Example sentences of "to call for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The form this took was to call for a jihad , or holy war , against the US forces and the overthrow of Saudi King Fahd and President Mubarak of Egypt . |
| 2 | The UN Security Council , meeting in closed session on Feb. 26 , agreed not to call for a ceasefire until Iraq had agreed to comply with all 12 relevant resolutions . |
| 3 | It 's given us its full backing , and it 's going to call for a day of action in support of us which will include strike action throughout the Media Industry . |
| 4 | Some forty years later , the town had grown big enough to call for a church of its own , instead of attending the mother church of Great Bowden . |
| 5 | The Farm Animal Welfare Council is the latest to call for a phasing out of the system . |
| 6 | The first Left-winger to call for a drive against Militant and to recognise the popularity of selling council houses , he said his party ignored the aspirations of young married couples on new housing estates at its peril . |
| 7 | He also appeared to call for a referendum on Maastricht — against Government policy . |
| 8 | The full list of traits is so long that it appears to call for a man or woman of extraordinary , even superhuman , gifts to be a leader . |
| 9 | Peter 's first thoughts were to call for a vicar to make an honest couple out of them , but after a lengthy investigation he suggested the family consult a veterinary surgeon . |
| 10 | Editor , — The Today radio programme has reported that police surgeons or forensic medical examiners are to call for a ban on methadone for prisoners in police custody . |
| 11 | The US Fish and Wildlife Service had been expected to reach a decision soon on whether to call for a ban or not . |
| 12 | The first reaction of the leader of the PAC 's negotiating team , Gora Ebrahim , was to call for a suspension of the negotiations , not to withdraw permanently . |
| 13 | Now , if you want details of Katie 's Legoland adventure , there is that old familiar number to call for a copy of our fact sheet . |
| 14 | If you want any details about Carol 's nightwear feature , there 's the usual number to call for a copy of our Fact Sheet . |
| 15 | Hun Sen went on to call for a meeting of the all-party Supreme National Council ( SNC ) in Bangkok . |
| 16 | Like Mr Rocard in 1988 , Mrs Cresson decided not to call for a vote of confidence on her new government 's programme , outlined to parliament on May 22nd . |
| 17 | At the same time British and European importers heard a rumour that the World Wildlife Fund was planning to call for a boycott on the use of tropical timbers . |
| 18 | It was scenes like this that prompted the MP for Hereford to call for a review of flood defences . |
| 19 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 20 | Rejecting what he considers to be the uncomfortably fast Czerny metronome mark of 96 per bar for Haydn 's Symphony no.99 , Neumann states that ‘ this is certainly a fast minuet , beaten in one[ ; but ] it seems [ only ] to call for a tempo of ca.66 for the dotted half-note to convey its commodious gemütlich spirit . ’ |
| 21 | There somewhere around Nottinghamshire something around Nottinghamshire what are they describing there three four three four three four to call for a bash at Kids ' County do n't leave it too long before you call and er if you want to talk to the councillors about the leaf stem and trees you can call as well . |
| 22 | Three four three four three four to call for a bash at Kids ' County . |
| 23 | Three four three four three four to call for a bash at Kids ' County er we 'll see if we can sort it out while this is on from the Dooleys . |
| 24 | And the nearest relative 's right to call for an assessment by the local authority could be extended to guardianship , forcing authorities to give reasons for not exercising their power . |
| 25 | PARENTS at one of Scotland 's largest state schools are collecting names for a petition to call for an opt-out ballot . |
| 26 | In his first State of the Union message , Reagan reiterated the essentials of his programme and went on to call for an increase in defence spending of $7.2 billion and cuts in excess of $40 billion from the proposed 1982 budget of $740 billion . |
| 27 | Waltham Forest health authority , which includes Mr Norman Tebbit 's Chingford constituency , in Essex , has become the second health authority to call for an end to the dispute by either negotiation or arbitration . |
| 28 | The clashes spread to the republic 's parliament building yesterday afternoon , when suspected Serb gunmen opened fire on tens of thousands of demonstrators , who had braved the troubled streets to call for an end to the spiralling violence . |
| 29 | But would it not be dangerously confused to call for an end to all missionary activities or every government resettlement programme , even in Indonesia and South America ? |
| 30 | On the eve of the start of the plenum various radical pro-reform groups organized a huge demonstration in the centre of Moscow to call for an end to the communist monopoly , for the removal of conservatives from the CPSU leadership , and for an end to privileges for the nomenklatura ( party functionaries ) . |