Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb pp] for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Khasbulatov accused the president of attempting a coup and called for an emergency session of the Congress to dismiss him . |
| 2 | The Halifax said prices dropped 1.2pc last month and called for an immediate 2pc interest rate cut and ‘ specific ’ Government measures to stimulate the housing market . |
| 3 | But the National Union of Students rejected the authority 's report and called for an independent inquiry . |
| 4 | Subsequently , the government responded to public pressure and provided for an elected single-purpose authority to take responsibility for the ILEA ( see below ) . |
| 5 | Or , in the case of J.D. Bernal ( The World , the Flesh and the Devil ) and J.B.S. Haldane ( Daedalus or Science and the Future ) quietly buried by the day to day routine of political activism and filed for an undefined future . |
| 6 | The two largest union federations , Turk-Is and Hak-Is , which organized the strike , demanded an increase of 500 per cent in workers ' pay and called for an end to restrictive labour laws . |
| 7 | She was driven several miles to a secluded country spot and assaulted for an hour . |
| 8 | Early Comintern documents on Latin America — authorship unknown — had explicitly denied the applicability of the national-democratic stage and called for an agrarian , anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist revolution . |