Example sentences of "a [noun] called for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rally called for Oct. 11 by the Moslem Brotherhood and Hamas to mark the first anniversary of the killing of at least 17 Arabs at the Temple Mount in Jerusalem [ see p. 37873 ] was also banned . ) |
| 2 | A communiqué called for the speedy withdrawal of all external forces from Bosnia-Hercegovina ( i.e. including Yugoslav forces — see also pp. 38918-19 ] and appealed for the deployment of UN peacekeeping forces there to restore peace and security . |
| 3 | At the Black Sea Summit on June 25 [ see p. 38980 ] , after the first presidential negotiations on the Dnestr issue between Moldova , Russia , Ukraine and Romania , a communiqué called for an immediate ceasefire . |
| 4 | Such a role called for financial autonomy , an independent international civil service , and collaboration between world organizations . |
| 5 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 6 | disturbed you but I wo n't be on the phone long cos I er , my name is Bill and I work with a firm called for Windows . |
| 7 | In a novel called For Love Alone , described by the publishers as a sexy sizzler , she tells how a Czech woman loses her husband to a leggy honey blonde with a soft Southern drawl . |
| 8 | A spokesman called for consumers to save water by turning off taps while brushing teeth , fixing drips and leaks , collecting rainfall for garden use and to water the garden only when the weather is cool . |
| 9 | A second group of statements has the distinction that their truth-values do not depend on whether there does exist a thing called for by a contained referring expression . |
| 10 | However , minutes earlier , James Sutherland had approached a woman in the street to have an ambulance called for his friend who was inside , the High Court in Edinburgh was told . |