Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] call for a " in BNC.

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1 During the debate speaker after speaker called for a return to the Thatcherite economics of a decade ago .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A low degree of certainty calls for a low structure .
5 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 The local parliament in Sevastopol called for a political settlement and said the row strengthened its resolve to seek complete autonomy for Crimea .
8 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 .
9 Mr Gould failed to back calls for a referendum .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 And , as yet , we have seen no reason to suppose that the need for explanation calls for a prior epistemology .
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