Example sentences of "[verb] call for a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * The Russian government has called for a comprehensive moratorium on weapons testing by all nuclear states . |
| 2 | An MP has called for a total ban on tobacco advertising because he says the industry 's voluntary code is a waste of time . |
| 3 | An international scientific expedition has called for a 10-year moratorium on the extension of oil and gas production to a huge area of north-west Siberia to allow time for urgent research into its forests , peat bogs and tundra . |
| 4 | Informix Software Inc 's UK managing director , Malcolm Padina , has called for a new initiative to purge the Unix market from software pirates : Padina , a board member of the Federation Against Software Theft aims to establish a Federation subcommittee to address the problem . |
| 5 | Margaret Anne Doody has called for a new edition of Leapor 's poetry . |
| 6 | He believes that , because so many of the Yanomami have been killed by disease , they do n't need such a large area and has called for a new study of their territory . |
| 7 | Greenpeace has called for a complete reorganization of the International Atomic Energy Authority ( IAEA ) , the UN regulatory body , on the grounds that its mandate to promote nuclear energy is incompatible with its responsibility as an international nuclear watchdog . |
| 8 | Coun Ord , a member of Sedgefield District Council , has called for a concerted campaign to get the proportional representation across . |
| 9 | Vice-President of the London Tourist Board ( LTB ) , Lord Pitt of Hampstead , has called for a London-wide authority to plan and co-ordinate development in the capital . |
| 10 | Pressure group The Forum of Private Businesses has called for a radical change in the legal structure of small firms . |
| 11 | Sir John Hoskyns , a former head of Mrs Thatcher 's Policy Unit , has called for a radical reform of the government system if the effort to transform the economy is to succeed . |
| 12 | It rejected evidence from government witnesses that present management arrangements were working well and has called for a radical reorganization . |
| 13 | Although the WHO has called for a worldwide effort to stop AIDS , responses to the epidemic have varied considerably from country to country . |
| 14 | But English Heritage has called for a thorough feasibility study before the third application is determined . |
| 15 | Austria , Denmark , Germany , the Netherlands and Norway have already unilaterally imposed a 1 January 1995 deadline , and the German chemical industry federation , VCI , has called for a uniform phaseout timetable to be adopted by all signatories to the Montreal Protocol , who will be meeting in Copenhagen later this year . |
| 16 | A SCOTTISH fishing boss has called for a Europe-wide boycott of cheap fish to stop non-EC states destroying the fishing industry . |
| 17 | It has called for a global convention outlawing all toxic waste trade schemes — and it needs your support . |
| 18 | As the fatal accident inquiry gets underway , a leading academic has called for a dramatic change in the attitude of the government and courts towards Scotland 's drug users . |
| 19 | The RSPCA has called for a full investigation in the case of a Worcester man filmed torturing a cat . |
| 20 | An MP has called for a full review of flood defences following the chaos caussed by torrential rain over the past week . |
| 21 | Roger Davis , head of audit at Coopers & Lybrand , has called for a corporate governance panel — similar to the City 's Takeover Panel — to be set up to ensure that the voluntary system of corporate governance , recommended in the Cadbury report , is effective . |
| 22 | Although he insists there will be no change in France 's basic strategy , President Mitterrand has called for a national debate on defence . |
| 23 | THE heavily-polluted Czech town of Chomutov has threatened to call for a general strike unless the government cleans up the air , a town official said yesterday . |
| 24 | The Act confers extensive powers of entry , search , and seizure which necessarily involve an invasion of the citizen 's rights of privacy and property ; on that account the legislation might be thought to call for a strict construction . |
| 25 | With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising . |
| 26 | Most of these , too , developed along existing paths , the paths that ran from village to village in Saxon times , though here and there they may have called for a new piece to complete the chain of paths . |
| 27 | At around the time of the publication of the draft statutes for the proposed European central bank ( November 1990 ) , the Germans started calling for a quick move to a two-speed EMU , with only Germany 's immediate neighbours joining the ecu zone . |
| 28 | The District Attorney decided to call for a grand jury inquiry and invited Mitchum and the other defendants to attend . |
| 29 | On Jan. 4 miners ' leaders had called for a temporary halt to the march , after an offer by Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut to hold talks , but two days later the march was resumed after union leaders had rejected a government offer of a 250 per cent pay rise . |
| 30 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |