Example sentences of "call for " in BNC.
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| 31 | In East Berlin , the well-known opposition figure , Pastor Rainer Eppelmann , said the talks set an example for the whole country , and called for a two-week period of calm on the streets . |
| 32 | Conference speakers repeatedly called for no let-up against the unions . |
| 33 | ‘ Together we want to shape our fatherland in such a way that the growing material and cultural needs of each person can better be met , according to his contribution , ’ it said , and called for suggestions from the public . |
| 34 | They welcomed last month 's initiative by Mr Bush and called for a summit with him within 90 days . |
| 35 | Since eggs became the focus for the food poisoning scare , the association has called for the testing of the eggs themselves to establish infection . |
| 36 | I held on to her and called for help . ’ |
| 37 | Mr Escobar , in a letter to La Prensa , called for ‘ direct dialogue to search for peace ’ , with participation by government , opposition , judicial , church and journalism representatives . |
| 38 | JERUSALEM ( Reuter ) — Britain 's senior diplomat in the Israeli-occupied territories called for an inquiry into the killing by troops of an Arab youth . |
| 39 | Several members of the European Parliament , including Mr Cot , had called for the pair to be suspended for five days with financial penalties . |
| 40 | He named the food supply crisis as the most important question of all , and called for a great ‘ crusade , against speculators and the ‘ kulak' , that recurring bogeyman of the regime until 1928 . |
| 41 | Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference . |
| 42 | Sir John Hoskyns , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's Policy Unit , has called for a radical reform of the government system if the effort to transform the economy is to succeed . |
| 43 | Hailsham , in an article in the Daily Express , of 3 September , called for an election , to be fought on party lines , with the aim of securing a Conservative majority for protection , The government , Hailsham said , should hurry up to complete the purpose for which it was formed , namely the balancing of the budget , and then go to the country on party lines . |
| 44 | The figures in Table 4 show how many of these responsibilities were eventually reduced , prior to the Korean War , but much more slowly than Keynes and others called for . |
| 45 | An emergency meeting has been called for clubs leasing stretches of the Macclesfield Canal in a bid to find a solution to an increasing mink problem . |
| 46 | An easy day was called for , using the new car — what luxury ! — to visit the northern hemisphere 's largest great skua colony . |
| 47 | On 23 June , Roy Grantham , General Secretary of APEX , called for a limit of 500 on the number of pickets , and on 24 June , the TUC issued the following statement : |
| 48 | Like Shawell school , St Peter 's was built in the 1860s and so preceded the Elementary Education Act of 1870 that called for large numbers of schools , mainly in crowded urban areas , to be built with public rather than private money . |
| 49 | The National Rivers Authority in Wales has called for a ban on conifer plantations in sensitive areas , but Nicholas Luard and the Bara Ceirch group feel they need to act more quickly to save the river . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | The report , compiled by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers ( IEHO ) , slammed poor safety procedures and the lack of supervision and rescue equipment , and called for tougher legislation to tackle the problem . |
| 52 | Building Energy Management ( BEM ) systems can now operate the CHP generation plant automatically , ramping its output up and down as reflected by the power load called for by the BEM 's control of the building . |
| 53 | It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news . |
| 54 | Doctor Staples had examined her carefully , then called for cannula and trocar and performer the aspiration that she had been assured would never again be necessary . |
| 55 | Winter had been a huddle of darkness and hoPe , but now spring laid its probing finger on the hidden dust and called for recognition and ruthless change . |
| 56 | The vote came five years after the synod called for draft legislation to introduce women priests . |
| 57 | However the Occupational Pensions Board called for a pensions tribunal and Tony Thurham , chairman of the Association of Pensions Lawyers , said : ‘ Many pensions lawyers would have preferred a tribunal since it would probably have had greater powers and more staff . |
| 58 | Groups demanding an autonomous Sikh state have already called for a boycott of the elections . |
| 59 | The Hindu rightwing Bharatiya Janata party yesterday condemned the massacre and called for a strike in Patiala today in protest against what a party spokesman in New Delhi described as ‘ criminal neglect by the administration to protect innocent people ’ . |
| 60 | He has called for the removal of all foreign troops and bases in Europe . |