Example sentences of "[pers pn] called for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 8 January I called for a high-level meeting of donor countries to respond to the United Nations latest humanitarian appeal . |
| 2 | She called for a formal review of the whole case by Mrs Kemp , now she was back in her post . |
| 3 | Firstly we called for a major and sustained programme of development within West Belfast in order to reverse the history of long-term decline . |
| 4 | They called for a broader curriculum in a survey that revealed that 14 per cent believe bank loans are interest-free . |
| 5 | They called for a negotiated settlement restoring the republic 's sovereignty and territorial integrity . |
| 6 | It called for a revised constitution and the legalization of other political parties . |
| 7 | In its report of that name published in November 1987 it called for a full national strategy in cooperation with Eurotunnel , British Rail and regional interests to ensure that the potential benefits of the Tunnel are maximised ; the support of necessary infrastructure projects which do not meet current criteria for approval ; and a full technical study of the feasibility of a high speed rail link between Manchester and Continental Europe . |
| 8 | It called for a national plan , with the full co-operation of Commonwealth governments . |
| 9 | It called for a further postponement of the legislative elections which had already been deferred to begin on June 21 . |
| 10 | In April it called for a three-tier market , including an international equity market made up of the top 350 companies , a national market for most of the remaining companies listed on the Official List and the USM , and an enterprise market with minimum requirements for those companies not on the Official List , the intention being that those companies in the enterprise market should comprise higher risk operations . |
| 11 | It called for a EuroFed to co-ordinate monetary policies . |
| 12 | If there had been no reason for the attack , it called for a severe sentence ; in one sense , revenge attacks , which themselves strike a blow at public justice , could be said to aggravate the gravity of the offence . |
| 13 | But last Thursday he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 14 | Last Thursday , however , he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre-left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 15 | He called for a gotong-royong Cabinet composed of all political groups , including the PKI . |
| 16 | He called for a one-day strike in September . |
| 17 | When I met him at Wentworth earlier this week he called for a peaceful Ryder Cup match against the Americans at The Belfry in September . |
| 18 | Instead he called for a new security order based either on " trilateral Soviet-Japanese-US consultations and concrete agreements " , or a five-power conference involving China , India , Japan , the Soviet Union and the USA . |
| 19 | He called for a new partnership economy with the private and public sectors working together . |
| 20 | In his ‘ April Theses ’ he called for a revolutionary government based on the Soviets and empowered to control the banks , production and distribution . |
| 21 | He called for a general election . |
| 22 | He called for a general strike to oppose " the rightist , reactionary , anti-constitutional coup " . |
| 23 | But one can sympathise with Mr Justice Henry , the now redundant Guinness judge , when he called for a radical re-appraisal of the way big fraud cases are handled . |
| 24 | According to C.-in-C. of CIS Armed Forces Marshal Yevgeny Shaposhnikov , it now remained for Ukraine to recognize Russia 's jurisdiction over nuclear weapons located on its territory , and he called for a Russian-Ukrainian summit to discuss the issue . |
| 25 | Bonar Law was prepared to make the right noises — in 1913 at Manchester he called for a positive social policy in Disraelian lines for " the swing of the pendulum is not enough " , but he would give no more active support . |
| 26 | He called for a single European standard for everything from track size to signalling and from staff training to rolling stock . |
| 27 | Speaking on Sept. 29 , he called for a special session of the Assembly on this issue , and welcomed the United Kingdom 's proposal to convene ( in April 1990 ) an international conference on drug demand reduction . |
| 28 | Eric Stephen said he thought that a of method getting people into the scheme was ‘ off the rails ’ and he called for a large input of help and direction while Andrew Macfarlane said that unless the end user guaranteed a premium farming leaders could ‘ forget FASL ’ . |