Example sentences of "[noun prp] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 2 | George and Marie calls for concepts and techniques from an even greater range of disciplines , especially management . |
| 3 | Introducing the collection of essays , Crisis in the Humanities , in which Steiner 's essay appeared in 1964 , J. H. Plumb calls for " less reverence for tradition and more humility towards the education systems of those two great countries — America and Russia — which have tried to adjust their teaching to the urban , industrial world of the twentieth century " . |
| 4 | Seven people were reported killed after police fired on protesters in West Bengal calling for the arrest of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh officially estimated to total 100,000 . |
| 5 | On Oct. 23 , during a demonstration in Mogadishu calling for the release of political prisoners and protesting against high food prices , two civilians and one policeman were killed and 36 civilians wounded following violent clashes between protesters and police . |
| 6 | In a separate development , the president of Sinn Fein , Gerry Adams called for the demilitarization of the province and repeated that the I R A was not prepared to arrange a unilateral cease fire . |
| 7 | In his article , McAlpine calls for an inquest into the activities of the youngsters . |
| 8 | This followed United States calls for a multilateral effort to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons development programme [ see also this page ] . |
| 9 | The influential US Senate minority leader Bob Dole calls for a cut in foreign aid to Israel . |
| 10 | Barlow confessed : ‘ Mo called for the ball and put me in two minds . |
| 11 | Only yesterday in Oxford Frank Baughan called for the youngsters who beat him and broke his wrist to be birched. frank Bishop is n't today 's only victim . |
| 12 | In the speech Shevardnadze called for the broadest possible democratisation of political and economic life , including greater autonomy for enterprises and the election of management . |
| 13 | Later , Schellenberg called for his Mercedes and they drove to the Tiergarten and walked around the lake , feet crunching in the light powdering of snow . |
| 14 | Kathleen called for help and ran to meet him . |
| 15 | This maintained a trend of conciliation begun the previous year when Iran 's Majles Speaker Rafsanjani was invited to meet King Fahd during his visit to Saudi Arabia for the annual pilgrimage and Crown Prince Abdallah called for an end to the war and the submission of the two sides to ‘ just and honest mediation ’ . |
| 16 | At the meeting federation vice-chairman Richard Coyles called for 3,000 more beat bobbies throughout the country to prevent ‘ anarchy ’ in cities . |
| 17 | On January 17th , the day after Mr Gorbachev called for the suspension of a new law designed to guarantee press freedom , Nezavisimaya Gazeta published a white space on its front page captioned : ‘ This is what Soviet newspapers will look like after political censorship is reimposed . ’ |
| 18 | While Gorbachev called for superpower collaboration to " make [ the world ] more calm and reasonable " , Bush sought to assure the Soviet Union that " the West [ sought ] no advantage from the extraordinary changes under way in the East " . |
| 19 | Gorbachev called for the preservation of " the common economic space " and increased co-operation and stability , which were essential conditions if help were to be expected from the G-7 industrialized countries . |
| 20 | Endorsing US proposals for a combined super-power shield , reportedly against attacks from " renegade " Third-World nuclear states , Gorbachev called for negotiations on " the possibility of creating joint systems to avert nuclear missile attacks with ground- and space-based elements " . |
| 21 | Portugal called for an end to Indonesia 's " illegal occupation " of its former colony . |
| 22 | Several days ago , SDLP MP Joe Hendron called for the contest to be hosted in Belfast . |
| 23 | Speaking before the meeting , West Belfast MP Dr Joe Hendron called for an increase in intelligence operations on loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 24 | In June 1971 Brezhnev called for mutual naval withdrawals by the Great Powers and he mentioned the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean specifically as regions of interest . |
| 25 | During his visit Dumas called for an acceleration in the reform programme already under way in Laos . |
| 26 | Holgate called for new research into the medical effects of air pollution . |
| 27 | Tory MP Michael Spicer called for lower rates ‘ to avoid this very grave recession turning into a slump ’ . |
| 28 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 29 | Lacking a majority in the 77-member Congress , Durán called for " national consensus " and a " political moratorium " . |
| 30 | More forcefully than Vesalius , Paracelsus called for the abandonment of galenism and its replacement by a new system of scientific knowledge and medicine based on sound empirical foundations . |