Example sentences of "call for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The initial public response to the outbreak of war was an upsurge of patriotic fervour , at any rate among the middle and upper classes : the Kadet leadership in the Duma called for a political truce and national unity against the common enemy . |
| 2 | The local parliament in Sevastopol called for a political settlement and said the row strengthened its resolve to seek complete autonomy for Crimea . |
| 3 | Tens of thousands demonstrated last night in the Romanian capital after reports of at least 20 deaths there earlier in the day , and students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike today . |
| 4 | On 4th , May 1926 , the Trades Union Council called for a General Strike in support or striking coal miners . |
| 5 | On the same day its leader Raúl Ubalbini addressed a rally of an estimated 30,000 workers in Buenos Aires and called for a general strike on Nov. 15 . |
| 6 | In mid-1989 , the Fiji Trade Union Council , derecognised by the government in 1986 because of its links with the Labour Party [ see p. 35251 ] , called for a general strike to force the government to lift the freeze on wages and revive the defunct wage guideline forum comprising the Fiji Trades Union Congress , the government and the employers ' association . |
| 7 | On Jan. 4 miners ' leaders had called for a temporary halt to the march , after an offer by Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut to hold talks , but two days later the march was resumed after union leaders had rejected a government offer of a 250 per cent pay rise . |
| 8 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 9 | The report called for a major debate each year on this White Paper and recommended the creation of a new public Expenditure Select Committee to take the place of the former Estimates Committee . |
| 10 | The Green Party — which put up candidates in 250 of 651 constituencies — called for a major shift from income taxes to " green " taxes aimed at reducing the use of raw materials and non-renewable energy sources . |
| 11 | At the end of May , , the minister for small companies , called for a greater sense of risk and enterprise in any new market which might succeed the USM and , in emphasising the importance to the country 's economy of smaller-company activity , pointed out that companies with fewer than 20 employees had helped to create 350,000 new jobs between 1989 and 1991 . |
| 12 | Vice-President of the London Tourist Board ( LTB ) , Lord Pitt of Hampstead , has called for a London-wide authority to plan and co-ordinate development in the capital . |
| 13 | Sebastian Arcos Bergnes , vice-president of an unofficial human rights group , was brought to trial in early October for ‘ enemy propaganda ’ ; the prosecution has called for a six year sentence . |
| 14 | In effect , a ‘ conspiracy of silence ’ still surrounds those northern Protestants who at various times and in their different ways condemned the landlord system , called for a wider franchise , disapproved of religious bigotry , or even sought to break the connection with Britain . |
| 15 | ( S. ) 71 , this called for a delicate balancing exercise between the possibility that the offender might commit further crimes in this country and the harm that might be done to innocent people if he were deported . |
| 16 | June , the American secretary of State , George Marshall , called for a European recovery programme , to be supported by aid from the United States . |
| 17 | It was revealed that Prokofiev had called for a central committee plenum to be held on Aug. 20 to remove Gorbachev as general secretary . |
| 18 | The competition called for a first chapter of 2000 words to include a couple of phrases along the lines of ‘ the scent of freshly washed hair++ ’ |
| 19 | In defiance of a decision by the national conference in September to dissolve the National Assembly , President Mobutu Sese Seko called for a new session of the Assembly to open on Oct. 5 . |
| 20 | First division sides receive around £13,500 Courage assistance , but Sudbury and Askeans have successfully called for a new look at the way the money is divided . |
| 21 | Informix Software Inc 's UK managing director , Malcolm Padina , has called for a new initiative to purge the Unix market from software pirates : Padina , a board member of the Federation Against Software Theft aims to establish a Federation subcommittee to address the problem . |
| 22 | The 1990 edition of the World Bank 's World Development Report , published on July 16 , called for a new initiative aimed at " lifting 400 million people out of poverty by the year 2000 " . |
| 23 | Margaret Anne Doody has called for a new edition of Leapor 's poetry . |
| 24 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 27 | A SCOTTISH fishing boss has called for a Europe-wide boycott of cheap fish to stop non-EC states destroying the fishing industry . |
| 28 | But English Heritage has called for a thorough feasibility study before the third application is determined . |
| 29 | Many organisations including the Town and Country Planning Association , Council for the Protection of Rural England , Royal Town Planning Institute , and the South East Economic Development Strategy have called for a comprehensive planning and transport strategy for the South East , arguing that this is essential both to protect the region from the adverse effects of the Tunnel and to maximise its benefits . |
| 30 | * The Russian government has called for a comprehensive moratorium on weapons testing by all nuclear states . |