Example sentences of "call for " in BNC.

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1 No one could therefore call for the closure of incineration plants at a stroke , because noxious chemicals have to go somewhere .
2 The Dutch government is so concerned that at next week 's 103-nation conference in Lausanne of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ( Cites ) it will call for a total ban on trade in the plants .
3 Tory unease over the poll tax will surface at the party conference tomorrow when delegates will call for government cash to fund the ‘ safety net ’ .
4 As just one example , the grouping of occupations into ‘ social classes ’ might call for variations between one country and the next .
5 He believes it will call for a fundamental rethink about the way that work is structured .
6 W/Cpl Burns informs the Volkspoliqei that their request is outside the terms of the Agreement , and that if they want any details they must call for a Soviet officer , to whom the information will be given .
7 Conspicuous distortion of a broad opening spanned by a bressummer may call for the insertion of diagonal steel bracing , brick piers to stiffen flank walls and new intermediate supports .
8 I 'll call for you in my car tomorrow .
9 However , it is not yet clear whether the new regulations , will call for the individual dual pricing of all goods in the shop , or whether a simple surcharge could be added to the bill .
10 Whenever there was trouble beyond their capacity to snuff out , they could call for air support from Khormaksa , the RAF base at Aden .
11 The intransigence of both coal owners and the union ensured that conflict was inevitable , and with it the threat of a wider conflict whereby the TUC would at least call for a coal embargo from its constituent unions .
12 Projects of this sort certainly do not call for an elaborate cost-benefit analysis ; resources should be assigned to them on the basis of a simple ‘ back-of-an-envelope ’ analysis or an informed subjective decision .
13 Should he call for help ?
14 So there are many different situations that involve aggression that will call for us to respond in different ways .
15 I 'd call for liquor of the best
16 Asked whether , if the Tories lost the vote , the Queen would call for Mr Kinnock to form a government , Mr Heseltine said : ‘ That would be a matter for the Royal prerogative . ’
17 M Francois d'Aubert , an opposition MP , said his UDF party would call for an inquiry into M Tapie 's financial affairs .
18 Three foreign entrants have already withdrawn and a meeting tomorrow of the British Wheelchair Racing Association could call for a boycott by all British competitors .
19 Tomorrow Mr Kinnock will call for his successor to be chosen ‘ sooner rather than later ’ and will urge the ruling National Executive Committee to hold a special June conference to decide the issue .
20 As has been seen above ( Chapter 1 ) , the same measure will call for controls to prevent eutrophication in coastal water and Britain has been fighting the battle-of-the-maps at the Paris Commission .
21 McCann 's speech , with its suggestion that the police lines ought to be charged , while refusing to actually call for such action , seems to have typified the confused militancy of the radicals , who were suddenly precipitated into a conflict for which they were quite unprepared .
22 So , if we are concerned with what constitutes a just allocation of resources , my prescription , at the very least , would call for policies aimed at ensuring , as far as possible , that everyone had an equal opportunity to enjoy an equal share of the total net welfare of society .
23 I will call for you , at the door , on Saturday . ’
24 This scheme would call for 10 hydroelectric plants along a 1,000 km stretch of river and would be one of the largest ever hydro-electric undertakings .
25 I 'll wheel it along to the cottage and keep it dry for you , and you can call for it tomorrow .
26 ‘ I never thought I should have a friend to play with and a pony to ride , Aunty ! ’ she said happily , as she got ready to go out and call for Angela Yatton .
27 Stomach troubles from sour food or drink is another situation which may call for this remedy .
28 Her pleas that determinism need not imply hostility ( ’ it can instead call for cooperation ’ ) , and that the novelist was really both behind and ahead of his time in scientific terms , are scarcely compelling .
29 Ministers say the project is too costly and will call for the project , known as Super-SARA , to be abandoned at a meeting of EEC research ministers next month .
30 This latter group of people will inevitably form the great majority , and it is mainly they who will provide the justification for the establishment of a clergy for the ‘ Alternative Religion ’ , and it is they who will prefer to put their faith in carefully chosen leaders , possibly elected from among the others , and on whom they can call for guidance .
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