a rock bridge across its top carrying a track from Cold Cotes on the old road . |
| 3 | In fact , the coach — drawn by two grey horses — was only called into service once the couple were out of the public gaze . |
| 4 | For the average funeral the pall-bearer was expected to perform his duties en route as well as within the church ; whereas at the funerals of the great , the pall-bearers were only called into service once the coffin was at the church and ready to proceed up the nave . |
| 5 | Stand-in goalkeeper Graham Mitchell was only called into action three times in the second half , but on two of those occasions he was collecting the ball from the net behind him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 8 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 9 | Kelling Hall was Maufe 's first country house , built on the daring ‘ Butterfly ’ plan , so called on account of its shape . |
| 10 | full captain of the British navy commanding a ship of 20 guns or more ; so called in contradistinction to a commander because his name was ‘ posted ’ in the seniority list . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | A special category of illustrated book is the ‘ extra-illustrated ’ or , ‘ grangerised ’ work , so called after James Granger ( 1723–76 ) who , in 1769–74 , published a five volume Biographical History of England with blank leaves for the purchaser to add additional illustrative material-portraits , facsimiles , plans , topographical scenes , even original letters and documents . |
| 13 | The more serious charge of " co-authorship of genocide " had been substituted at the request of the prosecution on Feb. 1 on the strength of evidence which had emerged during the trial , notably an eyewitness account of Dinca personally calling for troops to be ordered to shoot demonstrators in Bucharest on Dec. 22 . |
| 14 | But in order to respond fully , our active participation as spectators is very obviously called into play — as well as called into question . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They will be debating a European Commission directive which only calls on EC television stations to screen a majority of European programmes , where possible . |
| 17 | Thus in the full range of surnames we find examples of patronymics , metronymics — formations based on a mother 's name and sometimes called matronymics — font names , personal and pet names , and diminutives all called into service . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The real value of a key deposited with a neighbour comes when you are ill or incapacitated and can only call for help or reach the phone , but not reach the front door . |
| 20 | ‘ And that you may better call to God for Repentance , and find Mercy , and do good Works , the Officer of Eskdale-Side shall blow his Horn Out on you , Out on you , for the heinous crime of you . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Where will our exporters be if one day the foreign shipowners find it cheaper only to call in Rotterdam with just a few feeder services to this country ? ’ |
| 22 | On 7 February 1968 he failed to meet a friend , who was worried enough to call at Adams 's house on El Roble in Beverly Hills to find out what had happened to him . |
| 23 | In none of these cases could the exposure be classified as substantial enough to call into question the validity of the control schools . |
| 24 | A few — Shales , certainly , and Charlotte Feaver — did n't attempt to disguise their pleasure that the Society 's most ebullient and unrepentant member was here finally called to heel . |
| 25 | Derby 's keeper Steve Sutton was finally called into action in the 57th minute , turning a drive from Fabris round the post . |
| 26 | An alternative vision of human flourishing to that which underlies wealth maximisation as a social goal ranks autonomy above continued increases in material well-being , and thus calls into question the legitimacy of non-participative organisations . |
| 27 | The ability of the electoral system to produce a government in the way previously expected of it was thus called into question . |
| 28 | And he has already called on Chancellor Norman Lamont to make a Commons statement ‘ as a matter of the utmost urgency ’ setting out the Government 's intentions . |
| 29 | Campaign chairman Lord Elis-Thomas has already called on Mr Redwood to postpone the plans by his predecessor , David Hunt , to amalgamate Meirionnydd with both Arfon and Dwyfor . |
| 30 | This means that instead of being a monolithic operating system running monolithic applications , the program just calls in bits of code as they are needed from libraries of routines — rather the same way that ICL Plc 's VME mainframe operating system works . |