Example sentences of "have called [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wirral housing committee has called for an urgent meeting with housing minister Sir George Young . |
| 2 | Mr Harrison has called for an urgent meeting with EC officials to restate the case for intervention funding which would make the yard more attractive to potential purchasers . |
| 3 | AI has called for an independent inquiry into the killings and repeatedly called for a curb on the use of firearms by the security forces . |
| 4 | Following the government 's announcement army veterans from the civil war in the south were reported to have staged a sit-in on the bridge between Khartoum and Omdurman , customs officers to have called for an all-out strike by civil servants " to put an end to the military regime " and tens of thousands of protesters to have taken to the streets of Omdurman on Feb. 9 . |
| 5 | But that Wednesday morning , the few customers who had called for an early drink were much more interested in other underwater creatures : four of them , with sleek black skins and disproportionately large webbed feet , circling up and down , and round and round , and sweeping the depths diligently below the weir , streams of bubbles intermittently rising to the surface from the cylinders strapped to their backs . |
| 6 | They have called for an immediate apology and say the muddle may have cost crucial votes in the battle for Darlington . |
| 7 | EC environment ministers acting upon the increasing scientific evidence for ozone depletion , have called for an accelerated plan for withdrawing ozone-depleting compounds . |
| 8 | Scientists have called for an urgent review of recently set government safety limits which are now thought to be inadequate . |