Example sentences of "[noun pl] call for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Words calling for sustained effort ( " search " , " meditate " , " examine " ) are used in the Bible to describe the way the scriptures must be read for maximum benefit . |
| 2 | Speakers called for immediate action to reverse Mr Zhivkov 's national and religious assimilation policies towards the ethnic Turks and Bulgarian Muslims . |
| 3 | The downturn in business in a wide variety of sectors called for outstanding management talent in order to regenerate British industry . |
| 4 | Both parties called for mass protests to have the result annulled , the PAN stating that it would ask the Organization of American States ( OAS ) Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to hold a full scale investigation . |
| 5 | Southern nations called for specific funds to be made available to support the improvements , but this was rejected by the northern donor nations . |
| 6 | Today , as the massive clear-up operation got underway traders called for extra security measures including the installation of cameras . |
| 7 | On June 11 in Sofia , after the first round of elections , as many as 100,000 students and opposition supporters called for fresh elections to be held . |
| 8 | NOW that several of his own teeth have lost their crowns , and the fillings beneath have deteriorated , Kenneth Anusavice wishes his mother had known what today 's studies have shown : that not all cavities call for immediate fillings and that it is not always necessary to replace fillings that break down because of wear and tear . |
| 9 | Mass production methods call for detailed planning and sophisticated control procedures . |
| 10 | Parties call for political action |
| 11 | Overtime and pay concern prompts call for urgent talks . |
| 12 | The stewards called for quiet but , even to the brilliant Swede , the hole must have seemed distant and minute . |
| 13 | But it was also recognized that such circumstances called for different strategies within the respective elementary and higher sectors of education . |
| 14 | Haïtians call for international help |
| 15 | But yesterday they had to accept a report by officials calling for commercial waste collection charges which could result in bills of up to £2,000 a year for some users . |
| 16 | The subdivision of stock into subject groups calls for flexible and adroit administration . |
| 17 | Using objects calls for close observation , and allows pupils to develop hypotheses " What could it have been for ? " |
| 18 | Our new argument for the political virtues of conventionalism uses these distinctions to show why the line this theory draws between cases decided by law and cases calling for judicial legislation strikes the right balance between predictability and flexibility . |
| 19 | Challenging problems faced physicists , then , as the nineteenth century gave way to the twentieth , problems calling for new speculative hypotheses designed to overcome these problems in a progressive way . |
| 20 | Planting in pots and other containers calls for simple though necessary techniques to get good results , and these vary a little depending on whether the container is clay ( or stone ) , or plastic of some kind , and on which type of compost is being used . |
| 21 | By February 1916 pressure was mounting again , and resolutions calling for compulsory national service were flowing in ; the Executive refused to debate them , but passed them on to Law nevertheless . |
| 22 | Both of these committees called for institutional change , and the Dooge called for the creation of an Internal Market . |
| 23 | But desperate situations called for desperate lies . |
| 24 | As early as 1928 , Mary Parker Follett had suggested that different work situations called for different types of leadership . |
| 25 | As her first movie The Delinquents — aided by some pre-release hype over Australian clerics calling for sexy scenes between her and handsome co-star Charlie Shlatter to be cut — opened around the world at the end of 1989 , Kylie was planning a move that could set her on that same yellow brick road to showbusiness immortality . |
| 26 | On the international front Bill Widdis , director of systems development at the stock exchange , is wary of arguments calling for full transnational integration of share clearing systems . |
| 27 | ‘ Desperate situations call for desperate measures , ’ said Mr Eames grandly . |
| 28 | These occupations called for specialised skill , training and personal persistence . |
| 29 | Préval , the deposed Prime Minister ( who like the rest of the former Cabinet was in hiding — most of them in the French embassy ) issued leaflets calling for non-violent civil disobedience campaigns , as did Aristide in radio broadcasts beamed from neighbouring Dominican Republic . |
| 30 | The ASEAN leaders called for increased economic co-operation and sought an increase in foreign investment in ASEAN countries . |