Example sentences of "[art] [noun] called for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaigners living near the base called for all flights to be suspended pending an investigation but a spokesman said operations would continue as normal . |
| 2 | ‘ Though that is true only up to a point — last year after the dog fox was killed on the road the vixen called for three nights , the saddest sound I ever heard . ’ |
| 3 | The storyline called for some expensive-sounding sequences , not the least being the burning of Rome , a galley ship foundering , and establishing shots of the Imperial capital . |
| 4 | Thus , to battle with the obstinate problem of unemployment , the President called for renewed spending on public works , and in 1935 a Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) was set up under Harry Hopkins . |
| 5 | He got together with Clyde Walcott , a happy refereeing choice for three Tests in England this summer between England and Pakistan , and they ruled that the rule called for 90 overs to be bowled every day , and the allowance for wickets would only be taken into account for fining purposes when each side 's overall rate was calculated at the end of the game . |
| 6 | Entitled the UN Operation for Mozambique ( Onumoz ) , the plan called for 7,500 UN troops to disarm an estimated 100,000 soldiers from the armies of the government and the MNR , and for the integration of portions of the two forces into a national army , as well as for the organization of multiparty elections scheduled for October 1993 . |
| 7 | The committee called for greater emphasis on language at all educational levels , with increased spending on staffing , accommodation and other resources . |
| 8 | The stewards called for quiet but , even to the brilliant Swede , the hole must have seemed distant and minute . |
| 9 | The conference called for mass action in support of a transitional government and for a constitutional assembly to negotiate the new constitution . |
| 10 | On Dec. 21 the Assembly called for special assistance for Chad ( Resolution 45/223 ) ; the front-line states ( Resolution 45/224 ) ; Mozambique ( Resolution 45/227 ) ; Djibouti ( Resolution 45/228 ) ; Benin , the Central African Republic and Madagascar ( Resolution 45/230 ) ; Angola ( Resolution 45/233 ) ; and emergency assistance for Liberia ( Resolution 45/232 ) and Somalia ( Resolution 45/229 ) . |
| 11 | The summit called for rapid completion or progress as regards investment services and insurance , intellectual property , takeovers , the liberalization of road transport as called for in a Dutch memorandum , the harmonization of animal and plant health standards , and the adoption by the end of 1990 of new value added tax and excise duty arrangements and of guidelines on trans-European transport networks . |
| 12 | Instead the government called for each council to appoint an officer responsible for reviewing the propriety and legality of council business who would be under statutory duty to report if an action or decision was likely to be improper or unlawful . |
| 13 | Before December 1979 there were already 7,000 Soviet military and civilian advisers in Afghanistan , but the government called for further Soviet support to suppress the domestic resistance . |
| 14 | Though the problem of radiation embrittlement has been recognised since the outset of the civil Magnox programme in the early 1960s , the inspectorate called for more evidence of the safety of Magnox plants in 1990 after it found the rate of embrittlement may have been faster than predicted . |
| 15 | While the leftists in the capital called for more development , on the ground the communities welcomed the expected bonanza from mining . |
| 16 | The report called for better police training and accountability , and suggested that Congress should grant the Attorney General power to seek injunctions against police forces which were persistently guilty of the excessive use of force . |
| 17 | The situation called for some drastic action and so I laid it on the line ; either they won this game or I would resign . |
| 18 | The crowd called for 5 and Town gave them what they wanted . |
| 19 | The survey called for new powers and responsibilities for the two schemes and a new body to oversee the ombudsmen 's work . |
| 20 | The left called for more nationalisation ; the ‘ traditional ’ right wing of the party argued that this ‘ needed more research ’ and conveniently forgot about it , while the new ‘ revisionist ’ current represented by Healey , Jenkins and Crosland saw public ownership as irrelevant and raised ‘ equality ’ as the prime goal of socialism — a position formalised in Crosland 's ‘ Future of Socialism ’ in 1956 . |
| 21 | The rather odd character of the formula called for considerable ingenuity in the enterprise . |
| 22 | A later communiqué from the guerrillas called for immediate peace talks and for their representation in the Constituent Assembly . |
| 23 | Such a role called for financial autonomy , an independent international civil service , and collaboration between world organizations . |