Example sentences of "his [noun] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | His enemies called for peace but he brought them death . |
| 2 | Geoffrey Palmer , Prime Minister of New Zealand , promptly announced his intention to call for a global ban on drift-netting during his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in October . |
| 3 | Probably an amalgam of two mass-circulation papers The New York Herald and The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer ( edited by James Gordon Bennett and Colonel Watson Webb respectively ) : both papers attacked CD in the most scurrilous fashion after his speeches calling for an International Copyright Agreement . |
| 4 | His proposal called for a total of $7,900 million to be spent on increased law enforcement , more prisons , border patrols , education programmes , treatment programmes , and aid to foreign countries . |
| 5 | ‘ True , she is his partner , she helps him , and when his body calls for lust , she is there for him , but I would not say she is a prime concern in his life . ’ |
| 6 | Or perhaps he was quite mistaken , and what his nature called for was both . |
| 7 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 8 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 9 | Mr Murray set about to counteract any ill feeling towards government radio policies by arranging a nation-wide tour of all ‘ trouble spots ’ , and his schedule called for a visit to Moose Jaw during the second week of February , 1936 . |
| 10 | The conference supported his motion calling for regional and district councils to be retained in the Highlands . |
| 11 | Every day the diary had to be filled ; an important day-to-day record of garden affairs was imperative for his writing and current Work for his publishers called for continued attention , because throughout his long life editions of the Dictionary and the Abridgement needed revision and extension . |
| 12 | Wei had already become well-known for his outspokenness and his document calling for the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ was circulated widely . |
| 13 | His regime calls for great personal reverence for himself , as Life President and elder and brooks no serious dissent on grounds of personality or policy . |