Example sentences of "have call on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail has called on four rail unions to agree plans to limit excessive overtime worked by signals and telecommunications engineers as part of a radical review of pay and working conditions following the disaster . |
| 2 | Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , has called on other trade unionists to take action today to defend the coal industry , which is being run down despite the Government 's rescue package reprieving 12 of the original 31 pits earmarked for closure . |
| 3 | Outraged Tory Peter Jones has called on fellow borough councillors to ban on the exhibition which is set to go on display at the town 's Arts Centre . |
| 4 | PREMIER John Major is so worried this weekend 's EC summit will end in disaster he has called on bitter enemy Francois Mitterrand for help . |
| 5 | Now he has called on British Rail for a second time to step up safety and end the easy access to the East Coast main line . |
| 6 | Tim Hurren , the Liberal Democrats ' prospective Parliamentary candidate for Harrogate , has called on British Rail to electrify the Leeds , Harrogate , York line following the start of work between Skipton and Ilkley . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , Delyn MP David Hanson has called on British Coal to withdraw the advance redundancy notices sent out to workers at the 31 pits listed for closure . |
| 8 | The smaller undertakings generally had possessed only weakly-developed sales functions , and they had sometimes had to call on outside expertise . |
| 9 | If his father had n't been so bloody-minded and had let him use the family car , he would no doubt have gone down alone and come back next day , having called on some estate agent in Hadleigh or Sudbury and asked them to sell the house for him , the very one probably that he had gone to in the following year . |
| 10 | The opposition Udzima ( Union for Progress ) and the National Union for Democracy in the Comoros ( UNDC ) had called on other opposition parties to join a boycott , protesting at the government 's failure to update voting lists , as well as the detention of some opposition figures , " the terror exercised by the army and the financial scandal involving President Said Mohammed Djohar " . |
| 11 | Friends of the Earth have called on FKI plc to launch a full investigation . |