Example sentences of "have called [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail has called on four rail unions to agree plans to limit excessive overtime worked by signals and telecommunications engineers as part of a radical review of pay and working conditions following the disaster . |
| 2 | Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , has called on other trade unionists to take action today to defend the coal industry , which is being run down despite the Government 's rescue package reprieving 12 of the original 31 pits earmarked for closure . |
| 3 | Now he has called on other schools in the town to unite in a crusade against violence and drug abuse . |
| 4 | Malaysia has called on developing countries , particularly those dependent on timber and timber products , to " be conscious of negative attempts by the developed West " . |
| 5 | The Church of Scotland has called on all Scottish authorities to follow Lothian 's example and provide extra cash to help bridge gaps in community care provision . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , the Prime Minister John Major has called on Labour to withdraw their promises on tax . |
| 7 | Outraged Tory Peter Jones has called on fellow borough councillors to ban on the exhibition which is set to go on display at the town 's Arts Centre . |
| 8 | The Reverend Stan McKay , a Native Canadian , has called on Christian communicators to help dismantle the myths that continue to denigrate aboriginal people throughout the world . |
| 9 | PREMIER John Major is so worried this weekend 's EC summit will end in disaster he has called on bitter enemy Francois Mitterrand for help . |
| 10 | A leading politics don at Oxford University has called on local parliamentary candidate , Bruce Kent , to urge his party to support a public referendum on electoral reform . |
| 11 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 12 | Tim Hurren , the Liberal Democrats ' prospective Parliamentary candidate for Harrogate , has called on British Rail to electrify the Leeds , Harrogate , York line following the start of work between Skipton and Ilkley . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , Delyn MP David Hanson has called on British Coal to withdraw the advance redundancy notices sent out to workers at the 31 pits listed for closure . |
| 14 | The Institute has called for new pensions legislation to be introduced , with limitations on the use of pension fund surpluses , and new accounting and auditing requirements . |
| 15 | WHILE most British eyes have been on the election of a new Westminster parliament , a 500-member pensioner 's parliament from all 12 countries of the European Community has called for better pensions throughout the EC . |
| 16 | The organisation has called for international pressure to be brought to end the trade in South Korea , Taiwan , China and Thailand , where horn is sold openly . |
| 17 | The Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , has called for fifty pence rise in petrol prices to be phased in to cut levels of carbon dioxide emissions . |
| 18 | The parliament has called for other EC countries to follow the Dutch lead . |
| 19 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 20 | The all-party Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has called for stricter regulations to prevent pollution by oil and chemical spills at sea . |
| 21 | A COUNCILLOR has called for stricter planning controls to be imposed on house builders . |
| 22 | The Economics Minister , Juergen Moelleman , has called for Western states to provide urgent aid to make ex-Soviet plants safe , with the priority being to shut down the RBMKs . |
| 23 | A coroner has called for tighter security at a psychiatric hospital , after a patient walked out of a locked ward and was killed by a train on nearby railway tracks . |
| 24 | Amid growing public debate in France over the question of what to do with the country 's nuclear waste , a parliamentary report has called for major changes in the state nuclear waste agency , ANDRA ( Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs ) . |
| 25 | The World Health Organisation has called for individual developing countries to commit themselves to decade programmes . |
| 26 | The Australian RSPCA has called for immediate reforms to animal protection laws after discovering 10,000 sheep had starved to death on a farm in south-western New South Wales . |
| 27 | AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business . |
| 28 | JAPANESE Emperor Akihito has called for closer cultural ties between Japan and the European Community . |
| 29 | A Countryside Commission review has called for wide-ranging reforms to protect the 10 national parks of England and Wales from the growing threats of development and tourism . |
| 30 | 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 . |