Example sentences of "have call [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bus firm 's had to cancel services because its drivers are too ill to work … and Swindon Town have called off a reserve match because they 're down to just 6 fit players . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Middlesbrough have called off a proposed tour to Australia and New Zealand because players were unhappy about a long-distance tour after a gruelling season . |
| 3 | For the moment , we have called off the hounds . |
| 4 | Dr Andrei Sakharov and other leading radicals have called for a two-hour general strike on Monday to put pressure on the Congress of People 's Deputies , the country 's supreme legislative body . |
| 5 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 6 | Tens of thousands demonstrated last night in the Romanian capital after reports of at least 20 deaths there earlier in the day , and students at the heart of the protest movement have called for a general strike today . |
| 7 | Other strikes ( notably among Warsaw 's transport workers ) have called for a loosening of the government 's tight monetary policy and an end to wage control . |
| 8 | Some have called for a boycott of the elections , but most are likely to back the faction of the Akali Dal , the Sikh political party , led by a former police officer , Simranjit Singh Mann . |
| 9 | Many organisations including the Town and Country Planning Association , Council for the Protection of Rural England , Royal Town Planning Institute , and the South East Economic Development Strategy have called for a comprehensive planning and transport strategy for the South East , arguing that this is essential both to protect the region from the adverse effects of the Tunnel and to maximise its benefits . |
| 10 | Ryedale councillors , who recently decided to set up of a customer-care department , have called for a report . |
| 11 | DOCTORS ' leaders in the region have called for a review of the prescription charge system after the Government 's announcement that fees are to increase by 50p in April . |
| 12 | His has been the strongest and most resonant of the voices which have called for a change of priorities . |
| 13 | Health and Medical Organisations : All the leading British and international medical and health organisations that have studied the problem of smoking have called for a total ban by legislation on the promotion of tobacco . |
| 14 | Some commentators have ascribed the rise in the number of homeless mentally ill people to the run down of psychiatric hospitals and have called for a halt to the policy of closure . |
| 15 | The Worldwide Fund for Nature and other conservation groups have called for a simplification of this network . |
| 16 | French farmers have called for a ban on imports . |
| 17 | Two German consumer groups have called for a boycott of the controversial " Duales System Deutschland " recycling scheme [ see EDs passim ] . |
| 18 | They are opposed to any implicit encouragement of companies who currently import non-sustainable supplies , and have called for a boycott of leading UK " D-I-Y " stores [ see ED 53/54 ] . |
| 19 | Animal rights groups have called for a tourism boycott in protest against the plan . |
| 20 | The family of a remand prisoner found hanged in his cell have called for a public inquiry after an inquest reached a suicide verdict . |
| 21 | Twenty leading British scientists have called for a change in Government to reverse what they call a dramatic decline in the standard of British scientific research . |
| 22 | LABOUR councillors have called for a massive public demonstration to save Woodchurch swimming pool , amid fears it could be lost ‘ by stealth . ’ |
| 23 | Councillors have called for a report on a perks package which eases the burden of moving home . |
| 24 | Two conferences of the Football Supporters ' Association have called for a re-think , but it seemed we were banging our heads against a brick wall . |
| 25 | Pentland — who are currently propping up the bottom of the men 's first division table without a win — have called for a bigger , more competitive league next season . |
| 26 | The proposals fall short of demands made by Scottish Natural Heritage and environment groups , which have called for a ban on tanker traffic in the Fair Isle Straits . |
| 27 | WIRRAL Tories have called for a massive re-cycling drive to provide a realistic alternative to waste incineration . |
| 28 | Others have called for the enactment of a bill of rights . |
| 29 | For decades people have opposed the use of this trap on grounds of its cruelty , and among those who have done so many have called for the development and utilisation of what are called ‘ more humane methods ’ of trapping . |
| 30 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |