Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] call for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But English Heritage has called for a thorough feasibility study before the third application is determined . |
| 2 | The parliament has called for a more rational approach to trade and aid schemes as well as investigation into the EC 's role in granting funds in certain cases . |
| 3 | However , the parliament has called for an investigation into how this particular project came to be funded . |
| 4 | The Economist has called for a bill of rights as a bulwark against what Lord Hailsham once described as an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ . |
| 5 | At a conference of the Prison Officers ' Association , their leader , John Bartell has called for a halt on the Government 's privatisation of the prison service . |
| 6 | Although he insists there will be no change in France 's basic strategy , President Mitterrand has called for a national debate on defence . |
| 7 | The document has caused a political storm and Labour has called for a statement from Mr Major . |
| 8 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 9 | The British actors ' union Equity had called for a halt to Australian TV actors appearing in British pantomimes . |
| 10 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 11 | The family of a remand prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for a public inquiry after an inquest reached a suicide verdict . |
| 12 | The European Parliament 's Transport Committee has called for a 40 per cent cut in carbon dioxide by the year 2010 — a far more ambitious figure than the Community 's official target of a freeze at 1990 levels by 2000 . |
| 13 | Wirral housing committee has called for an urgent meeting with housing minister Sir George Young . |
| 14 | AN AMBULANCEMEN has called for a man who rescued a youth from mountainous seas yesterday to be given a bravery award . |
| 15 | A SCOTTISH fishing boss has called for a Europe-wide boycott of cheap fish to stop non-EC states destroying the fishing industry . |
| 16 | The UN protection force , Unprofor , and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees had called for an air corridor after reports that refugees in Srebrenica were dying at a rate of 20 a day from exposure and starvation . |
| 17 | The UN has called for a ban on drift nets worldwide by 1992 , and in the South Pacific by 1991 . |
| 18 | The recently-formed Bootle Miners Support Group has called for a lobby of Gladstone Dock tomorrow lunchtime . |
| 19 | As the fatal accident inquiry gets underway , a leading academic has called for a dramatic change in the attitude of the government and courts towards Scotland 's drug users . |
| 20 | Margaret Anne Doody has called for a new edition of Leapor 's poetry . |
| 21 | Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants . |
| 22 | The FSLN and FNT had called for a nationwide campaign of civil disobedience against the austerity measures , urging the population to refuse to pay increased electricity and water prices , to occupy state companies targeted for privatization , and to support a 24-hour general strike on Oct. 1 . |
| 23 | Spearheaded by the OOA ( Organization for Information about Nuclear Power ) , 800,000 newspapers were distributed and 170,000 petition signatures collected calling for a postponement of the decision . |
| 24 | Pressure group The Forum of Private Businesses has called for a radical change in the legal structure of small firms . |
| 25 | With the publication of the terms of Emancipation inflammatory pamphlets began to call for a mass uprising . |
| 26 | The District Attorney decided to call for a grand jury inquiry and invited Mitchum and the other defendants to attend . |
| 27 | Following the government 's announcement army veterans from the civil war in the south were reported to have staged a sit-in on the bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman , customs officers to have called for an all-out strike by civil servants " to put an end to the military regime " and tens of thousands of protesters to have taken to the streets of Omdurman on Feb. 9 . |
| 28 | Yeltsin had called for a " coalition government of national unity " comprising ministers nominated from each of the republics . |
| 29 | Garang had called for a constitutional conference , involving all political parties . |
| 30 | The intensified fighting at the end of April was apparently due to a report disseminated by Tanjug news agency on April 29 that the Bosnian leadership had called for a blockade of JNA forces in Bosnia-Hercegovina , and that Moslem forces had virtually declared war on the JNA . |