Example sentences of "last [noun sg] call for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Dr Roger Williams , director of the hospital 's liver unit , last night called for change in legislation in line with American law which would oblige medical staff to approach the relatives of suitable donors for permission to transplant healthy organs . |
| 2 | Delegates at the congress , in East Berlin 's Dynamo sports hall , last night called for a ‘ grassroots renewal ’ and said they were bitter and disappointed over the ‘ criminal acts ’ of their former leaders . |
| 3 | BARONESS Thatcher last night called for air strikes against Serbian troops in Bosnia if they refuse to pull out within 48 hours . |
| 4 | HIGHFIELD chairman Geoff Fletcher last night called for the Rugby League 's board of directors to resign after proposals to return to two divisions next season . |
| 5 | TREVOR FRANCIS last night called for a complete ban on transfers during the season . |
| 6 | Legal expert Diana Brahams last night called for the law on euthanasia to be clarified . |
| 7 | FORMER international Dorothy Armstrong last night called for a radical change in the format of domestic squash following last week 's vote to amalgamate the Northern Ireland Men 's and Women 's Associations . |
| 8 | A DUNGANNON councillor last night called for the erection of name plates on roads in the district . |
| 9 | CAMPAIGNERS last night called for investment in North-East rail services and dismissed the Passenger 's Charter as meaningless . |
| 10 | A MAN who has twice saved drowning people from mountainous seas last night called for tighter safety measures on Redcar esplanade . |
| 11 | THE BBC 's former director general , Sir Michael Checkland , last night called for the resignation of the BBC chairman , Marmaduke Hussey , in the wake of the row over John Birt 's tax arrangements . |
| 12 | THE BBC 's former director general , Sir Michael Checkland , last night called for the resignation of the BBC chairman , Marmaduke Hussey , in the wake of the row over John Birt 's tax arrangements . |
| 13 | AN MP last night called for a Government review of the jury system in Northern Ireland after an inquest failed to decide who had fired the first shots in a gun battle in which three Irish Republican Army men died . |
| 14 | TERRY YORATH last night called for a repeat of Wales ' European Championship performance in Belgium last year as he named his squad for the World Cup re-run . |
| 15 | The Social Democrats passed a motion at their conference in Brighton last month calling for a common age of consent at 16 . |
| 16 | The weekly trade newsletter said yesterday that the deal struck by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries last month called for shipments to be cut by about 2 million barrels per day on the February level of about 25.6 million bpd . |
| 17 | Some delegates to China 's parliament last week called for billions of pounds in compensation . |
| 18 | AS ONE might expect from a professional prosecutor , Barbara Mills , the Director of Public Prosecutions , last week called for defendants to lose the right to choose trial by jury . |
| 19 | Yeo 's undertaking is unlikely to satisfy the Health Committee , which last week called for monitoring of resources and the ‘ outcome for local authorities and users of services ’ . |
| 20 | Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones spoke on Radio Four last week calling for the production to be banned from the Civic , where it is due on March 31 . |
| 21 | Its decision last week to call for the removal of all sanctions , except the arms and oil embargoes , from the time that an election date was announced , rather than the elections themselves , indicates a clear understanding of the country 's dire economic situation . |
| 22 | Ed 's comment : Regular readers may remember my attack on the practice of dying Glassfish in an editorial last year calling for a complete ban . |