Example sentences of "be call [prep] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opinion polls have been taken by Le Figaro and L'Evenement du Jeudi , with wildly differing results , readers have been encouraged to write and religious leaders of all shades have been called upon to give the benefit of their wisdom . |
| 2 | He has frequently been called upon to give expert evidence in firearms cases . |
| 3 | Ironically , Carol Wilson had not , after all , been called upon to give testimony . |
| 4 | THE man who masterminded Glasgow city 's transformation to a major European centre of culture has been called upon to use his Midas touch in Londonderry . |
| 5 | Many of them by now had been in Malta for several months … and ever since Italy had entered into the war , these boys , often in obsolete aircraft , had carried out bravely and unquestioning , any task that they had been called upon to perform . |
| 6 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 7 | Since 1988 , the UN has been called upon to mount 13 peace-keeping operations , as many as in the entire 23 years up to 1987 . |
| 8 | He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise . |
| 9 | The predictable result of this has been a plethora of cases in which the courts have been called upon to rule in what circumstances an assault may be described as sexual . |
| 10 | Her men had not been called upon to go ; she knew no-one who was in the army , or who flew the Tornado jets . |
| 11 | For many centuries a ‘ god ’ in some form or other has been called upon to heal the sick when doctors and others , using all knowledge , power and skill available to them have failed . |
| 12 | I have , in my capacity as Senior Anatomical Pathology Technician , been called upon to collect and look at bones discovered in various places , i.e. sealed behind walls , found in shallow graves , fields , etc. and so it was that a few years ago I became very interested in some questions of osteology . |
| 13 | The sea-story , as I have suggested , demands less falsifying of youth 's capacities since , in both navy and merchant navy ships , boys in their middle and even early teens have been called upon to act beyond their years often and as a matter of course , from the period , so fruitful for novelists , of the Napoleonic Wars to the present day as Richard Armstrong described it . |
| 14 | The pope should have been called upon to act as arbiter in the dispute , as he alone has regal and sacerdotal powers . |
| 15 | It was n't er , it was n't good to leave them about , you know what I mean and er oh er yes it 's been very important , if I might say so , certain things as I 've had been called upon to do and I 've been happy and proud to do it . |
| 16 | In these matters Emilia Frere knew more than she , for the woman had crossed the threshold of the married state ; she had delivered herself over to the meeting of the flesh as Louisa had not been called upon to do ; she had experienced what the uninitiate could only surmise . |
| 17 | The state was by no means a constituent part of the productive relations , which economic theory has been called upon to study . |
| 18 | Because liability for losses is unlimited , ‘ Names ’ have recently been called upon to produce sums on a large and recurring basis . |
| 19 | I had been called upon to show my newly strengthened Christian faith before the whole congregation of the First Spiritualist Church . |
| 20 | He 's been called upon to help his hometown of Ross on Wye beat the effects of the recession . |
| 21 | Learning to read involves no learning ability that children have not already been called upon to exercise in order to understand the language spoken at home … and from Goodman ( 1972 ) : |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Secondly , engineering inspectors of AIB had been called upon to provide the engineering input to RAF boards of inquiry concerning accidents to military aircraft ever since the Branch was part of the old Air Ministry and consequently their expertise in jet aircraft investigating techniques was already at a high pitch before the first civil jet airliners entered service . |
| 24 | The trial judge himself admitted , before passing sentence , that ‘ all involved in this case have been called upon to endure more than anyone should be required to cope with ’ . |
| 25 | Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest . |
| 26 | Courts , if they had been called upon to investigate people 's employment protection rights , might well have deemed some of them to have had one continuous employment relationship broken only by shortages of work rather than a series of different relationships . |
| 27 | Once again our chairman , Mr Ken Mentle , has been called upon to bale us out but , unlike the current state of our penalty area , his wallet is not a bottomless pit . |
| 28 | The deceased was over ninety ; so Lydia and Betty had not been called upon to express great regret or commiseration among the villagers . |
| 29 | I PLEDGE a complete confidential relationship to those I am called upon to serve . |
| 30 | … a sense of proportion is all important on the part of those who are called upon to judge . |