Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] be called [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 It is a great mistake to suppose that a solicitor can get along without having mastered the legal topics with which he is called upon to deal .
2 If we regard our guide as simply looking for advice as to what moral rules are correct , unrelated to a particular decision which he is called upon to make or to a particular situation in which he is involved then it will be impartiality of the first and last types which are particularly relevant : that is , the formal requirement that legislation is to be universalised , and the material requirement that the decisions made are based on a consideration of all relevant factors .
3 It was the first acting venture in which he was called upon to perform a love scene .
4 It is obviously in an uncomfortably contradictory position — squeezed between the expectations of the bureaucracies on which it relies and its political affiliation to the struggles of the mass of blacks which it is called upon to mediate , translate and sometimes police .
5 A good thesaurus or list of subject headings is not necessarily one that has been carefully presented , printed and published , with a plethora of effective relationship displays , but rather a list that has been compiled to serve in the retrieval environment in which it is called upon to operate .
6 No country , however rich , can permanently afford to have quartered upon its revenue a class which declined to do the duty which it was called upon to perform . ’
7 In its Report of 1973 , the Royal Commission on the Constitution ( the Kilbrandon Commission ) detected three vices in the then-existing constitutional structure of the United Kingdom which it was called upon to review .
8 Afterwards I had no sense that I had been forgiven , but I had done what I was called upon to do and there it must rest .
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