Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] call for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The United States on 2 November won a vote of 64 to 5 in support of its motion calling for a cease-fire . |
| 2 | Geoffrey Palmer , Prime Minister of New Zealand , promptly announced his intention to call for a global ban on drift-netting during his address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York in October . |
| 3 | His proposal called for a total of $7,900 million to be spent on increased law enforcement , more prisons , border patrols , education programmes , treatment programmes , and aid to foreign countries . |
| 4 | In order to show that a landlord is precluded from exercising his right to call for a rent review , the tenant must show that the lease or the rent review clause has been abrogated by mutual consent or that the landlord 's conduct has been such that he is estopped from exercising his right to a rent review ( Amherst v Walker ( James ) Goldsmith & Silversmith Ltd [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 1067 ) . |
| 5 | He issued the text of his decree calling for a nationwide vote of confidence , and it omitted any reference to the special powers he had claimed on Saturday during a televised address . |
| 6 | Mr Murray set about to counteract any ill feeling towards government radio policies by arranging a nation-wide tour of all ‘ trouble spots ’ , and his schedule called for a visit to Moose Jaw during the second week of February , 1936 . |
| 7 | Hourcade condemned it as un-French : ‘ our tradition calls for a subject and the originality of Cubism lies precisely in its rejection of the anecdote in order to rediscover the subject ’ ; and he repudiated the idea that all the painters of the Section d'Or had renounced natural appearances : ‘ … it is absolutely false to say that all these painters are turning their backs on nature and want only to produce pure painting . ’ |