Example sentences of "[vb -s] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canine Crisis Council ( sponsored by Hugo Summerson MP , Baroness Phillips and Lord Ross of Newport ) has called for all dogs to be muzzled in public places and for large dogs to be kept muzzled even in the privacy of their owners ' garden . |
| 2 | SHELTER has called for urgent legislation to protect people buying their homes on ‘ rental purchase ’ — a form of credit . |
| 3 | This further sign of disunity among the opposition comes just as the former president , Valery Giscard d'Estaing , who is also the leader of the UDF , has called for a fusion of the seven parties of the centre-right into ‘ one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 ’ . |
| 4 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 5 | IMRAN KHAN , the Pakistan captain , has called for an overhaul of Pakistan cricket to combat what he describes as widespread ‘ nepotism and favouritism ’ . |
| 6 | Since eggs became the focus for the food poisoning scare , the association has called for the testing of the eggs themselves to establish infection . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He has called for the removal of all foreign troops and bases in Europe . |
| 11 | The Arab ‘ troika ’ has called for restraint by all parties . |
| 12 | The Dalai Lama , who fled to exile in India after a failed uprising in 1959 , has called for Tibetan autonomy over domestic affairs , with China retaining control over military and diplomatic affairs . |
| 13 | APSYCHOLOGIST whose research suggests that almost a fifth of pupils are being bullied has called for government action to tackle the problem . |
| 14 | He has called for secret police to track down those spreading rumours of early elections , and recently warned golfers ( who include many rich Kenyans ) against anti-government talk on the fairways . |
| 15 | Kazakhstan 's president has called for Mr Gorbachev 's union treaty to be signed at once , with negotiations over the details to follow . |
| 16 | Although he insists there will be no change in France 's basic strategy , President Mitterrand has called for a national debate on defence . |
| 17 | President Ben Ali has called for austerity . |
| 18 | The Law and Order Minister has called for peace talks . |
| 19 | A quarter of the vote in the North went to the Lombard League , which has called for the establishment of an independent north Italian state unless Rome puts its house in order . |
| 20 | The Australian RSPCA has called for immediate reforms to animal protection laws after discovering 10,000 sheep had starved to death on a farm in south-western New South Wales . |
| 21 | WHILE most British eyes have been on the election of a new Westminster parliament , a 500-member pensioner 's parliament from all 12 countries of the European Community has called for better pensions throughout the EC . |
| 22 | Jim Smith , the manager whose shrewd tactical plan stifled Liverpool in last week 's 1–1 draw at Highbury , has called for a 10 per cent improvement from his players in tonight 's replay — and more of the same from the supporters . |
| 23 | Margaret Anne Doody has called for a new edition of Leapor 's poetry . |
| 24 | The Economist has called for a bill of rights as a bulwark against what Lord Hailsham once described as an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ . |
| 25 | The German Mining Union , for its part , has called for curbs on imported coal in order to increase indigenous coal sales to the electricity generating industry — some 10 million tonnes of cheaper foreign coal came into Germany in 1982 . |
| 26 | Austria , Denmark , Germany , the Netherlands and Norway have already unilaterally imposed a 1 January 1995 deadline , and the German chemical industry federation , VCI , has called for a uniform phaseout timetable to be adopted by all signatories to the Montreal Protocol , who will be meeting in Copenhagen later this year . |
| 27 | The International Federation of Societies of Cosmetic Chemists ( IFSCC ) has called for applications for the Maison G. de Navarre award by 1 June 1992 . |
| 28 | The World Health Organisation has called for individual developing countries to commit themselves to decade programmes . |
| 29 | WEST GERMANY 'S new Chancellor , Helmut Kohl , has called for the revival of scientific elites and more competition between universities in order to revive his country 's technological fortunes . |
| 30 | Certainly there is an abundance of examples in history to illustrate that failure to redress genuine grievance in its early stages has called for a very heavy price indeed later on . |