Example sentences of "[pron] have called for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A quarter of the vote in the North went to the Lombard League , which has called for the establishment of an independent north Italian state unless Rome puts its house in order . |
| 2 | In the late 1960s , Ceauşescu himself had called for a strengthening of the traditional family , but when that failed to have the desired effect of boosting the birth-rate , the regime reversed its direction from promoting old-fashioned morality as a stimulus to conception . |
| 3 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 4 | The proposals fall short of demands made by Scottish Natural Heritage and environment groups , which have called for a ban on tanker traffic in the Fair Isle Straits . |
| 5 | The ecologists ' leader Brice Lalonde , who has called for a broad-based ‘ Democratic Party ’ , welcomed Mr Rocard 's speech as the first admission by a top Socialist that the party was finished . |
| 6 | In July the authorities arrested two leading opponents of the government , Charles Rubia and Kenneth Matiba , who had called for a referendum on the future of one-party rule ; in subsequent protest riots 20 people died [ see p. 37603 ] . |
| 7 | The chair of the Campaign for Democracy , Beko Ransome-Kuti , who had called for a campaign of civil disobedience in the New Year if Babangida did not leave office , was arrested on Dec. 31 and detained for a number of days . |
| 8 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 9 | Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi remained closed from the beginning of May following the issuing of a " death sentence " by Moslem fundamentalist students against the pro-Vice-Chancellor , Professor Mushirul Hasan , who had called for the lifting of the ban , in force since October 1988 on the grounds of blasphemy , on the Indian-born British novelist Salman Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see p 36450 ] . |
| 10 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 11 | Prudhoe , who had called for the original cross , could only tip the ball on to the bar and McCarthy headed the rebound home . |
| 12 | We have called for an inquiry by Speaker Betty Boothroyd . |
| 13 | They 've called for the gradual introduction of tax increases balanced by a reduction in interest rates . |
| 14 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 15 | They have called for the removal of dangerous waste dumped in the White and Barents Seas , which , according to the news agency Tass , " have been turned into a pool for radioactive waste " . |
| 16 | Instead they have called for the diversion of subsidies paid to the nuclear power industry--one of the reasons why coal-based electricity is " uncompetitive " --to the development and improvement of technologies which burn coal more efficiently and more cleanly . |
| 17 | He has called for the removal of all foreign troops and bases in Europe . |
| 18 | He has called for the compulsory registration of all property transactions in an attempt to stop the use of secret deals . |
| 19 | It has called for a global convention outlawing all toxic waste trade schemes — and it needs your support . |
| 20 | It had called for a slowing down of market-oriented economic reforms . |