Example sentences of "to call for an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | PARENTS at one of Scotland 's largest state schools are collecting names for a petition to call for an opt-out ballot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 ) . |