Example sentences of "may call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Stomach troubles from sour food or drink is another situation which may call for this remedy . |
| 3 | For example , it may instruct its members to go-slow or work-to-rule or it may call for selective strikes ( in which certain groups of workers stop working for a specified time period ) ; or all the union members may be called out on a one-day strike . |
| 4 | Since a measure 's legal basis in the Treaty of Rome can influence the voting rules applied in the Council , legal disputes on such matters may call for resolution by the European Court . |
| 5 | Different circumstances may call for a different approach , fine . |
| 6 | They are , therefore , formulaic in character and although they may call for some adaptation for contextual fit they are not composed on each occasion from constituent parts . |
| 7 | For the purpose of making a haulage contract , an offer may call for acceptance of the haulage services on offer by another promise or by conduct . |
| 8 | An essay in Science , Engineering or Technology may call for a survey of the literature on a specific topic . |
| 9 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 10 | it is able to take advantage of economies of scale , which in turn may call for the establishment of departments of specialists or experts ( eg. research and development , management scientists etc ) ; |
| 11 | Members may call for a report on policing matters from the chief constable ; and can appoint , discipline and fire senior officers . |
| 12 | It may call for assertive behaviour in dealing with others to get the matters cleared up . ’ |