Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] call [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Co-ordination Committee of Opposition Groups called for a day of civil disobedience on April 15 and for a general strike — " Operation dead cities " — on April 18 and 19 , which appeared to be widely observed . |
| 2 | The research publication calls on a number of representative bodies , including the London Stock Exchange , the Financial Reporting Council , the ASB , the Urgent Issues Task Force and the Auditing Practices Board , to consider how they should respond to environmental issues . |
| 3 | Your rhythm style calls for a great deal of aggressive down-stroke picking … |
| 4 | In August 1988 both sides had agreed in principle to a UN peace plan calling for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners and to a referendum designed to give the inhabitants of the territory ( administered as a Spanish colony until 1976 ) a choice between independence or integration into Morocco . |
| 5 | Libel damages call for a metaphysical evaluation of dignity , a compensation , in many cases , for loss of amour propre which may be higher than the courts would award for the loss of an arm or a leg . |
| 6 | As we have said , if your let-down procedure calls for a final descent rate of 800 ft/min , there is no time for trial and error . |
| 7 | Owners of transport companies called off a nation-wide strike on Nov. 13 after six days of widespread disruption affecting bus , train and taxi services . |
| 8 | Bypass go-ahead at last but pressure group favours rail link The long-awaited Guisborough bypass was officially given the go-ahead by Cleveland county council on Tuesday just as a transport group called for a re-think on the multi-million pound scheme . |
| 9 | The use of a new computer software distribution program calls for a reduction in manpower from three to two in the traffic clerks ' office . |
| 10 | Several British supermarket chains have asked their suppliers to stop using fish which comes from the Faroe islands , after the Environmental Investigation Agency called for a boycott of Faroese products in protest at the annual killing of pilot whales . |
| 11 | The relevance of this variant comes earlier in the poem whose opening stanzas call for a painting of Ariadne deserted on Naxos . |
| 12 | Shaikh Jabir called for a united front , adding that Iraq had sought wrongfully to exploit the differences arising from " the endeavours and efforts of some Kuwaiti activists to organise the Kuwaiti state " . |
| 13 | The national radio , Voix du Zaïre , reported that in Kinshasa on April 10 a peaceful student demonstration calling for a national conference had been dispersed by troops using tear gas . |
| 14 | In his address on Nov. 2 the FIS leader Abbasi Madani called for a jihad ( " holy war " ) if " there [ was ] any procrastination in holding these elections " . |
| 15 | A student union called for a one-day strike at local colleges . |
| 16 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 17 | The Consumer Congress called for a working party to draft a code of good practice and it was intended that working party should make use of the information generated by the 1988 transport workshop , whose discussions were reported to the congress . |
| 18 | On 4th , May 1926 , the Trades Union Council called for a General Strike in support or striking coal miners . |
| 19 | In order to ensure a more appropriate distribution across the states of production , prices and a rational pattern of modernisation , the treaty schedule called for a five-year transitional period of two distinct stages . |
| 20 | Last summer he suggested that the appalling state of government finances called for a fundamental reassessment of the way it spends £250 billion a year of taxpayers ' money . |
| 21 | Babcock felt MacArthur would probably approve a treaty clause calling for a re-examination of Japan 's security situation five or ten years after signature of the treaty . |
| 22 | The competition brief called for a tower to act primarily as a landmark . |
| 23 | The trend now is to avoid taking children 's tonsils out , but the Lancet report calls for a review of this policy in the cases of children who are severely affected by snoring . |
| 24 | In the report CNP calls for a number of proposals including — abandoning the 1998 deadline for renewable energy subsidies ; enabling grants to run for 15 years from the start of any one project ; issuing planning policy guidance on how to deal with planning applications , and giving encouragement to offshore wind generation which they claim could provide 50% of energy needs . |
| 25 | Last week NATO 's defence ministers called for a halt to cuts in defence spending , lest they undermine the cohesion of the alliance . |
| 26 | When the Berlin Wall was built in 1961 and the first killings began , one might have expected these siren voices calling for a third way to fall silent . |
| 27 | This coalition must hold together in the post-war settlement and resist the siren voices calling for a huge re-arming of the region . |
| 28 | The council 's draft structure plan calls for a " setback " line at least 75 metres from the shore . |
| 29 | Rod Richards , the Tory MP for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
| 30 | Rod Richards , the Tory Member for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |