Example sentences of "[pers pn] be called [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had I been called upon to exercise my discretion , I would have given particular consideration to the great disturbance that I have found the residents suffer . |
| 2 | I PLEDGE a complete confidential relationship to those I am called upon to serve . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As the only Englishman present at the conference in question , I was called upon to defend the late Dr Arkell 's change of usage . |
| 5 | If you are called upon to plan a programme of independent items , such as those seen at the Reunion or at Area Rallies , consider the following points : — |
| 6 | ‘ My lord protector , ’ he said , ‘ you are called upon to assume the reins of government by the loyal citizens of London . |
| 7 | However , should you be called upon to speak at a grand , formal wedding you may feel that a more erudite speech is required . |
| 8 | According to Max Gluckman , gossip and scandal are ‘ among the most important societal and cultural phenomena we are called upon to analyse ’ . |
| 9 | … Whether , as a matter of expression , you say , as was said in the case of Watson v. Fram Reinforced Concrete Co . Ltd. , that this is to be explained by postulating a continuing duty , or merely projecting the relationship of duty into the future , or whether you regard it as possible to establish a breach of duty as at birth by reference to an act antecedent to the accrual of the cause of action , may be open to debate , but it has no bearing on the precise question we are called upon to answer , namely , whether the defendant owed a duty of care to the infant plaintiff . |
| 10 | We are called upon to make such statements in all sorts of circumstances in our constituencies and sometimes we do it slightly with tongue in cheek , but I can genuinely make such a statement about many homes . |
| 11 | No refunds will be made by Cosmos in the event of your ticket being lost or stolen nor can we be called upon to replace your ticket with a new one . |
| 12 | Pensioners are aware that they do not have to pay for ITV or any other channels but that they are called upon to pay for BBC television programmes . |
| 13 | The underlying point is that much more can and should be done than at present by librarians and information scientists to bring order and control to the myriad of business information sources that they are called upon to handle . |
| 14 | On the plus side , the young , all-action staff are enthustiastic and remain good-natured despite the number of postcard messages they are called upon to deliver to your table — for you to follow-up your ( hopefully ) successful telephone chat . |
| 15 | No more will they be called upon to prove themselves by engaging in certain prescribed activities and no longer need they safeguard their hard-won reputations . |
| 16 | When political considerations took primacy over whether qualifications it is not surprising that some of the appointments were given to candidates ill-suited to the duties they were called upon to perform , such as the Lanarkshire freeholder appointed macer of the Court of Session who , according to James Boswell , ‘ had a constant hoarseness , so that he could scarcely be heard when he called the causes and the lawyers , and was indeed as unfit for a crier of court as a man could be . |
| 17 | In nineteen ninety two , ninety three they were called upon to investigate one thousand two hundred and thirty seven crimes of violence , I exclude , for various reasons those committed on the London Underground . |
| 18 | On 2 March however , they were called upon to play a more central part in the defence , as Desmond Vincent-Jones relates : ‘ The day started auspiciously when an Heinkel 111 suddenly appeared out of the dawn mist with undercarriage down and started to make an approach to the main runway , presumably mistaking Hal Far for its own base airfield in Sicily . |
| 19 | Headhunters were also forced to become more professional because of the growing complexity of the corporate problems they were called upon to solve ; those consultants who were less sophisticated than their clients soon went out of business . |
| 20 | To be credible , it must be in a firm ‘ s best interest to carry out the threat at the time it is called upon to do so . |
| 21 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 22 | The press , as well as performing its role as the watchdog , must not be coy when it is called upon to turn the critical eye on itself . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Irrespective of the number of hours of formal teaching he is called upon to do . |
| 26 | The need for reality is satisfied in that Septimus Quinn , for all his impetuosity , does not look upon war as fun , nor does he abdicate his responsibility for the men whom , from time to time , he is called upon to lead . |
| 27 | The mark of the adjudicator is simply that he is called upon to decide what parties in dispute should have done or should do in the circumstances of a particular case . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The tenant may well benefit from this arrangement since he will have in his hands a lump sum before he is called upon to make any payment to his own landlord . |