Example sentences of "[noun prp] call [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 2 | This followed United States calls for a multilateral effort to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons development programme [ see also this page ] . |
| 3 | It is what Freud called in a memorable phrase , an impoverishment of the ego on a grand scale . |
| 4 | While Singapore was enthusiastic , Malaysia remained cautious , and Indonesia called for a greater concentration on intra-ASEAN rather than external economic relations [ for Indonesian relations with ASEAN countries see p. 37580 ] . |
| 5 | Rather than addressing individual anomalies by directives , ICAS called for a conceptual framework and a single model tax treaty , to be signed by all EC members , which would in itself result in harmonised treatment of cross-border transactions . |
| 6 | Last night , Cockerill called for a long suspension should Wright be found guilty . |
| 7 | Later on in the meeting , Council member David Lindsay called for a full report on Training Outside Public Practice , following his discovery that 62 of the 77 students currently training under TOPP are employed by the National Audit Office . |
| 8 | Professor Heiz called for a six-month period of study to be devoted to the Corbie site before work proceeds on the school . |
| 9 | A group representing families of the British victims marked the anniversary by handing in a petition to 10 Downing Street calling for a public inquiry . |
| 10 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 11 | The bill had faced a stormy second reading on Feb. 15 , with Kharkov deputy Leonid Suchov calling for a national referendum on the issue , since he believed the law " betrayed the essence of the state " . |
| 12 | Colombian President Virgilio Barco Vargas called for a powerful UN agency to direct the global struggle against drug abuse . |
| 13 | Pale , Bosnia : BOSNIAN Serbs called for a new peace plan for Bosnia after declaring the current one dead yesterday but Muslim-led government leaders said this meant the West no longer had any excuse to avoid decisive action . |
| 14 | The UN Security Council , convened at the request of France on Sept. 25 , adopted Resolution 713 sponsored by Belgium , France and the UK calling for a complete arms embargo on Yugoslavia and the immediate cessation of hostilities and requesting the Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , to assist with mediation . |
| 15 | The TUC called for a one year moratorium whilst its future was reviewed . |
| 16 | Shadow home secretary Tony Blair called for a national strategy to tackle the growing problem . |
| 17 | In The Rites of Man ( Paladin £6.99 ) , Rosalind Miles calls for a new masculinity for the millennium . |
| 18 | On Feb. 21 Mazowiecki called for a Polish-German treaty guaranteeing the post 1945 Oder-Neisse border , to be negotiated between Poland and both German states . |
| 19 | On Nov. 26 , under pressure from Republicans to boost recovery by cutting capital gains tax , Bush called for a special congressional session in December to enact a $23,000,000 tax package proposed by Republican Newt Gingrich ( Georgia ) . |
| 20 | Indeed , Mr Kinnock called for a modest celebration at Labour 's recovery : it was an encouragement , an inspiration to see the party working together once more , he said . |
| 21 | Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors spokesman Peter Miller called for a further one per cent reduction on the stroke of midnight on New Year 's Eve . |
| 22 | President Alan Gacia of Peru called for a planned summit on February 15 with President Bush to discuss drugs to be ‘ deferred ’ because of the invasion . |
| 23 | There is just enough décor and furniture to prevent it from looking empty , but space and simplicity are the most powerful impressions made on the visitor — what Leonard called in a different context ‘ the voluptuousness of austerity . ’ |
| 24 | Members of Halton Friends of the Earth have been urging people in Runcorn to call for a public inquiry into ICI 's plan for an incinerator there . |
| 25 | As a consequence , petitions flowed in to the National Assembly from all the local councils in France calling for a constitutional revision , but the majority in the Assembly rejected the appeals . |
| 26 | A group of lawyers from Britain and Europe called for a judicial inquiry into allegations of collusion between loyalist paramilitaries and the security forces in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 28 | The traffic had thinned considerably by now , and most of the twenty minutes of the journey were taken up by Carson calling at a late-opening delicatessen on the way . |
| 29 | Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama called for a tougher line , including an arms embargo , against the junta which has held the democracy campaigner under house arrest since July 1989 . |
| 30 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |