Example sentences of "call for a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 4th , May 1926 , the Trades Union Council called for a General Strike in support or striking coal miners . |
| 2 | In the House of Commons , Labour called for a firm stand in alliance with France and the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Pressure group The Forum of Private Businesses has called for a radical change in the legal structure of small firms . |
| 4 | FORMER international Dorothy Armstrong last night called for a radical change in the format of domestic squash following last week 's vote to amalgamate the Northern Ireland Men 's and Women 's Associations . |
| 5 | The result was that ministers called for a radical reform in the OECD countries ' approach to economic activities , " to help ensure that the basic life support systems of Planet Earth are not endangered . " |
| 6 | As the fatal accident inquiry gets underway , a leading academic has called for a dramatic change in the attitude of the government and courts towards Scotland 's drug users . |
| 7 | The RSPCA has called for a full investigation in the case of a Worcester man filmed torturing a cat . |
| 8 | That was how the first New Internationalist editorial began , back in March 1973 , calling for a second front in rich countries that would help the people of the Third World in their war on poverty . |
| 9 | Achille Occhetto , PCI general secretary , had opened the congress with a speech on Jan. 31 designed to conciliate the left wing by calling for a unilateral ceasefire in the Gulf and the withdrawal of Italian naval and air force contingents from the anti-Iraq coalition . |
| 10 | And he is also calling for a massive reduction in overseas aid , already hit by the fall in the value of the pound . |
| 11 | A leading academic is calling for a dramatic change in the attitude of the government and courts towards Scotland 's drug users . |
| 12 | Scott LJ said : In my view the nature of the proviso , instead of requiring a strict interpretation of the word " taxation " in favour of the taxpayer , calls for a liberal interpretation in favour of the Crown . |
| 13 | This problem calls for a major change in the content of our primary education and for the raising of the school entry age so that the child is older when he leaves , and also able to learn more quickly while he is in school . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 15 | The trade union movement has reached a new unity with the foundation of the Comite Unitario Sindical ( CUS ) which calls for a negotiated solution in common with the FDR-FMLN position . |
| 16 | These include , first , any calls for a radical restructuring of society in which new structures and processes of government are sought which would significantly alter the balance between governors and governed ; second , calls for greater priority to be given to social , community and ecological factors in decision-making and lower priority to be given to economic and technological factors which are geared towards reproducing or sustaining the kind of society that exists at present ; and , third , calls for a significant change in defence policy , for example , a renunciation of nuclear weapons , neutralism or disengagement from military alliances such as NATO ( McAuslan , 1980 , p. 6 ) . |
| 17 | He called for a one-day strike in September . |
| 18 | Claiborne Pell , chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee , also called for a neutral government in Kabul to hold elections or seek a traditional Afghan consultative assembly . |
| 19 | They called for a broader curriculum in a survey that revealed that 14 per cent believe bank loans are interest-free . |