Example sentences of "[noun] were call for " in BNC.

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1 from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery …
2 from Northern Ireland there 's big Billy Hamilton … he 's an old Oxford favourite … the fans were calling for him on saturday … he 's done well with Distillery …
3 Medau MArdle ( Norfolkese for ‘ gossip ’ ) is the title of a Medau newsheet launched last year for Norfolk members , edited by Janet Burns — so successful that readers were calling for a second edition a bare three weeks later .
4 Demonstration were called for March 9 in Belgrade by opposition groups led by Vuk Draskovic , the chairman of the Serbian Renaissance Movement which opposed Milosevic 's confrontational policies toward non-communist organisations .
5 Opposition parties were calling for fresh elections , and criticizing President Slobodan Milosevic for his handling of the military campaign .
6 Reports claimed that demonstrators in the south were calling for the establishment of an Islamic government in Iraq headed by Hakim .
7 New strategies for regional distribution were called for , and a fresh interest in the regions was shown by Whitehall .
8 So , Special Commissions of the Conference were called for this purpose in 1978 and 1985 .
9 It is hardly surprising that health authorities and hospital managers were calling for the immediate introduction of capitation funding for fundholders as a means of stemming losses from their budgets .
10 In line with all the structural changes , some very fundamental behavioural changes were called for .
11 I assure her that if the Government had thought that changes were called for , we would have made them .
12 JUSTICE for all and a fair sharing of resources were called for by Bishop Konstant when he welcomed candidates who will become Catholics at Easter .
13 New types of station were called for .
14 The rest of the cast were called for three to do a complete rehearsal of all the scenes he was in .
15 A truly socialist legal system and democracy complete with free speech and free media were called for .
16 In 1989 , that is three years after the original gastroscopic screening , the same pernicious anaemia patients were called for a follow up gastroscopy .
17 He said staunch Tory newspapers were calling for the resignation of Chancellor Norman Lamont — to follow that of David Mellor .
18 The same forces were calling for freedom and democracy .
19 Mr Justice Turner , when jailing Clarke , said that deterrent sentences were called for .
20 Lovins dismissed the development of nuclear power as the primary source of energy for industrial growth in the developing world , by estimating that in order to generate the level of energy pro-nuclear scientists were calling for , a new plant would have to come on stream every eleven hours throughout 54 years of actual construction , a financial impossibility .
21 The demonstrators were calling for the resumption of the National Conference , suspended by the government in January , which had been set up by more than 130 political parties to review and undertake reform on Zaire 's one-party political system .
22 The official line was that ‘ true character of French concessions to Indo-Chinese nationalism and ultimate intentions are clear to Department ’ and it was for this reason that no further substantive concessions involving parliamentary action in France were called for at that time .
23 It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships .
24 FURTHER investigations into the causes of childhood leukaemia were called for yesterday after publication of a report which challenges the link with radioactive discharges .
25 At the review , Panel Members who knew the children from the previous case were called for the Hearing .
26 Drastic measures were called for when Scarlett the Borzoi disappeared from her home at Orston , Nottinghamshire .
27 Sir Robin Day , realising that drastic measures were called for , started to make funny faces .
28 Drastic measures were called for .
29 As the schoolchildren learnt there would no school for a week , the police were calling for help in their search for the aronsists .
30 ( This Management team of four ( bondholders ) survived until November 1921 when at the Annual General Meeting that year the President , Lord Rathcreedan , announced that ‘ The provision for Club members on the Committee had been overlooked ’ and two nominations were called for ) .
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