Example sentences of "that called for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the issues that called for more profound thought than usual was the direction United Biscuits should take after its products had come to command the lion 's share of the market and could n't be expected to squeeze out many more sales . |
| 2 | These were films that had been grafted onto the Gaumont-British production programme , rather than emerging out of the script department as projects with potential that called for higher expenditure . |
| 3 | They based the Alliance 's first ‘ Force Goals ’ upon outdated concepts that called for the deployment of very large conventional forces by the Alliance . |
| 4 | John Taylor claims that a report he wrote that called for improvements was not acted on and research was stopped . |
| 5 | Mr Paine , I feel sure , will be a candidate for some award or other and I trust he will remember the couple whose bravery obviously far exceeded that called for in the normal course of duty . |
| 6 | The Retreat had been built in neo-classical style : twelve marble pillars rising to support a dome that called for decoration , but had none . |
| 7 | The original fade-out provisions that called for progressive expropriation of foreign firms have gone ; and the attempt to create cooperative ‘ regional multi-nationals ’ on the basis of a division of labour and specialisation was abandoned in 1982 . |
| 8 | Once upon a time , say until the late 1960s , advertising and public relations were skills that called for good writing ability , a flair for commerce , art talents , a large degree of personal charm and verbal fluency , and a sociable nature . |
| 9 | Several years ago , when General Motors reached agreement on a contract with the United Auto Workers that called for a new relationship based on cooperation and shared sacrifice , and then , on the same day , announced a new formula for generous executive bonuses , long-time union members simply nodded to themselves . |
| 10 | In the period since the Second World War , political stability , economic growth , and a broad societal consensus , meant that the constitution as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , were all seen as of one , pulling together in mutual support in a way that called for " no change " . |
| 11 | Simply expressed , the set-up as it was , as it was said to be , and as it was said it should be , had all pulled apart in a way that called for change . |
| 12 | is Above all , he was seen by the young Nietzsche as the proponent of a total philosophy , a vision of life that called for a personal , not merely an intellectual , commitment — a vision that stimulated , and even promised to satisfy , the yearning to be a personal whole attuned to the ultimate values , or non-values , of life . |
| 13 | He thought that called for a reaction . |
| 14 | They also adopted a political declaration that called for a socialist and ‘ planned-market ’ economy instead of President Boris Yeltsin 's free-market reforms . |