Example sentences of "the [noun] call for an " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for why , this interrogative adverb evokes the reasons calling for an action and , like how , leaves their precise nature undefined . |
| 2 | Under the title Strategic Force for the 1990s and beyond , and drawn up by army chief of staff General Carl Vuono , the plan calls for an entire army corps to be withdrawn from Europe , and for the US Army to be cut from 764,000 men to 630,000 . |
| 3 | The committee called for an increased R&D effort and a more imaginative approach to research from government ( Hew Scientist , 10 March , p 634 ) . |
| 4 | A political statement released by the PNC at the end of the session called for an international conference on the Middle East , under UN supervision , to be convened on the basis of UN Security Council Resolutions 242 ( 1967 — see pp. 22473 ; 25029 ; 34898 ) and 338 ( 1973 — see p. 26197 ) , and the guaranteeing of the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people , of which the most important was " the right to self-determination " . |
| 5 | The PPP called for an independent inquiry to clear the damage to its reputation caused by assertions that the hijackers were members of Al Zulfiqar , an armed resistance group with PPP connections which had operated in the 1980s and was involved in a hijacking in 1981 [ see pp. 31071-72 ] . |
| 6 | The delegates called for an end to workers being sacked just because they were sick or injured . |
| 7 | The petition called for an open public inquiry into the grounding of the tanker in January , strict tanker exclusion zones and improved ship monitoring and standards . |
| 8 | In the Costa Rica talks the government called for an immediate cessation of hostilities on both sides and the total demobilization of all FMLN forces before reforms and the integration of the FMLN into political life could begin . |
| 9 | At its third emergency meeting on Yugoslavia in Prague on Sept. 3-4 the CSCE called for an embargo on weapons and war equipment against all parties in the conflict . |
| 10 | Citizens ' action groups protested at the environmental damage caused by NATO manoeuvres and , in August 1989 , the SPD called for an end to the special rights and privileges enjoyed by the allied forces . |