Example sentences of "[was/were] call for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The students were calling for the restoration of school buildings damaged during the 1976 earthquake in Guatemala and a subsequent tremor in May 1988 . |
| 2 | The demonstrators were calling for the resumption of the National Conference , suspended by the government in January , which had been set up by more than 130 political parties to review and undertake reform on Zaire 's one-party political system . |
| 3 | He said staunch Tory newspapers were calling for the resignation of Chancellor Norman Lamont — to follow that of David Mellor . |
| 4 | It is hardly surprising that health authorities and hospital managers were calling for the immediate introduction of capitation funding for fundholders as a means of stemming losses from their budgets . |
| 5 | Reports claimed that demonstrators in the south were calling for the establishment of an Islamic government in Iraq headed by Hakim . |
| 6 | They were calling for the right to hold free festivals and raves like the week long event at Castlemorton Common at the end of May . |
| 7 | At the review , Panel Members who knew the children from the previous case were called for the Hearing . |
| 8 | The New Zealand openers , veteran John Wright and debutant Blair Hartland , who was appearing on his home ground , were glad to face just 14 balls before a halt was called for the day . |
| 9 | An extraordinary congress of the ruling party , the communist Partido Africano da Indepêndencia de Cabo Verde ( PAICV ) , was called for the latter part of 1990 , after the introduction of a multiparty system had been agreed in principle by the national council — the party 's policy-making body between congresses . |
| 10 | The exiled Leon Trotsky was calling for the overthrow of Stalin , then engaged in his most murderous of purges . |
| 11 | In the office beyond the grille , Mr Saleb was calling for the book . |
| 12 | A curfew was imposed in Cabinda on Nov. 12 after at least nine deaths in clashes between government forces and supporters of the Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave ( FLEC ) , which was calling for the independence of the region . |
| 13 | The Party had supported Labour candidates and was calling for the return of a Labour Government . |
| 14 | Minutes later Ross was calling for the manageress of the designer-wear department — and imperiously stating his requirements . |
| 15 | In Britain , by the 1890s the TUC was calling for the nationalization of the ‘ whole of the means of production , distribution and exchange ’ ( Weiner 1960 : 4 ) . |
| 16 | So Ann Richards 's first act as governor was to call for the adoption of an emergency ethics law ‘ with some teeth in it . ’ |