Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] call for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was scenes like this that prompted the MP for Hereford to call for a review of flood defences . |
| 2 | During the debate speaker after speaker called for a return to the Thatcherite economics of a decade ago . |
| 3 | SUPPORT for Britain 's coal industry came last night from an unexpected quarter as the right wing pressure group Aims of Industry called for a wide ranging review . |
| 4 | In the face of opposition calls for a boycott , and reports of widespread apathy among the electorate , the Interior Ministry announced on Sept. 5 that a 99.96 per cent " yes " vote had been achieved in the previous day 's referendum on proposed constitutional changes . |
| 5 | — Brenda Binge of Burnley calling for a ban on acid house parties ‘ I went to Oxford University , but I 've never let it hold me back . ’ |
| 6 | The Governor of the Bank of England called for a slow-down on 22 October 1991 . |
| 7 | The June 6 edition of the East Jerusalem daily Al-Fajr carried articles from a number of Palestinians calling for a re-evaluation of the intifada . |
| 8 | Some 200 people in possession of pamphlets calling for a multiparty political system were reported to have been arrested in recent weeks around the country ; the human rights organization Amnesty International said that many people working in companies with facsimile transmission machines capable of receiving opposition literature printed abroad were among those detained . |
| 9 | He joined the ever-growing group of people calling for a change in the law . |
| 10 | President Alan Gacia of Peru called for a planned summit on February 15 with President Bush to discuss drugs to be ‘ deferred ’ because of the invasion . |
| 11 | A low degree of certainty calls for a low structure . |
| 12 | Members of Halton Friends of the Earth have been urging people in Runcorn to call for a public inquiry into ICI 's plan for an incinerator there . |
| 13 | Faced with such evidence , supermarkets are clamouring for information to label their goods ’ environmentally sound ’ , and there is an Early Day Motion in Parliament calling for a ’ chlorine free ’ paper industry ( Sweden already makes 95% of its soft paper without the aid of chlorine ) . |
| 14 | It was a view which in essence called for a confederal or intergovernmental mould , rather closer perhaps to the British stand than to the vision of Monnet or Spaak . |
| 15 | * The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds has launched a report in Brussels calling for a radical overhaul of the Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 16 | The local parliament in Sevastopol called for a political settlement and said the row strengthened its resolve to seek complete autonomy for Crimea . |
| 17 | As a consequence , petitions flowed in to the National Assembly from all the local councils in France calling for a constitutional revision , but the majority in the Assembly rejected the appeals . |
| 18 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
| 19 | Before the General Election there had been some talk of revising Crime Has No Boundaries , after Quintin Hogg had written to Heath calling for a ‘ refurbishment ’ of policies towards crime . |
| 20 | Mr Gould failed to back calls for a referendum . |
| 21 | How strong this support will prove to be in the last analysis remains to be seen , but Labour 's treatment of Mr Gould and its refusal to back calls for a referendum on the Treaty suggest that any hopes of altering the movement towards European Federalism remain with the Conservative Party . |
| 22 | NEWSAGENTS will today be urged to back calls for a change in the law to protect them from becoming innocent victims of the law which prevents tobacco being sold to under-age youngsters . |
| 23 | And , as yet , we have seen no reason to suppose that the need for explanation calls for a prior epistemology . |
| 24 | ‘ It was my responsibility as a project to establish the whole thing , ’ he said proudly , adding that his work at Newcastle called for a very broad range of expertise . |