Example sentences of "the [noun] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince calls for everyone to realise that it is time to take adequate stock of such landscapes , our collective effect upon it and our responsibilities towards it . |
| 2 | Campaigners living near the base called for all flights to be suspended pending an investigation but a spokesman said operations would continue as normal . |
| 3 | The board calls for reforms by the US coast guard , Ocean Drilling and Exploration Company , owner of the rig , and Mobil Oil of Canada , for whom the Ocean Ranger was drilling . |
| 4 | The FPR called for the overthrow of the regime and the return of all Rwandan refugees ( mostly Tutsi who had been forced to flee to neighbouring countries after ethnic clashes with the dominant Hutu over the previous 30 years ) . |
| 5 | If the case calls for a Ghosh instruction , the judge should give the direction in Ghosh word for word : Ravenshad [ 1990 ] Crim LR 398 . |
| 6 | One section of the women backed the men ; another formed a separate union for a short while and tried to resist the ban called for in the men 's memorial . |
| 7 | The contract calls for systems and software integration , project management services , communications infrastructure and secure Unix systems . |
| 8 | In Jones ( M ) v Jones ( R R ) [ 1971 ] 1 WLR 840 , a company 's factory premises and shops were valued on a break-up basis when the contract called for valuation on a going concern basis . |
| 9 | The plans call for that and other paths to be diverted . |
| 10 | Given that the decision calls for considered judgment , it must always be appropriate to consider the matter in the case of each patient before it arises . |
| 11 | While recognising the ultimate necessity of making a stand against German threats to British interests , The Times called for " a supreme effort … to do what is possible for appeasement before that point is reached " . |
| 12 | As for why , this interrogative adverb evokes the reasons calling for an action and , like how , leaves their precise nature undefined . |
| 13 | Rather , the recession called for candidates who were above all young , sharp , bright and who had the necessary track record of success to turn businesses around . |
| 14 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 15 | The story calls for two dogs . |
| 16 | The PC called for the formation of a broad resistance to the " recommunization government of Waldemar Pawlak " . |
| 17 | Politicians across the spectrum called for a change in the legal process to avoid a repeat of the suspension . |
| 18 | The budget called for $299,700 million for social security , $224,700 million for a variety of discretionary domestic spending programmes and $126,500 million for Medicare . |
| 19 | The part called for a clean-cut , conventional actor . ’ |
| 20 | The association called for the standard of advice offered to be monitored by the industry watchdogs . |
| 21 | One of the GIs called for a pen from his friend , caught it deftly in the air and planted his huge boot on the handlebar of Tony 's tricycle to write the address . |
| 22 | Dixon , who campaigned upon the promise to " clean City Hall out not with a broom , but a shovel " , had been the first of the candidates to call for Barry 's resignation . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He has always had the support of Motherwell North SNP despite one of the branches calling for his resignation . ’ |
| 25 | On 26 October the Chronicle called for a National Guard which would unite " the most respectable and efficient of the middle and labouring classes " . |
| 26 | ‘ Though that is true only up to a point — last year after the dog fox was killed on the road the vixen called for three nights , the saddest sound I ever heard . ’ |
| 27 | The storyline called for some expensive-sounding sequences , not the least being the burning of Rome , a galley ship foundering , and establishing shots of the Imperial capital . |
| 28 | Amnesty 's research reveals that Mr Nezameddin was detained for signing a letter to the President calling for constitutional guarantees , freedom and justice . |
| 29 | Thus , to battle with the obstinate problem of unemployment , the President called for renewed spending on public works , and in 1935 a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) was set up under Harry Hopkins . |
| 30 | Significantly , the ruling came only two days before tens of thousands of people took part in a march from Moscow 's Gorky Park to Manezh Square outside the Kremlin to call for the resignation of Prime Minister Ryzhkov and his government . |