Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the leader of the Wehrmacht unit at the end of his speech for the remembrance called for a ‘ Sieg Heil ’ for the Führer , it was returned neither by the Wehrmacht present , nor by the Volkssturm , nor by the spectators of the civilian population who had turned up . |
| 2 | Policy in the northern agency during the research called for compliance in about 70 percent of routine samples ; with the review of consents , the agency has become seemingly less tolerant , calling for compliance in 95 percent of samples . |
| 3 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 4 | The case was adjourned until January 28th after the Judge called for a full explanation of the social services delay . |
| 5 | If your technique is delivered after the referee called for a halt , then as well as not scoring you may also pick up a penalty . |
| 6 | Police moved on the protestors who gathered in the car park after the game calling for Gray to be sacked . |
| 7 | A communiqué issued after the meeting called for " stability-oriented " monetary policies and noted that the Gulf crisis posed " a risk of inflation and a risk of lower economic growth " . |
| 8 | A political statement released by the PNC at the end of the session called for an international conference on the Middle East , under UN supervision , to be convened on the basis of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 ( 1967 — see pp. 22473 ; 25029 ; 34898 ) and 338 ( 1973 — see p. 26197 ) , and the guaranteeing of the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people , of which the most important was " the right to self-determination " . |
| 9 | On Friday 22 March , John Carroll of the ITGWU called for a sworn public inquiry into the possible health hazards of the Raybestos factory , though also saying Raybestos must be allowed to go ahead . |
| 10 | Appalled by mounting losses , the Fabius government of the day called for a change of course : ministers were to keep hands off state industries were not to be cushions against unemployment , and profit would be the test of performance . |
| 11 | It is supported by the Keep Sunday Special campaign but falls far short of the deregulation called for by many large stores currently opening on Sundays in breach of existing laws . |
| 12 | The relation between an obligation concretized in the form of presence on a list and the realization of the action called for by this presence is obviously one of subsequence , whence the use of the to infinitive . |
| 13 | This has been a curiously old fashioned debate in some ways with one hou side of the house calling for more regulation and the other side of the house calling for less regulation and my honourable mem , my honourable friend the member for South Hamms er did say eloquently again this evening . |
| 14 | This has been a curiously old fashioned debate in some ways with one hou side of the house calling for more regulation and the other side of the house calling for less regulation and my honourable mem , my honourable friend the member for South Hamms er did say eloquently again this evening . |
| 15 | The rather odd character of the formula called for considerable ingenuity in the enterprise . |
| 16 | The economist 's view is : others will see that the logic of the situation calls for cheating , so you had better cheat , too . |
| 17 | They unanimously agreed that the scale and gravity of the situation calls for new and innovating policies . |
| 18 | She wept and spoke at the same time — uttering fragments of sentences , half completed threats , pieces of swear words , repeating the name Richard over and over with the intonation of a child calling for its mother . |
| 19 | ON APRIL 26 , Qin Benli , the editor of the Shanghai-based Shijie Jingjie Dao Bao ( World Economic Herald ) was sacked for publishing notes of a forum calling for the rehabilitation of Hu Yaobang , the former disgraced Communist Party 's general secretary who died in April this year , and expressing support for the student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square . |
| 20 | The executive is recommending rejection of a motion calling for unilateral disarmament . |
| 21 | The only concession allowed by the party leadership was the acceptance of an amendment calling for the development of emergency procedures for greater consultation between the MPs and the national executive committee after complaints that its members had no knowledge of the deal with the Government until the Commons vote had taken place . |
| 22 | Campaigners living near the base called for all flights to be suspended pending an investigation but a spokesman said operations would continue as normal . |
| 23 | A hardline motion calling for black sections is almost certain to be thrown out on Friday and the party could be left without a policy as support for a proposition calling for societies with exclusively black members is also in doubt . |
| 24 | PARENTS at one of Scotland 's largest state schools are collecting names for a petition to call for an opt-out ballot . |
| 25 | In spite of an overwhelming vote in the European Parliament last week for a report calling for all Euro seats to be elected by PR , the Government remains opposed to changing the traditional first-past-the-post system . |
| 26 | Collins wants to push through a motion calling for lead levels in petrol to be reduced to 0–15 grams per litre ( the level Britain intends to impose by 1985 ) . |
| 27 | The agreement , which would supersede a two-year virtual wage freeze [ see p. 36241 ] , was in line with the ceiling called for by the government as part of its economic programme . |
| 28 | They waited for the space of one Hail Mary , then ran out into the yard to call for Victorine . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Anand made the announcement after student leaders had presented him with a petition calling for the lifting of martial law . |