Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] calling for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bosnian deputies have given themselves a let-out by calling for a referendum on the peace plan on May 15th and 16th . |
| 2 | Pressure to move to a policy of electoral reform is certain to grow , and the Left is expected to line up behind Mr Gould by calling for a radical rethink of economic policy . |
| 3 | Tory rebels believe they have found a legal way of spoking the wheels of the bill 's passage by calling for a judicial review of the constitutional implications of the European Communities ( Amendment ) Bill , which today enters its 18th day in the Commons . |
| 4 | Already Teresa Gorman MP has supported TODAY 's campaign by calling for an automatic life sentence for rape . |
| 5 | But they refuse to follow the flock in calling for the return of the death penalty and reject the idea that the killers on the street , the people with the knives , are inherently evil . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The former Home Secretary took common ground with Mrs Thatcher in opposing a Brussels-dominated and economically illiberal ‘ Fortress Europe ’ and went much further than Mr Lawson or the pro-European cabinet majority in calling for a central bank on the looser American rather than Bundesbank model . |
| 8 | An 1896 commission by the Department of the Interior joined the National Academy of Sciences in calling for a doubling of these reserves , a proposal vigorously resisted by the timber industry . |
| 9 | They 've joined councillors and regular book borrowers in calling for a better-funded and better-used service . |
| 10 | Similarly he anticipated Dimitrov in calling for a new approach to the middle classes . |
| 11 | The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet has joined Greenpeace in calling for the project to be halted . |
| 12 | For over a decade the medical and nursing professions in Britain have taken a leading role in calling for a clearer national commitment to tackling social inequalities in health . |
| 13 | Although Egypt offered its full support to Iraq , it still managed to assert its role as a regional moderator and as the main link between the Arab states , Israel and the West ; thus , during a visit to Baghdad on April 7 , Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak widened the debate by calling for the mass elimination of all weapons of mass destruction . |
| 14 | Moderate Sunni Moslem organizations in Turkey and Indonesia joined militant Shia opponents of the Saudi regime in Lebanon and Iran in calling for an international team to investigate the incident . |
| 15 | We joined environmental organisations across Europe in calling for a vastly enhanced programme of ‘ agri-environment ’ measures under the reformed Common Agricultural Policy when European Agriculture Ministers met in Cambridge in September under the UK Presidency of the EC . |
| 16 | In 1621 he showed that he could rise above class interests by calling for an abatement of rents during the depression and the exemption of the poor from taxation . |
| 17 | THE five presidents of Central America kept the beleaguered regional peace process alive yesterday with an agreement that bolstered the governments of Nicaragua and El Salvador by calling for the demobilisation of rebel forces in both countries . |
| 18 | Iraq , meanwhile , attempted to take advantage of the presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia by calling for a holy war , or Jihad , against King Fahd in order to protect the two holy cities of Mecca and Medina from " infidel " ( non-Moslem ) forces . |
| 19 | As well as devoting attention to the management of the war economy , it had by July 1942 produced a broadsheet , Planning for Social Security , which substantially anticipated the Beveridge report in calling for a national minimum income , universal family allowances , a national health service and a Ministry of Social Security . |
| 20 | What the report should try to do is to appear to offer an improvement in existing facilities and support to teachers and pupils without calling for a dramatic reorganization of timetables , syllabi or teaching methods . |
| 21 | The conference ended on a note of renewed militancy by calling for a " mass action " campaign in 1991 in favour of an interim government , a constituent assembly and the abolition of the tricameral Parliament ( which had separate chambers for whites , coloureds and Indians , and none for blacks ) . |
| 22 | In a letter to Peter Brooke , Secretary of State at the Department of National Heritage , the Council for the protection of Rural England and the Council for British Archaeology have joined their voices to that of the National Trust in calling for a public review of the new strategy . |
| 23 | Far from suggesting that the two sides were moving towards a new spirit of co-operation , the diplomats said they were a long way from calling for a ceasefire . |
| 24 | For Labour , accommodation to the changing mood meant adopting the essentially green idea of assessing the environmental costs of growth and working them into the balance sheets ( which the Tories are also adopting ) , but it did not mean following the Greens in calling for a halt to growth . |
| 25 | Amer Midani , United 's second largest shareholder , had apparently annoyed Edwards last weekend by calling for the public flotation of the shares . |
| 26 | In May 1991 Lafleur , leader of the RPCR and president of the South province , threw his support behind the idea by calling for a " consensual solution " to the future status of the territory to be adopted prior to 1998 . |
| 27 | THE Australian Prime Minister has tried to revive his party 's support ahead of next month 's general election by calling for the replacement of the Queen as head of state . |
| 28 | Last month , Mr Rocard caused a great frisson of excitement to run through the deeply-dejected Socialist ranks by calling for a political ‘ big bang ’ to allow the creation of a new centre left movement consisting of progressive-minded Communists , Ecologists , Centrists and what remained of the Socialists . |
| 29 | We ask for help in our task of calling for an end to the executions and the release of all political prisoners . |
| 30 | Opposition parties of both the right and left joined with the unions in calling for an independent inquiry into the Fez incidents . |