Example sentences of "called for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead the government called for each council to appoint an officer responsible for reviewing the propriety and legality of council business who would be under statutory duty to report if an action or decision was likely to be improper or unlawful . |
| 2 | It was an effort even to fetch coal from outside , and a herculean struggle was called for each time I opened the garage doors which faced the prevailing gales . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Campaigners living near the base called for all flights to be suspended pending an investigation but a spokesman said operations would continue as normal . |
| 5 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 6 | Caledor raised his own standard and called for all true Elves to join him in defence of the realm . |
| 7 | They proposed the withdrawal of ships carrying nuclear arms from the Mediterranean and called for all countries to abstain from deploying such weapons in the territories of non-nuclear Mediterranean countries . |
| 8 | On March 26 Zorig , the MDU leader , called for all Soviet advisors to be withdrawn from the Ministry of Defence and Public Security and from the Planning Commission . |
| 9 | Most notably , it insisted on the Ukraine 's right to have " its own armed forces , internal security troops and state security bodies " , and to veto the deployment of Ukrainian citizens outside the republic for military service ( a subsequent resolution , adopted on July 30 , condemned the deployment of Ukrainian conscripts in peacekeeping duties in Transcaucasia and Central Asia , and called for all Ukrainian conscripts serving in other republics to be repatriated by Dec. 1 ) . |
| 10 | At Gbagbo 's trial , which began on Feb. 27 , lawyers called for all charges against him and 19 other defendants to be dropped " to prove to the world that the rule of law exists and that Côte d'Ivoire is not a police state " . |
| 11 | The Tokyo summit called for all ed poorest , most indebted including the possibility of earlier action on the stock of debt . |
| 12 | The Taylor report , following the Hillsborough disaster , called for all seater stadiums . |
| 13 | Mr Hamilton also took a swipe at the defence select committee 's report which had called for all infantry battalion amalgamations , including merger of four Scottish regiments , to be cancelled . |
| 14 | SCOTTISH Natural Heritage has called for all ships carrying hazardous cargo to be banned from the Minches and Fair Isle Channel . |
| 15 | A flexible array of services is called for that can meet the very varied needs of different groups of the mentally ill . |
| 16 | Buthelezi for his part had frequently called for such a meeting , insisting on meeting Mandela on an equal footing . |
| 17 | Lawyers , politicians and environmentalists have called for such action at an international conference in London organized by Greenpeace . |
| 18 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 19 | The prime minister called for more restraint , in the wake of an article in the Bank of England 's Quarterly Bulletin noting the continued problem . |
| 20 | Though the problem of radiation embrittlement has been recognised since the outset of the civil Magnox programme in the early 1960s , the inspectorate called for more evidence of the safety of Magnox plants in 1990 after it found the rate of embrittlement may have been faster than predicted . |
| 21 | While the leftists in the capital called for more development , on the ground the communities welcomed the expected bonanza from mining . |
| 22 | The scare that cellular phones might cause brain tumours has died away — everywhere except in Germany : according to Reuter , German cellular phone firms and experts called for more research to soothe public fears of possible dangers from electromagnetic radiation from portable telephones — despite the fact that most experts , including the head of the government telecommunications agency , told a hearing in parliament that research suggests no health danger from phones . |
| 23 | The Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom has recently called for more training in educational methods for all university teachers . |
| 24 | Victim Support Patron HRH The Princess Royal has called for more help to be offered to victims of crime . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The left called for more nationalisation ; the ‘ traditional ’ right wing of the party argued that this ‘ needed more research ’ and conveniently forgot about it , while the new ‘ revisionist ’ current represented by Healey , Jenkins and Crosland saw public ownership as irrelevant and raised ‘ equality ’ as the prime goal of socialism — a position formalised in Crosland 's ‘ Future of Socialism ’ in 1956 . |
| 27 | They shouted , laughed and cried , ate oranges , and called for more . |
| 28 | This motion advocated a revival of nationalist Gaullist traditions to distinguish the RPR electorally from other right-wing parties , and called for more party independence , asserting that in its present state , still demoralized by the defeat of Chirac in the 1988 presidential elections , the RPR was incapable of forming an effective opposition . |
| 29 | D'Aubigny waved aside our letter of introduction and called for more refreshments before joining Angus on the other side of the table . |
| 30 | Erm , the , all the arguments for and against organic dips have been considered this last nine months by the Veterinary Products Committee , and they 've come out with a report I think , that satisfies no one , because it does n't go either , either way in that respect at all , it 's called for more research and , and erm , development in that , in that sense . |