Example sentences of "[be] call for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're calling for more investment from the Government . |
| 2 | They 're calling for more resources from the District Health Authority … |
| 3 | A special meeting has therefore been called for two weeks time in order to press forward with ideas that could be implemented next season . |
| 4 | The team have also been called for 11 holding penalties in the last two games . |
| 5 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 6 | Tenders have also been called for 7,500 hp Co-Co two-voltage Railfreight locomotives capable of operating on both sides of the Channel , and BREL ( 1988 ) Ltd has already submitted initial designs . |
| 7 | A special meeting of both sides has been called for next Tuesday to discuss the crux . |
| 8 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 9 | Also , we have been calling for many years for legislation to get rid of the offshore tax havens of the sort that Lord Duncan-Sandys ploughed money into from Lonrho about 1970 . |
| 10 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 11 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 12 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |
| 13 | Labour say they would increase policing levels still further , and the Liberal Democrats are calling for new crime prevention programmes . |
| 14 | Though opinions among the seven are divided , only two are calling for immediate additional cuts . |
| 15 | There are also claims that some ministers are calling for increased borrowing to reduce the impact of cuts while others may push for tax increases . |
| 16 | Parents and staff at a primary school are calling for compulsory seat belts on coaches following a crash in which thirteen children were injured . |
| 17 | Recent developments indicate more movement towards site-based management as the National Governors ' Association , the National Education Association and the National Association of Secondary School Principals are calling for greater levels of financial devolution to bring about educational improvement . |
| 18 | The churches in Togo are calling for international aid and support following increasingly violent attacks on civilians . |
| 19 | Experts on the effects of head injuries are calling for better treatment for victims . |
| 20 | There are those who are calling for improved minimum standards at rallies . |
| 21 | Scientists from Lancaster Moor Hospital and Lancaster University , who discovered the link , are calling for more studies to be done to see if other childhood cancers have increased in the 4,000-5,000 children born between 1950 and 1990 to mothers in the target group . |
| 22 | Campaigners are calling for more safeguards , especially with further privatised jailsbeing planned . |
| 23 | The BMC are calling for urgent action to preserve some of Scotland 's most beautiful countryside areas |
| 24 | Road hauliers are calling for urgent talks over new speed limits for trucks . |
| 25 | In an attempt to prevent any further loss of the country 's mangroves , Ecuadorian environmentalists are calling for strict control over the expansion of shrimp farming , a key export industry which earns Ecuador half a billion dollars a year in foreign exchange . |
| 26 | Some Scottish fishing leaders are calling for revived seal culls as a means of boosting the local economy . |
| 27 | The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason . |
| 28 | May we have a change in our procedure for questioning the Leader of the House who last week announced the business for the following week even though he apparently knows that the election is to be called for 9 April and that the business will therefore be changed ? |
| 29 | Lord Lawson did not specify which taxes should be increased but he appeared to be calling for higher indirect taxation , rather than higher income tax , to bring in an extra £6 billion . |
| 30 | Recent pension fund scandals have shown how right Labour has been to call for stronger legal protection . |