Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since all the parties to this dispute had already agreed to Article 14 of the Montreal Convention , the Security Council had no lawful authority to adopt any resolution that failed to call for the arbitration of this dispute . |
| 2 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 3 | It is this skewed nature of the existing private print media that has called for the participation of the government in the ownership and operation of the print media in this country . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman represents a party that has called for a 50 per cent . |
| 5 | But , where it 's a proposal that seems to call for persuasion , should n't we be thinking of letting the inhabitants of the city decide for themselves ? |
| 6 | The ‘ Fouchet plan ’ that ensued called for a summit every four months ; for foreign , defence and education ministers to meet regularly ; and for a special secretariat . |
| 7 | The coalition has condemned the last minute scrapping of UP and has called for the cuts to be reversed for 1993–94 . |
| 8 | He believes that , because so many of the Yanomami have been killed by disease , they do n't need such a large area and has called for a new study of their territory . |
| 9 | It rejected evidence from government witnesses that present management arrangements were working well and has called for a radical reorganization . |
| 10 | Coun Tony Richmond , leader of the Tory group on Darlington council , says litter and pollution in the river is as bad as ever and has called for swift action . |
| 11 | It was at this time that the Churches at last made common cause and risked calling for Prayer , the acceptance of Gospel values and the application of the Beatitudes to modern life . |
| 12 | They were no more than the truth , but now his mother would ring Victoria and Emma and they would ring him and it would be one question after another until he went completely mad and started calling for humming-bird sandwiches or something . |
| 13 | Deputies of the Democratic , Social Democratic and Socialist parties in the Assembly were reported on Sept. 10 to have protested at the appointment of Greek Orthodox Exarch Januallatos as Patriarch of the Albanian Autocephalic Orthodox Church , and to have called for his departure from Albania . |
| 14 | Some of the demonstrators , Tass reported , had put forward ‘ nationalist , anti-socialist slogans ’ and had called for strikes , civil disobedience and the liquidation of Soviet power in Georgia ; some ‘ extremists ’ had been armed with sticks , stones and metal objects . |
| 15 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 16 | We have told them that the suppression of opposing views is not the way forward , and have called for further progress towards democracy and greater public accountability . |
| 17 | They also accuse the government of entering into a private deal with the US company , and have called for the project to be opened to tender by local and foreign companies , with guarantees of a minimum 51 per cent stake for Czechoslovak companies . |
| 18 | They are opposed to any implicit encouragement of companies who currently import non-sustainable supplies , and have called for a boycott of leading UK " D-I-Y " stores [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 19 | If things go drastically wrong and you 're a long way from home and need to call for help the most effective way is with an orange smoke flare . |
| 20 | At that point I began to get seriously worried and wanted to call for help . ’ |
| 21 | Sir James was reported as having called for a return of capital punishment , launched an attack on the parole system , favoured the abolition of the right to silence for accused persons , referred to a black person as a ‘ nig-nog ’ , and made a remark about ‘ murderous Sikhs ’ involved in a case he was hearing at the time . |
| 22 | Union members picketed the Torbay Hotel , cutting off fuel oil supplies , and later , when the manager of the plaintiff hotel was reported as having called for a stand against the union , picketed that hotel with the same result . |