Example sentences of "there [be] call for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were calls for the resignation of coach Kevin Ashcroft as Salford went down to another heavy defeat , 36-12 at home to a Bradford side inspired by their Canberra Raider , Ivan Henjak . |
| 2 | At the local level , too , there were calls for the maximum amount of latitude in self-administration . |
| 3 | It had become clear over the ensuing years that the requirements concerning collective worship had increasingly been disregarded by schools , and there were calls for the introduction of a more flexible system as well as suggestions that as a concept collective worship in school was outmoded and out of line with the more secular society in Britain , and should , therefore , be abandoned altogether . |
| 4 | The conference took place at a time of great political turmoil , and there were calls for the resignation of President Collor and an end to corruption . |
| 5 | At mass demonstrations in Baku there were calls for the Azerbaijan authorities either to reassert full sovereignty over Nagorny Karabakh or to resign . |
| 6 | Portraits of former communist dictator Enver Hoxha and of the current President , Ramiz Alia , were burned at rallies in Tirana on Oct. 6 , and there were calls for the arrest of Hoxha 's widow , Nexhmije Hoxha . |
| 7 | There were calls for the splitting of the Bailiff 's combined functions , those of judge and of Deputy President of the island 's parliament , the Assembly of the States . |
| 8 | In particular there were calls for the resignation of the state Interior Minister , Lothar Kupfer , who initially expressed " a certain understanding " for the rioters . |
| 9 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 10 | And their performance was so popular with the watching crowd that there were calls for the return of the stocks . |