Example sentences of "[vb base] call for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the next council meeting on January 3 the Liberal Democrats intend to call for the resignation of the three — Price , the council leader Clive Betts , and Mrs J C Barton , chairman of the education committee , all Labour members — on the grounds of conflict of interest . |
| 2 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 3 | French farmers have called for a ban on imports . |
| 4 | The proposals fall short of demands made by Scottish Natural Heritage and environment groups , which have called for a ban on tanker traffic in the Fair Isle Straits . |
| 5 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 6 | Twenty leading British scientists have called for a change in Government to reverse what they call a dramatic decline in the standard of British scientific research . |
| 7 | Other strikes ( notably among Warsaw 's transport workers ) have called for a loosening of the government 's tight monetary policy and an end to wage control . |
| 8 | Animal rights groups have called for a tourism boycott in protest against the plan . |
| 9 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 10 | Councillors have called for a report on a perks package which eases the burden of moving home . |
| 11 | Some have called for a boycott of the elections , but most are likely to back the faction of the Akali Dal , the Sikh political party , led by a former police officer , Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 12 | Two German consumer groups have called for a boycott of the controversial " Duales System Deutschland " recycling scheme [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 13 | They are opposed to any implicit encouragement of companies who currently import non-sustainable supplies , and have called for a boycott of leading UK " D-I-Y " stores [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 14 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 15 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 16 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature and other conservation groups have called for a simplification of this network . |
| 17 | DOCTORS ' leaders in the region have called for a review of the prescription charge system after the Government 's announcement that fees are to increase by 50p in April . |
| 18 | For decades people have opposed the use of this trap on grounds of its cruelty , and among those who have done so many have called for the development and utilisation of what are called ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping . |
| 19 | PRISON officers have called for the reopening of the special segregation unit in Inverness , called ‘ the Cages ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 21 | They have called for the removal of dangerous waste dumped in the White and Barents Seas , which , according to the news agency Tass , " have been turned into a pool for radioactive waste " . |
| 22 | Speakers at a rally this afternoon have called for the release of hundreds of prisoners they claim are innocent . |
| 23 | THE parents of a little boy whose nose was almost bitten off by an alsatian have called for the breed to be added to the dangerous dogs list . |
| 24 | UNIONISTS in Belfast have called for the SAS to take out known republican terrorists . |
| 25 | The way that many politicians and others have called for the teaching of " facts " and wish to throw out all matters relating to " mere opinion " such as environmental concerns , shows how unaware many people are that there is any problem with regard to the reliability of facts or the possibility of there being evidence supporting beliefs and values . |
| 26 | Others have called for the enactment of a bill of rights . |
| 27 | " There are some places in the Adriatic where marine life at the sea bottom has been completely wiped out " , says Civilis. * Ecologists gathered in Nice have called for the creation of an " international reserve of the western Mediterranean " , aimed in particular at protecting marine life from over-fishing , notably by the use of driftnets . |
| 28 | Union representatives at the plant have called for the reconvening of a meeting with the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , whom they met last Friday in an attempt to win government backing for their fight against the redundancies . |
| 29 | But other commentators have called for the introduction of planning controls over farming operations and have branded the changes as the ‘ theft of the countryside ’ ( Shoard , 1980 ) . |
| 30 | American biologists have called for the establishment of a network of " trained amateurs " drawn from local populations to help tap potential medical resources of tropical forests . |