Example sentences of "[been] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day . |
| 2 | Over here , there have been calls for the Guardian Angels to set up a chapter of Pink Angels . |
| 3 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 4 | There have been calls for legislation to give suppliers an automatic right to claim interest on overdue payments and for debt collecting procedures in the courts to be simplified . |
| 5 | There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored . |
| 6 | As already noted there have been calls for national statements to encourage central and local government to develop sensitive and appropriate family and child care policies , and good child care service and practice . |
| 7 | There have been calls for the Bank to issue more debt at the short end , to take advantage of lower short rates . |
| 8 | Even in more recent times there have been calls to make nationalized industries , through their audit reports , more accountable to Parliament . |
| 9 | None of these possibilities is countenanced by competition policy in any of the three jurisdictions previously discussed , though there have been calls for a more protectionist approach in the US . |
| 10 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 11 | This of course is a value judgement which a government is entitled to make , but it is one which some economists would argue is not fully justified by the evidence , on the basis of which there have been calls for much more stringent control . |
| 12 | There have also been calls for the government to reverse its post-war land drainage policy , which has severely reduced the number of wetlands that replenish underground water tables . |
| 13 | My honourable friend the member for er South Hamms , Madam Deputy Speaker , er gave I thought a a an amusing but perceptive speech about the growth of deregulation , indeed some were saying that deregulation er is in fact the fastest growing part of bureaucracy in Whitehall and there have been calls to deregulate the deregulators er , he is of course quite right that Parkinson 's theory can extend in this area and one can find that deregulation acquires a life and momentum erm of its own . |
| 14 | There have been calls for an inquiry into the problem . |