Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun] call [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | London financier Dennis Oliver has mobilised a group of MCC members to call for a special meeting of the club to protest about Gower 's absence . |
| 2 | The National Co-ordination Committee of Opposition Groups called for a day of civil disobedience on April 15 and for a general strike — " Operation dead cities " — on April 18 and 19 , which appeared to be widely observed . |
| 3 | Owners of transport companies called off a nation-wide strike on Nov. 13 after six days of widespread disruption affecting bus , train and taxi services . |
| 4 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 5 | Professor Fred Stone of Glasgow University called for a countrywide network of agencies made up from the police , social workers , teachers and other agencies to spot potential troublesome children . |
| 6 | He blasted MPs like Bryan Gould calling for a vote with Tory rebels against Maastricht . |
| 7 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 8 | I believe we should not only be looking at simple traffic calming , I believe we should be looking at er greater use of subsidised school transport and in fact transport called for a report and I gather going on right out . |