Example sentences of "[verb] be calling for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For years , people have been calling for sixth form studies to be broadened and updated , but now the pressures for change have become urgent . |
| 4 | Or was he merely seeking to confuse people in the West who have been calling for military intervention ? |
| 5 | Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms . |