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

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1 Indeed , it was usual practice where the land was already registered , and buyers ' conveyancers would call for proof of title at the outset of a new conveyancing transaction .
2 Restoring old frames can call for specialist help , but nevertheless there are several techniques that can be practised at home .
3 I 'd call for liquor of the best
4 Her pleas that determinism need not imply hostility ( ’ it can instead call for cooperation ’ ) , and that the novelist was really both behind and ahead of his time in scientific terms , are scarcely compelling .
5 Whenever there was trouble beyond their capacity to snuff out , they could call for air support from Khormaksa , the RAF base at Aden .
6 There are others , many of which do not call for creativity .
7 Political equality does not call for standardisation .
8 Should he call for help ?
9 The real value of a key deposited with a neighbour comes when you are ill or incapacitated and can only call for help or reach the phone , but not reach the front door .
10 There was no way they could call for help if any of them fell ill .
11 He can swing a punch , which would give me pleasure , or he can call for help , which will give me warning , or , as he is doing , he can cower against the wall .
12 ‘ Please go , ’ Alexandra said , fielding the lion as he plunged at her , ‘ I 'll call for help if I need it .
13 She was murdered before she could call for help .
14 He explains how he felt a tingling sensation down his left-hand side but did not immediately call for help .
15 I remember saying that there were dangerous days ahead which would call for faithfulness and courage , quoting the text from the Psalms : ‘ He will not be afraid of any evil tidings , for his heart standeth fast in the Lord . ’
16 He repeated that the Action Committee should call for change .
17 ‘ Mrs. Bihi and the party she represents do not call for payment out to them of the sum presently in court .
18 Tory unease over the poll tax will surface at the party conference tomorrow when delegates will call for government cash to fund the ‘ safety net ’ .
19 For the purpose of making a haulage contract , an offer may call for acceptance of the haulage services on offer by another promise or by conduct .
20 I think this does call for explanation .
21 But they do call for explanation .
22 And there 's a number you can call for energy advice .
23 The pragmatist may say : judges decide on pragmatic grounds all the time , and the people do not revolt or call for impeachment .
24 Since a measure 's legal basis in the Treaty of Rome can influence the voting rules applied in the Council , legal disputes on such matters may call for resolution by the European Court .
25 This latter group of people will inevitably form the great majority , and it is mainly they who will provide the justification for the establishment of a clergy for the ‘ Alternative Religion ’ , and it is they who will prefer to put their faith in carefully chosen leaders , possibly elected from among the others , and on whom they can call for guidance .
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