Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] calling for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 13 a peaceful demonstration of students calling for the resignation of Ibrahim Babangida 's military regime degenerated into violence when police fired on the demonstrators with rubber bullets and live ammunition , killing at least seven people . |
| 2 | On Nov. 3 , the 60th anniversary of Student Day , 15,000 students staged another violent demonstration in Seoul calling for the resignation of Roh and for the repeal of the National Security Act ( NSA ) . |
| 3 | On Oct. 23 , during a demonstration in Mogadishu calling for the release of political prisoners and protesting against high food prices , two civilians and one policeman were killed and 36 civilians wounded following violent clashes between protesters and police . |
| 4 | It is with regret that we join the chorus of voices calling for the resignation of Jocelyn Stevens as chairman of Britain 's architectural and archaeological conservation body , English Heritage : any man so free of mealy-mouthed PR awareness as to tell a bothersome journalist to ‘ go and pee out of the window ’ is a true blue . |
| 5 | In January 1990 the Yugoslav federal presidency issued a proposal for a new constitution , along with an alternative proposal from Slovenia calling for the transformation of Yugoslavia into a confederation rather than a federal state . |
| 6 | The Government have received a number of representations calling for the reintroduction of executive detention . |
| 7 | In Scotland , the STUC will hold a demonstration outside Old St Andrew 's House in Edinburgh calling for the creation of real jobs and rejecting the concept of what it calls ‘ forced labour for the unemployed ’ , or workfare , as suggested recently by the Prime Minister , John Major . |