Example sentences of "who called " in BNC.
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| 1 | This effect , which is strongest over the frontal lobes , was first observed in 1964 by Grey Walter , who called it the Contingent Negative Variation . |
| 2 | Similar expressions of grief and outrage were made by Jewish organisations around the world , as well as by the European Commission and the Belgian Prime Minister , Wilfried Martens , who called the act ‘ revolting and wretched ’ . |
| 3 | One source said the general was closely scrutinising the list of telephone calls of support he received from senior officials during the coup to see who called , and whether it was before the rebellion was known to have failed . |
| 4 | Later in the day security forces stormed a candlelight protest march , beating young people who called for peaceful change . |
| 5 | Lilian Hatton was an easier nut to crack than the girl who called herself Nora Fanshawe . |
| 6 | Cardinal Jaime Sin , the influential Archbishop of Manila , who called on Filipinos to support the uprising against Marcos , joined Mrs Aquino 's appeal . |
| 7 | Cardinal Jaime Sin , the influential Archbishop of Manila , who called on Filipinos to support the uprising against Marcos , joined Mrs Aquino 's appeal . |
| 8 | It amounted to a coded acknowledgement of the barely-supressed rage of Conservative MPs , mostly on the right , whose concern over a fresh wave of ‘ large-scale immigration ’ hitting overcrowded facilities in Britain was clothed yesterday in language close to that of Mr Gerald Kaufman , the shadow Foreign Secretary , who called the plan ‘ inherently unworkable , invidious and divisive ’ , and demanded details on how it would work . |
| 9 | ‘ If this turns out to be the lady we 're looking for , she was engaged to a Treasury Minister , who called in my guv'nor . ’ |
| 10 | Yet as the ‘ butcher of Beijing ’ who called in the troops to restore order , Mr Deng was merely remaining true to his political vision and concern for party power . |
| 11 | One can assume that all the nationalists preferred O'Neill but even eighty-four per cent of those who called themselves unionists were opposed to Paisley . |
| 12 | ‘ There was a lady who called two weeks ago crying because her tortoise had died . |
| 13 | But Labour 's ranks still embrace Bernie Grant , of Tottenham , who called the party ‘ white fascists ’ , and Paul Boateng , once the GLC 's notorious anti-police campaigner , now a Treasury spokesman . |
| 14 | Mr Robin Cook , Labour 's health spokesman — who called for an early contest — and Mr Donald Dewar , Scottish spokesman , were among the first senior party figures publicly to throw their weight behind the Shadow Chancellor 's campaign . |
| 15 | He appealed to an Irishwoman , who called police with ‘ vital information ’ yesterday morning , to contact detectives again . |
| 16 | This was echoed by J. H. Matthews , recently-retired Southern District Secretary , who called for fresh efforts to recruit manual workers as voluntary branch members and held that , ideally , Tutorials were the courses which should be provided : ‘ what the WEA has emphasised and needs more thoroughly to practise is the importance of substantial and continuous study , particularly in the social sciences , as the major element in its work ’ although ‘ well conceived short courses will have their place ’ . |
| 17 | The Board 's exhibiting at shows had a limited value since it was often only those already in training groups who called at the stand . |
| 18 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 19 | The rifts of the The Fairy Melusina are heavily overloaded with ore ; during the Pre-Raphaelite Period it was admired by certain critics , including Swinburne , who called it , ‘ a quiet , muscular serpent of a tale , with more vigour and venom than is at all usual in the efforts of the female pen , but without narrative thrust ; rather , as was Coleridge 's Serpent who figured the Imagination , with its tail stuffed in its own mouth . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Who called , do we know them ? ’ |
| 21 | To obtain the latter , there emerged a peculiarly modern group of businessmen who called themselves ‘ undertakers ’ or ‘ adventurers ’ . |
| 22 | He was about to leave when he was spotted by Franco who called out to him . |
| 23 | for example , in 1986 , when that group of conservatives who called themselves the Hillgate Group published their pamphlet Whose Schools ? , they set out such fears , and many others , about what they saw as the direction of educational policy in schools . |
| 24 | Garrett ( 1986 ) quotes Hocking who called the syndrome ‘ miscare ’ and considers that many families begin their caring commitment with genuine concern and sympathy but become overwhelmed by the task , so the relationship sours , resulting in harm to the old person . |
| 25 | It was the overly loquacious Lord Macaulay who called him the Smith of Smiths . |
| 26 | Why … you mean … the man who called the other day might not have been his brother after all ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Can you give us a description of the man who called ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That was the name of one of the Frenchmen who called to see about Daniel the other day . |
| 29 | She radioed down to her senior keeper who called the vet . |
| 30 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |