Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Congress is not scheduled to convene again before October , although an emergency session must take place if a fifth of deputies call for it . |
| 2 | Rates of out of hours calls for these age groups , as for general practitioner consultation rates in general , are higher , and relatively more calls from elderly patients result in home visits . |
| 3 | In April 1990 the ruling UDPM held a series of conferences on the issue of democracy , during which , it was reported , a number of speakers called for the introduction of a multiparty system . |
| 4 | It is with regret that we join the chorus of voices calling for the resignation of Jocelyn Stevens as chairman of Britain 's architectural and archaeological conservation body , English Heritage : any man so free of mealy-mouthed PR awareness as to tell a bothersome journalist to ‘ go and pee out of the window ’ is a true blue . |
| 5 | The downturn in business in a wide variety of sectors called for outstanding management talent in order to regenerate British industry . |
| 6 | The June 6 edition of the East Jerusalem daily Al-Fajr carried articles from a number of Palestinians calling for a re-evaluation of the intifada . |
| 7 | the increasing size and complexity of organisations calls for specialisation , both managerial and technical . |
| 8 | A large number of delegates called for the replacement of the entire central committee ( at the time consisting of 120-160 full members and 30-40 alternate members ) in a secret ballot , a move believed to have been prompted by President Chadli and his reformists in an attempt to bring in younger and more reform-minded deputies . |
| 9 | Some 200 people in possession of pamphlets calling for a multiparty political system were reported to have been arrested in recent weeks around the country ; the human rights organization Amnesty International said that many people working in companies with facsimile transmission machines capable of receiving opposition literature printed abroad were among those detained . |
| 10 | Over the five years since the 1972 Act , the list of items calling for legislation was lengthening . |
| 11 | On the international front Bill Widdis , director of systems development at the stock exchange , is wary of arguments calling for full transnational integration of share clearing systems . |
| 12 | The Government have received a number of representations calling for the reintroduction of executive detention . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , a report by the National Academy of Sciences called for changes in chemical regulations to protect children because of the possibility that they may be uniquely sensitive to pesticide residues . |
| 14 | In the Management Matrix model there is an even broader conception of the range of decisions calling for specialization and delegation . |
| 15 | The evacuation of children called for the development of special services , foreshadowing developments in child care practice after the war . |
| 16 | A value added tax ( VAT ) , replacing the general sales tax ( GST ) , was introduced on Sept. 30 , as thousands of protestors called for it to be abandoned in demonstrations throughout the country . |
| 17 | On May 13 a peaceful demonstration of students calling for the resignation of Ibrahim Babangida 's military regime degenerated into violence when police fired on the demonstrators with rubber bullets and live ammunition , killing at least seven people . |
| 18 | In the first of these categories , the impulse of schools to develop their community activities and the education of adults called for an approach which differed from the management of curriculum change . |
| 19 | Nowhere is this more obvious than in the ideological distinction between real crimes and regulatory crimes , whereby law-school curricula can be restricted to a limited number of crimes calling for proof of a mental element as a condition of conviction . |
| 20 | However what happened instead was the cat-calls and the boos and the jeers started almost as soon as this procession came came into Red Square , and there were plenty of banners calling for freedom for Lithuania , there were cries of ‘ shame , shame ’ . |
| 21 | The army was deployed against demonstrators calling for an end to one-party rule and the release of detainees . |
| 22 | The Geneva Conference on Disarmament re-opened on Jan. 22 with delegates calling for an urgent and comprehensive ban on the use of chemical weapons . |
| 23 | It expressed the hope that the concern for the implementation of UN resolutions would lead to increased pressure on Turkey to comply with resolutions calling for an end to the occupation . |
| 24 | Its initial opinions will be debated at the Scottish Liberal Democrat conference in Dunoon next weekend along with motions calling for the party to seek cross-party unity and anti-Tory election pacts . |
| 25 | Among the non- ‘ independent " homelands , unrest was particularly serious in Gazankulu during February and March , with demonstrators calling for the resignation of the homeland 's Chief Minister , Hudson Ntsanwisi . |
| 26 | There was a noisy popular march through the square with demonstrators calling for freedom for Lithuania . |
| 27 | The pro-democracy movement in Togo is essentially peaceful , with citizens calling for dialogue , justice and more open channels of communication . |
| 28 | It is possible within the law for ratepayers to call for an extraordinary audit . |
| 29 | Among witnesses called for the AFCO were Richard Doll , an epidemiologist from the University of Oxford , whose work first established the link between smoking and disease . |
| 30 | But yesterday they had to accept a report by officials calling for commercial waste collection charges which could result in bills of up to £2,000 a year for some users . |