Example sentences of "[adv] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their inspectors merely called for visual inspections and dye penetrant checks , as opposed to the ultrasonic testing called for in the UK . |
| 2 | The bills had merely called for further federal studies : control was considered a state and local concern . |
| 3 | Whether we have in mind the student teacher , or the art student in the studio , or the student nurse , practical experience necessarily calls for a degree of personal involvement by the student and to that extent it is desirable . |
| 4 | It can be interpreted more narrowly as merely calling for an incidental adjustment in the form of an annotation of the present birth register . |
| 5 | He had constantly called for reductions in the burdens of taxation on both corporations and individuals and regularly denounced the federal government for being too big , too meddlesome and too wasteful of the taxpayers ' money . |
| 6 | Employers , however , have welcomed the 1.5% pay curb , which they have long called for . |
| 7 | Teachers have long called for more opportunity to get on with what they regard as quintessentially " their " work ; they should normally welcome the opportunity to off-load tasks which can just as effectively be performed by other people . |
| 8 | The dangers of too close inspection are obvious , and Long Kin West especially calls for caution : this hole descends vertically for over 500 feet from a rock bridge across its top carrying a track from Cold Cotes on the old road . |
| 9 | Landlords not only were assessed on their directly occupied land but were constantly calling for relief for tenants , for whom increasing poor rates were setting a ceiling for rents . |
| 10 | The defence minister , General Jose Garcia Samayoa , suddenly called for a return to constitutional rule . |
| 11 | This is why this account will follow Guillaume ( 1990 : 99 ) in postulating that the support of the infinitive is a " generalized person " not yet defined explicitly as either first , second or third , nor even necessarily calling for ordinal definition ( cf. ( 10 ) above ) . |
| 12 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 13 | He also devoted a good deal of his investigations to the extraordinary satin bower-bird , a native of the area and so called for its remarkable habit of building and decorating a sort of stage-set , in which it would perform ritual mating dances . |
| 14 | The more serious charge of " co-authorship of genocide " had been substituted at the request of the prosecution on Feb. 1 on the strength of evidence which had emerged during the trial , notably an eyewitness account of Dinca personally calling for troops to be ordered to shoot demonstrators in Bucharest on Dec. 22 . |
| 15 | His assembled staff stared stonily back , as he looked round at them , apparently calling for some kind of congratulations . |
| 16 | Something simpler is obviously called for , and Floorplan Plus is an attempt to provide the layman with the tools he needs to make a convincing stab at planning out a house , extension or furniture arrangement . |
| 17 | Being a Twenty-fourther obviously called for high physical stamina , for the group showed no signs of slacking . |
| 18 | Work that not only calls for construction skills but also presents opportunities for BICC to supply power , telecommunications and control cable systems — another major part of our worldwide business operation . |
| 19 | The students came from different races in Burma — a few Burmans , more Karens , a Chin or two , a Kachin and several Anglo-Burmans and one Indian ; so living , learning and worshipping together called for and indeed produced a spirit of racial understanding and unity . |
| 20 | The melodic line must stand out with the greatest power and clarity in our arrangement , and obviously calls for a great sweep of strings . |
| 21 | Louis Blom-Cooper , QC in the Listener , Bernard Levin in the Observer , Leo Abse , MP in the Spectator all called for an immediate inquiry , while Julian Symons in the Sunday Times , C. H. Rolph in the Times Literary Supplement , Mervyn Jones in the New Statesman all declared categorically that Meehan was innocent and should be granted a free pardon under the Royal Prerogative of Mercy . |
| 22 | You , Prime Minister Calfa and Labour Minister Miller have all called for a type of social contract in this transition period . |
| 23 | Rev. Cahal Daly , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor , all called for an independent public inquiry into the killings , but Brooke declared that he had every confidence in the investigation being undertaken by the Royal Ulster Constabulary . |
| 24 | It does not necessarily call for an ethical content , so facts are often distorted or falsified for self-interest . |
| 25 | It only called for eight at the most . |
| 26 | The real value of a key deposited with a neighbour comes when you are ill or incapacitated and can only call for help or reach the phone , but not reach the front door . |
| 27 | Such a reformulation would not only call for a reassessment of traditional notions and practices — balance , impartiality , objectivity , ownership , editorial sovereignty — but would also require the media to improve upon their present performances in explaining events in the world . |
| 28 | Some forty years later , the town had grown big enough to call for a church of its own , instead of attending the mother church of Great Bowden . |
| 29 | In your May 1 editorial , you rightly call for great care not to erect ‘ an elaborate bureaucracy ’ in investing persons or courts with powers to give consent for medical treatment in individual cases . |
| 30 | ‘ Not much call for these outside of Christmas , my love , ’ the grocer told me , dusting the boxes and rounding the outrageous total down to the nearest pound . |