Example sentences of "[noun] has call for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JAPANESE Emperor Akihito has called for closer cultural ties between Japan and the European Community . |
| 2 | SCOTTISH Natural Heritage has called for all ships carrying hazardous cargo to be banned from the Minches and Fair Isle Channel . |
| 3 | The parliament has called for other EC countries to follow the Dutch lead . |
| 4 | A Countryside Commission review has called for wide-ranging reforms to protect the 10 national parks of England and Wales from the growing threats of development and tourism . |
| 5 | The two countries ' joint forestry committee has called for retaliatory action , including a ban on imports of certain EC products , to be taken by the forthcoming meeting of economic ministers of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) . |
| 6 | Although much recent work ( Maos , 1983 , 47 ) confirms that ‘ the efficiency of services is higher in concentrated settlement patterns and can be further improved by the transfer of service functions from lower to higher ranking centres ’ , some recent work has called for less emphasis to be placed on the economic evaluation of service provision . |
| 7 | The Institute has called for new pensions legislation to be introduced , with limitations on the use of pension fund surpluses , and new accounting and auditing requirements . |
| 8 | The International Stock Exchange has called for more time to implement the changes but so far it has had little success . |
| 9 | WHILE most British eyes have been on the election of a new Westminster parliament , a 500-member pensioner 's parliament from all 12 countries of the European Community has called for better pensions throughout the EC . |
| 10 | The World Wide Fund for Nature has called for tougher safeguards to protect Britain 's remaining natural forests . |
| 11 | In his first public speech as EC Environment Commissioner , Karel van Miert has called for common environmental norms to be applied across the EC , with a view to maintaining environmental standards without infringing the Community 's commitment to free trade between member states . |
| 12 | A coroner has called for tighter security at a psychiatric hospital , after a patient walked out of a locked ward and was killed by a train on nearby railway tracks . |
| 13 | A coroner has called for tougher safety standards for child car seats following the death of baby twin brothers in a road accident . |
| 14 | The all-party Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has called for stricter regulations to prevent pollution by oil and chemical spills at sea . |
| 15 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has called for tougher controls on pollution caused by diesel engines of lorries , buses and coaches . |
| 16 | The World Health Organisation has called for individual developing countries to commit themselves to decade programmes . |
| 17 | The organisation has called for international pressure to be brought to end the trade in South Korea , Taiwan , China and Thailand , where horn is sold openly . |
| 18 | The former U.S. President Ronald Reagan has called for military intervention by NATO to end the fighting in Bosnia . |
| 19 | On this occasion , devising a pretext for attacking the auditors has called for some ingenuity . |
| 20 | A COUNCILLOR has called for stricter planning controls to be imposed on house builders . |
| 21 | The Australian RSPCA has called for immediate reforms to animal protection laws after discovering 10,000 sheep had starved to death on a farm in south-western New South Wales . |
| 22 | Amid growing public debate in France over the question of what to do with the country 's nuclear waste , a parliamentary report has called for major changes in the state nuclear waste agency , ANDRA ( Agence nationale pour la gestion des déchets radioactifs ) . |
| 23 | AN MP has called for immediate action to stop finance companies using ‘ blatant political scare tactics ’ in a bid to drum up business . |
| 24 | AN MP has called for improved security at a school following a spate of vandalism . |
| 25 | An MP has called for judicial thrashing and the return of the stocks to combat juvenile crime . |
| 26 | SHELTER has called for urgent legislation to protect people buying their homes on ‘ rental purchase ’ — a form of credit . |
| 27 | LEADING lung cancer specialist Ray Donnelly has called for more cash to wipe out the disease which kills 1,600 Merseysiders every year . |
| 28 | Norway 's Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland has called for tough carbon taxes to protect the global environment at the biennial Offshore Northern Seas oil and gas conference in Stavanger . |