Example sentences of "[noun sg] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the Georgian delegation called for a return to military positions occupied prior to Oct. 1 , the Abkhazians insisted on a complete withdrawal of Georgian troops from their territory . |
| 2 | On 26 October the Chronicle called for a National Guard which would unite " the most respectable and efficient of the middle and labouring classes " . |
| 3 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |
| 4 | He got together with Clyde Walcott , a happy refereeing choice for three Tests in England this summer between England and Pakistan , and they ruled that the rule called for 90 overs to be bowled every day , and the allowance for wickets would only be taken into account for fining purposes when each side 's overall rate was calculated at the end of the game . |
| 5 | UNEP review calls for tighter Montreal Protocol |
| 6 | Although the Minister 's Department has refused to countenance such a review in the past , I beg him to think again and announce today that the Government will undertake the urgent review called for by the NACAB and many hon. Members . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | National legal administration called for regional delegation . |
| 9 | Disarmament negotiations opened in 1983 in Geneva , and the Reagan Administration called for the withdrawal from Eastern Europe of the new range of Soviet SS20 missiles — the so-called " zero option " . |
| 10 | In addition , the administration called for changes in court rules to permit the use of illegally seized evidence , provided that the police had acted " in good faith " in seizing it . |
| 11 | The public security bureau provided the immediate action called for by the students . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The national radio , Voix du Zaïre , reported that in Kinshasa on April 10 a peaceful student demonstration calling for a national conference had been dispersed by troops using tear gas . |
| 14 | One view is that insider research calls for the free-ranging exploration of what goes on in the classroom without the constraint of any preconceived theory . |
| 15 | The point I am making is that pedagogic research calls for the independent appraisal of ideas as a precondition to their application . |
| 16 | The simple , broad-based figure calls for no supports or struts to betray a bronze original ; but the treatment of face and forehead-hair is so like that on two male figures , one a bronze original , the other known in many marble copies certainly after a bronze , that one can be pretty confident that that was the material here too . |
| 17 | A CELEBRATION of Mass or a service of the Word ? — the choice will sometimes present itself when our speaker 's witness calls for time and flexibility for a worthwhile presentation . |
| 18 | In simplified terms , this guidance calls for the following parameters : . |
| 19 | The Sheikha called for coffee and some sweet to be brought . |
| 20 | With the development of strong , authoritarian , state-like bodies , human control over arid and semi-arid areas was extended through irrigation works , whose construction and maintenance called for an organization which Wittfogel ( 1957 , p.136 ) characterized as ‘ benevolent in form and oppressive in content . ’ |
| 21 | Policy in the northern agency during the research called for compliance in about 70 percent of routine samples ; with the review of consents , the agency has become seemingly less tolerant , calling for compliance in 95 percent of samples . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A short time later , when it was almost time to board the coach , the Institute 's president called for silence . |
| 24 | Besides , the script called for me to look beat-up and dishevelled . |
| 25 | Anthony Marriott and Alistair Foot 's script called for the clerk to be a ‘ heavy ’ type , but Crawford was successful in changing the underling to a meek , nervous sort . |
| 26 | The script called for a pistol shot , the thump of Williams falling to the ground and Paddick left with the last line . |
| 27 | When , at its first meeting in 1831 , the British Association called for a report on the state of mathematics it elicited only three sections , on algebra , trigonometry and the arithmetic of sines , which almost completely ignored the major developments of the previous century and a half . |
| 28 | Rebel supporters from the Barnet Supporters ' Association called for a boycott of all matches . |
| 29 | Rebel supporters from the Barnet Supporters ' Association called for a boycott of all matches . |
| 30 | We have not dealt with the reasons why The Head Teachers ' Association called for the teaching of modern foreign languages in primary schools . |