Example sentences of "[adj] and call [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Confederation of Caucasian Mountain Peoples ( a forum for Caucasus ethnic groups ) met in Tskhinvali on April 26 and called for a reassessment of relations with Russia . |
| 2 | The National Union of Public Employees said the way in which the board had acted was disgraceful and called for the resignation of all the members . |
| 3 | McAvennie disputed the fine and called on the Professional Footballer 's grievance procedures to voice his dissent . |
| 4 | On April 1 the Arab League deplored the passing of Resolution 748 and called on the international community to find a compromise solution which would avoid " dangerous consequences " . |
| 5 | A conference held by the two parties discussed the general election which was due in mid-1992 and called for an " independent , national body " to oversee it . |
| 6 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |
| 7 | Last year they faced uncertainty over their jobs when the Lewis 's group went bust and called in the receivers . |
| 8 | , Sarah ( 1672–1765 ) , poet , was born in Kent in 1672 , the daughter of James Dixon , a barrister originally of Rochester , Kent , who was admitted to the Middle Temple as a clerk on 20 May 1663 and called to the bar on 13 May 1670 , and his wife Elizabeth Soulhouse . |
| 9 | On June 25 President de Klerk had taken the unprecedented step of effectively declaring an official day of mourning , when he announced that the government would allow its employees to attend the funeral and " related mourning services " on June 29 and called on the private sector to do likewise . |
| 10 | The Assembly resolved , for the first time , to eliminate leprosy as a public health problem by the year 2000 and called on the 93 countries where leprosy was endemic " to further increase or maintain their political commitment " to leprosy control . |
| 11 | Gorbachev met with Yakovlev , Nazarbayev , Akayev and Yeltsin on Aug. 27 and called for the Union Treaty process to be renewed , threatening to resign at the Supreme Soviet in September if the uncontrolled dissolution of the Soviet Union continued . |
| 12 | While some in the establishment may be asking whether things are not going too far and calling for the floodgates to be closed , as the careers of powerful figures come to an end , the magistrates are determined to see the process through to its conclusion . |
| 13 | Pogodin addressed himself to the spectre of peasant unrest in April and May 1855 and called upon the government to allow freedom of expression . |
| 14 | Soviet Germans , about two million strong , established a new All-Union Society of Germans in early 1989 and called for the restoration of their autonomous republic , which had been abolished at the outbreak of the war in 1941 . |
| 15 | Opposition parties in a communiqué issued on July 8 , following a mass rally , denounced the National Council as fraudulent and called for a democratically elected body . |
| 16 | But after the hearing Mr Pratley 's family said they were not satisfied and called for a public inquiry . |