Example sentences of "to call [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Geoffrey Palmer , Prime Minister of New Zealand , promptly announced his intention to call for a global ban on drift-netting during his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in October . |
| 3 | The District Attorney decided to call for a grand jury inquiry and invited Mitchum and the other defendants to attend . |
| 4 | The terms of reference for his review explicitly allowed Mr Large to call for a new act . |
| 5 | This problem is so great that it has become fashionable to call for a new kind of organization to put in place of managerial hierarchy , an organization that will better meet the requirements of what is variously called the Information Age , the Services Age or the Post-lndustrial Age . |
| 6 | His solution to the problem of scholarship is to call for a closer alliance between literary criticism and the historical study of language , to be achieved through the kind of emphasis on literary language which he himself had favoured since the 1930s . |
| 7 | Kant , standing on the threshold between Enlightenment and Romanticism , sketched a plan for eternal world peace while his romantic successor , Schelling , was one philosopher among many to call for a pan-European or worldwide federation to achieve this end . |
| 8 | It is insufficient to call for a simple ‘ left-right ’ divide of media power since the traditional ‘ magnetic poles ’ of ideology no longer attract so strongly . |
| 9 | There is enough area there to call for a two-person crew , so launching is rarely a problem . |
| 10 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 11 | Than Tun continued to call for a national government but made it clear that armed struggle was , for the present , not envisaged . |
| 12 | Saddam Hussein has gone on Baghdad T V to call for a Holy War against U S forces in the Gulf , and the overthrow of Saudi Arabia 's King Faed . |
| 13 | On January 14th the unlikely figure of Bob Dole , the Senate Republican leader , took time off from the Gulf to call for a statutory commission to find out why women have not broken through the ‘ glass ceiling ’ that keeps them from top management jobs . |
| 14 | Members of Halton Friends of the Earth have been urging people in Runcorn to call for a public inquiry into ICI 's plan for an incinerator there . |
| 15 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 16 | Of the monumental stones he writes " However the knowledge of their general existence may " be interesting , there is nothing in them , individually considered , to call for a particular description , " and of the islands in the lochs he says " Similar remains , situated in the same manner , are seen at Loch Finlaggan ; but none of them present any interest to detain either the painter or the antiquary . " |
| 17 | Absolute exemption from restriction or regulation is never obtained : circumstances , social or economic , may have altered , since they obtained acceptance , in such a way as to call for a fresh examination ; there may be some exorbitance or special feature in the individual contract which takes it out of the accepted category : but the court however must be persuaded of this before it calls upon the relevant party to justify a contract of this kind . |
| 18 | The Act also grants the auditor the power to call for a judicial review of an authority 's decision . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ Faced with the myriad opportunities for the concealment of fraudulent activities which companies and trusts provide , Parliament has given the Serious Fraud Office the power to call upon a suspected person to come into the open , and to disclose information which may incriminate him . |
| 23 | On council estates every tenant will have the right to call in a private contractor if the council fails to do a minor repair . |
| 24 | For instance , Tarrow hypotheses that where a generally populist strategy is adopted by a broad-based urban-rural coalition able to call on a strong administrative apparatus , social policy may have a general redistributive impact in raising the standard of living in the periphery . |