Example sentences of "[modal v] call for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Yes , I am ; and this should call for a little celebration . ’
2 W/Cpl Burns informs the Volkspoliqei that their request is outside the terms of the Agreement , and that if they want any details they must call for a Soviet officer , to whom the information will be given .
3 Different circumstances may call for a different approach , fine .
4 Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity .
5 The Dutch government is so concerned that at next week 's 103-nation conference in Lausanne of the Convention on Trade in Endangered Species ( Cites ) it will call for a total ban on trade in the plants .
6 The fact that entrepreneurship may be a step toward monopoly power will call for a new evaluation of both the allegedly harmful effects of monopoly and the reputedly beneficial effects of entrepreneurship .
7 He believes it will call for a fundamental rethink about the way that work is structured .
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