Example sentences of "there [was/were] call for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier this year there were calls for a public inquiry into the Government 's use of statistics and constraints on research , from the social statistics section of the RSS , from the Association of Social Research Organisations and from the Social Research Association . |
| 2 | But there were calls for a shift to a more supportive role for industry from more sympathetic ministers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the local level , too , there were calls for the maximum amount of latitude in self-administration . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | At mass demonstrations in Baku there were calls for the Azerbaijan authorities either to reassert full sovereignty over Nagorny Karabakh or to resign . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In particular there were calls for the resignation of the state Interior Minister , Lothar Kupfer , who initially expressed " a certain understanding " for the rioters . |
| 11 | And there were calls for the theatre to close as it had become a big drain on local council finances . |
| 12 | And their performance was so popular with the watching crowd that there were calls for the return of the stocks . |