Example sentences of "[noun sg] and call for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both rejected positivistic literary scholarship and called for a renewed attention to literature as literature ; both insisted on the differences between literature and other kinds of writing , and tried to define these differences in theoretical terms ; both gave a central role in their definitions to ideas of structure and interrelatedness , and treated the literary text as an object essentially independent of its author and its historical context . |
| 2 | CHURCHMEN and intellectuals in East Germany , worried about the new , aggressive tone that has crept into the emotional issue of reunification , yesterday warned against confrontation and called for a temporary end to mass street demonstrations . |
| 3 | China has regretted North Korea 's defiance and called for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula . |
| 4 | With several leading opposition figures clamouring for his resignation and calling for a national conference , President Mobutu Sese Seko on March 15 named a new Prime Minister , Mulumba Lukeji , replacing Lunda Bululu who had resigned the day before . |
| 5 | The judge indicated that he believed that police of all ranks had been involved in a cover-up of the initial investigation of the massacre and called for a public inquiry . |
| 6 | The permanent committee of Zaïre 's bishops had on March 2 criticized the " blocking " of democratisation and called for a national conference . |
| 7 | Feminists in the 60s and 70s deconstructed out culture to find their way and called for a non-hierarchical theory . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |