Example sentences of "was calling for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heath was calling for a decisive mandate to put the unions in their place , but the most striking feature of the results is that they offered no party any decisive mandate whatever . |
| 2 | Fortunately she had no time to find the answer , as Mr Pumblechook was calling for a hot rum to remove the taste of the medicine . |
| 3 | He was calling for a sherry . |
| 4 | By January 1990 the FDP was calling for a reduction to 350,000 personnel and a reduction in conscription to 12 months . |
| 5 | Snegur favoured a gradual approach , but part of the Popular Front , demanding immediate action , was calling for a boycott of the presidential elections . |
| 6 | Advance , the unofficial League of Youth paper which was growing rapidly in influence , was calling for a " drawing together of the working class youth Internationals " . |
| 7 | She said the campaign was calling for a halt to the trend towards privatisation , and more funding to prevent cuts in services . |
| 8 | The exiled Leon Trotsky was calling for the overthrow of Stalin , then engaged in his most murderous of purges . |
| 9 | In the office beyond the grille , Mr Saleb was calling for the book . |
| 10 | A curfew was imposed in Cabinda on Nov. 12 after at least nine deaths in clashes between government forces and supporters of the Front for the Liberation of the Cabinda Enclave ( FLEC ) , which was calling for the independence of the region . |
| 11 | The Party had supported Labour candidates and was calling for the return of a Labour Government . |
| 12 | Minutes later Ross was calling for the manageress of the designer-wear department — and imperiously stating his requirements . |
| 13 | In Britain , by the 1890s the TUC was calling for the nationalization of the ‘ whole of the means of production , distribution and exchange ’ ( Weiner 1960 : 4 ) . |