Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] call for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 2 | Its programme called for tax cuts , reduced immigration , and the abolition of traffic wardens and was not taken seriously by many observers , although it went on to win parliamentary representation in the September 1991 general election [ see p. 38444 ] . |
| 3 | She was murdered by the side of the M50 in Worcestershire as she walked from her car to call for help . |
| 4 | It was significant that when the International Revolutionary Socialists had held their conference of April 1916 in Switzerland , barely any of the French Socialists voiced support for their resolutions calling for an immediate peace . |
| 5 | Given the Labour Party 's lack of political action on the Spanish issue it is hardly surprising that the Labour Spain Committee renewed its efforts to call for a national conference , which it organized in October 1938 . |
| 6 | Its charter calls for supporting high-volume desktop hardware platforms , initially Intel Corp iAPX-86 and the PowerPC . |
| 7 | Its leaders called for a postponement of the multiparty elections scheduled for Feb. 10 , 1991 , on the grounds that they would not have sufficient time to organize a campaign , but this demand was immediately rejected by the government . |
| 8 | When the great day came her friends called for her . |
| 9 | The United States on 2 November won a vote of 64 to 5 in support of its motion calling for a cease-fire . |
| 10 | She liked him still but felt that the familiarity of his uninvited arm about her shoulder called for backing-away tactics . |
| 11 | The power of the governors in relation to the ethos of the school will rest in their ability to call for reports and explanations — the ability to make clear their approval and their criticisms of particular aspects of the school , as they are aware of its reputation and character . |
| 12 | Its timetable calls for it to have its requirements back to UI by next July . |
| 13 | His enemies called for peace but he brought them death . |
| 14 | Geoffrey Palmer , Prime Minister of New Zealand , promptly announced his intention to call for a global ban on drift-netting during his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in October . |
| 15 | Probably an amalgam of two mass-circulation papers The New York Herald and The Morning Courier and New-York Enquirer ( edited by James Gordon Bennett and Colonel Watson Webb respectively ) : both papers attacked CD in the most scurrilous fashion after his speeches calling for an International Copyright Agreement . |
| 16 | His proposal called for a total of $7,900 million to be spent on increased law enforcement , more prisons , border patrols , education programmes , treatment programmes , and aid to foreign countries . |
| 17 | ‘ True , she is his partner , she helps him , and when his body calls for lust , she is there for him , but I would not say she is a prime concern in his life . ’ |
| 18 | Or perhaps he was quite mistaken , and what his nature called for was both . |
| 19 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 20 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 21 | Mr Murray set about to counteract any ill feeling towards government radio policies by arranging a nation-wide tour of all ‘ trouble spots ’ , and his schedule called for a visit to Moose Jaw during the second week of February , 1936 . |
| 22 | The conference supported his motion calling for regional and district councils to be retained in the Highlands . |
| 23 | Every day the diary had to be filled ; an important day-to-day record of garden affairs was imperative for his writing and current Work for his publishers called for continued attention , because throughout his long life editions of the Dictionary and the Abridgement needed revision and extension . |
| 24 | Wei had already become well-known for his outspokenness and his document calling for the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ was circulated widely . |
| 25 | His regime calls for great personal reverence for himself , as Life President and elder and brooks no serious dissent on grounds of personality or policy . |
| 26 | Wherever your plans call for light , space and shape , Clear Span have the experience and the skills to turn the design into sparkling Reality . |
| 27 | The full moon 's appearance in your sign calls for changes to be made in your personal life . |
| 28 | Hourcade condemned it as un-French : ‘ our tradition calls for a subject and the originality of Cubism lies precisely in its rejection of the anecdote in order to rediscover the subject ’ ; and he repudiated the idea that all the painters of the Section d'Or had renounced natural appearances : ‘ … it is absolutely false to say that all these painters are turning their backs on nature and want only to produce pure painting . ’ |