Example sentences of "[been] calling for " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's been calling for you , ’ Sister Duggan told him . |
| 3 | Private Patients Plan , Britain 's second largest health insurer , has been calling for government intervention to stop the HCA takeover since it was announced in June . |
| 4 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |
| 5 | The territorial assembly has been calling for the tests to stop until proper health studies are done . |
| 6 | For years , Costa Rica has been calling for the extradition of US citizen John Hull , charged with premeditated homicide , drugs and arms trafficking , along with other criminal acts including participation in the 1984 bombing of a news conference at La Penca , in which six died . |
| 7 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 8 | ‘ The seven per cent bank base rate is very good news for the housing market and it is what we have been calling for . |
| 9 | For many years AI has been calling for an independent judicial inquiry to investigate the pattern of disputed killings by security forces in Northern Ireland in order to help prevent unlawful killings . |
| 10 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 11 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 12 | The foundation of a national Board of Education signalled the acceptance within the official culture of a need for policies that would co-ordinate an efficient and fully national system of education , and also allowed the voices of dons who had been calling for a transformation of the traditional curriculum to carry more weight than ever before . |
| 13 | His lordship 's been calling for you . ’ |
| 14 | Quite recently , the European Parliament have been calling for oil ships which do not meet E E C standards to be expelled from community waters . |
| 15 | Economists have long been calling for safety regulations to be subject to cost-benefit analysis . |
| 16 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 17 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 18 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 19 | The effect of these new measures will be to allow a substantial acceleration and simplification , which everybody 's been calling for , of decision making in asylum and immigration cases . |
| 20 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 21 | Mr Clarke effectively slapped down the Cabinet dissenters — John Redwood , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo — who have been calling for the already-tight £254 billion spending target to be cut . |
| 22 | Mr Clarke effectively slapped down the Cabinet dissenters — John Redwood , Peter Lilley and Michael Portillo — who have been calling for the already-tight £254bn spending target to be cut . |
| 23 | They 've been calling for an alternative route to the A 421 since World War Two . |