Example sentences of "[vb -s] called for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | , In a policy document on transport , the Green Party has called for a rise in the price of petrol to £6 a gallon ( a 170 per cent increase ) , a halt to new road building , a speed limit of 50 mph on motorways , and heavy investment in public transport . |
| 2 | The National Rivers Authority in Wales has called for a ban on conifer plantations in sensitive areas , but Nicholas Luard and the Bara Ceirch group feel they need to act more quickly to save the river . |
| 3 | The UN has called for a ban on drift nets worldwide by 1992 , and in the South Pacific by 1991 . |
| 4 | The Swedish government has called for a ban on the international trade in the bluefin tuna . |
| 5 | Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) has called for a ban on further production of halons , used principally in fire extinguishers . |
| 6 | At a conference of the Prison Officers ' Association , their leader , John Bartell has called for a halt on the Government 's privatisation of the prison service . |
| 7 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked on one of the sweets . |
| 8 | A mother has called for a brand of bubble gum to be taken off the shelves after her eight-year-old son nearly choked . |
| 9 | The recently-formed Bootle Miners Support Group has called for a lobby of Gladstone Dock tomorrow lunchtime . |
| 10 | A family has called for a school nurse to be sacked after she failed to spot that their son had a broken arm . |
| 11 | The Economist has called for a bill of rights as a bulwark against what Lord Hailsham once described as an ‘ elective dictatorship ’ . |
| 12 | AN AMBULANCEMEN has called for a man who rescued a youth from mountainous seas yesterday to be given a bravery award . |
| 13 | Pandolfi has called for a supplement of 136 million ecu to enable a number of projects to be revived . |
| 14 | This further sign of disunity among the opposition comes just as the former president , Valery Giscard d'Estaing , who is also the leader of the UDF , has called for a fusion of the seven parties of the centre-right into ‘ one big party of the centre-right by the beginning of 1992 ’ . |
| 15 | Friends of the Earth has called for a boycott of all timber products from Britain 's leading " do-it-yourself " chain stores , on the grounds that their import of tropical hardwoods is contributing to rainforest destruction . |
| 16 | , Animaline , a British animal-welfare organization , has called for a tourist boycott of Malta , to persuade that country to ban the shooting of migratory and native wild birds , hundreds of thousands of which are killed every year for sport . |
| 17 | A 15-member panel chosen to represent a cross section of the Dutch public has called for a moratorium on all commercial exploitation of genetically manipulated animals because there are still too many unknowns in genetic engineering . |
| 18 | The organization has called for a review of Hong Kong 's detention policy for asylum-seekers . |
| 19 | The Metropolitan Police Commissioner , Paul Condon , has called for a review of deportation procedures following the death of a Jamaican woman after a deportation order was served . |
| 20 | The document has caused a political storm and Labour has called for a statement from Mr Major . |