Example sentences of "the [noun sg] appealed for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the films made at the beginning of the war appealed for people to forget selfish desires and apply themselves to the common good , to put aside class divisions in order to confront an enemy that threatened everyone equally , the Gainsborough films addressed themselves to the frustrations and the pain that came after continuous self-sacrifice . |
| 2 | The commission appealed for 200,000 tons of food immediately and said that , if if there were any delay , many thousands more people would die . |
| 3 | On the Middle East , the summit appealed for progress towards a settlement of the Arab-Israel conflict and deplored the lack of respect for human rights in the Israeli-occupied territories . |
| 4 | The government appealed for $273,000,000 in external aid at the launch of its emergency relief programme for 1989/90 at a meeting with international donors in Luanda on Sept. 21-22 , 1989 . |
| 5 | Brockway , Dutt , Gallacher , Jowett , Maxton and Pollitt for the Communists and the ILP appealed for support for the new committee . |
| 6 | Until the beginning of NEP they constituted a disparate group of individuals to whom the party appealed for letters on local affairs , but in 1922 they acquired their official title and were subject to much more pressure from the centre . |