Example sentences of "[noun pl] have called for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |
| 2 | Pressure group The Forum of Private Businesses has called for a radical change in the legal structure of small firms . |
| 3 | Following the government 's announcement army veterans from the civil war in the south were reported to have staged a sit-in on the bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman , customs officers to have called for an all-out strike by civil servants " to put an end to the military regime " and tens of thousands of protesters to have taken to the streets of Omdurman on Feb. 9 . |
| 4 | On Jan. 4 miners ' leaders had called for a temporary halt to the march , after an offer by Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut to hold talks , but two days later the march was resumed after union leaders had rejected a government offer of a 250 per cent pay rise . |
| 5 | LABOUR councillors have called for a massive public demonstration to save Woodchurch swimming pool , amid fears it could be lost ‘ by stealth . ’ |
| 6 | Scientists have called for an urgent review of recently set government safety limits which are now thought to be inadequate . |
| 7 | Dr Andrei Sakharov and other leading radicals have called for a two-hour general strike on Monday to put pressure on the Congress of People 's Deputies , the country 's supreme legislative body . |
| 8 | Earlier reports on Sept. 7 and 10 had claimed that opposition groups had called for a popular revolt against Saddam Hussein , and had agreed on a plan for joint action , with plans for a government-in-exile composed of " various wings of the Iraqi opposition " . |
| 9 | Danish politicians and environmental groups had called for the permanent shutdown of the plant , not least because Sweden is already committed to phasing out nuclear power by 2010 . |
| 10 | The times had called for a certain mood but it was the genius of American cinema that it could harness the talents of actors and actresses whose every word and gesture rooted the films in the society for which they had been produced . |
| 11 | The demonstration 's organizers had called for a mass " anti-fascist " rally on June 22 ( the anniversary of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in the Second World War ) . |
| 12 | Prior to Gore 's entry into the affair , some 75 members of Congress and eight of the erstwhile hostages had called for a full inquiry . |
| 13 | WIRRAL Tories have called for a massive re-cycling drive to provide a realistic alternative to waste incineration . |