Example sentences of "call for an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Large sections of the Palestinian community perceived the elections offer as a device to end the intifada , and the latter provision as a bid to divert attention from calls for an international conference on the Middle East . |
| 2 | During 1989 calls for an international conference were repeated at the European Communities ( EC ) summit in Madrid , the Paris summit of the seven major industrial countries and the Arab League summit in Casablanca , as well as by the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | He appeared before the Public Inquiry about the M3 motorway in the mid seventies and supports calls for an environmental assessment of Twyford Down . |
| 4 | Amid renewed calls for an immediate ceasefire there were reports of continued diplomatic initiatives . |
| 5 | And it will provide free and unlimited local calls for an indefinite period . |
| 6 | Clearly the task is considerable and calls for an efficient Community legislative system ( which needs to be accompanied by a vigorous process of national compliance ) . |
| 7 | But he said he could not consider calls for an open sheriff 's inquiry , in spite of pleas by the islands ' MP , Jim Wallace , Shetland Islands Council , and the petitioners . |
| 8 | Cahal Daly , the recently installed Archbishop of Armagh , said he was ‘ deeply disturbed ’ and joined calls for an independent inquiry . |
| 9 | RAMBLERS have renewed calls for an independent inquiry into the army 's need for training land . |
| 10 | RENEWED calls for an independent inquiry into the future of local government were made yesterday . |
| 11 | CALLS FOR an independent body to monitor the Government 's use of statistics followed two recent cases which attracted widespread criticism , but some academics have long been concerned about the independence of British official statistics . |
| 12 | CALLS for an independent body to monitor political interference in government statistics , reported in The Independent yesterday , have received widespread backing . |
| 13 | In the most positive response to date to South Korean calls for an inter-Korean summit meeting , a North Korean Deputy Foreign Minister , Kang SokChu told reporters in New York on Sept. 17 that President Kim Il Sung hoped to hold such a summit with President Roh Tae Woo , now that the two countries had been admitted to the UN and " recognized as legitimate governments by the international community " . |
| 14 | The unions hope to embarrass Kenneth Clarke , Secretary of State for Health , with tomorrow 's lobby and believe that many Tories at the conference back their call for an increased offer . |
| 15 | FoE reiterated its call for an immediate ban on the use of two herbicides most often found in water , atrazine and simazine . |
| 16 | Billy Graham like all such evangelists called for people from the congregation to make an immediate decision and to come out from the crowd ; and Ramsey wrote that the call for an immediate decision had danger because the mind could be stifled in the process and this could bring a later revenge in scepticism and indifference . |
| 17 | It issued a call for an immediate ceasefire , and restructured the existing ceasefire monitoring group under 15 Nigerian and 15 Zaïrean officers . |
| 18 | Islamic states interrupted the planned order of speeches and stood up one after the other to back his call for an immediate appeal to the Security Council . |
| 19 | SCOTTISH miners have backed a call for an integrated energy policy INCLUDING nuclear power . |
| 20 | This is a call for an accurate self-appraisal , which in turn gives the opportunity to practise a very well-known management technique — capitalise on your strengths and staff to your weaknesses . |
| 21 | The call for an alternative market for the smaller company is growing , and growing louder all the time . |
| 22 | Mengistu in June welcomed a joint United States-Soviet call for an international peace conference , suggesting that he would accept UN observers to oversee peace talks [ for collapse of talks with EPLF in Kenya in November 1989 see pp. 36886-87 ] . |
| 23 | On Dec. 6 the General Assembly adopted by 144 votes to two ( Israel and the USA ) Resolution 45/68 renewing its call for an international peace conference on the Middle East involving all parties , including the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) [ see also p. 37434 ] . |
| 24 | In a statement on July 22 , the organization renewed its call for an interim government , first made in the Harare Declaration of August 1989 [ see p. 36837 ] . |
| 25 | joined the E E F in July nineteen ninety two , since when he had led the call for an industrial policy in Britain . |
| 26 | This week President Mitterrand renewed the call for an early conference . |
| 27 | When the Opposition call for an independent consumer ombudsman , I suggest that that is exactly what they have under the present arrangements . |
| 28 | Justice For All spokesman William Smith said he backed the committee 's call for an independent probe into the cases . |
| 29 | Strathclyde Regional Council , another strong critic of the Touche Ross figures , yesterday issued a statement renewing its call for an independent commission to examine the future of Scottish local government . |
| 30 | The president of COSLA , Charles Gray , made a renewed call for an independent commission to examine the future of local government . |