Example sentences of "called for a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 25 , however , following fresh revelations in the El Mundo newspaper , the conservative Popular Party ( PP ) called for a wider parliamentary inquiry . |
| 2 | Kohl had called for a European federal police force modelled on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation but the UK favoured an inter-governmental rather than a supranational force , although Major himself called for a " strong perimeter fence " around the EC to prevent a wave of illegal immigrants . |
| 3 | In order to ensure a more appropriate distribution across the states of production , prices and a rational pattern of modernisation , the treaty schedule called for a five-year transitional period of two distinct stages . |
| 4 | Without hard evidence , he remained sceptical of the Interfor Report 's findings , but nevertheless called for a genuine public inquiry . |
| 5 | Some major parties quickly rejected the whole idea of the planned conference , regarding it as undemocratic , and called for a genuine national conference to draw up a new constitution . |
| 6 | Foreign Ministers called for a comprehensive political settlement , and spoke of " the need to create the conditions for an early deployment of UN peacekeeping forces " . |
| 7 | Komsomol leaders called for a revitalized voluntary democratic organization , independent of , but sharing a political platform with , the CPSU . |
| 8 | On Jan. 18 the Hungarian government had called for a complete Soviet withdrawal by no later than the end of 1991 [ for Hungarian Defence Minister 's non-committal response to a suggestion to the same effect in December 1989 , see p. 37130 ] . |
| 9 | NAM originated in the Bandung Conference of 1955 , where a large number of poor African and Asian countries called for a better economic deal from the rich countries of the world . |
| 10 | Seventeen years later the Congregational Union 's Executive called for a Nonconformist equivalent but nothing came of it . |
| 11 | The African countries have consequently called for a strong international secretariat to serve as a regulating body in matters of waste disposal . |
| 12 | SUPPORT for Britain 's coal industry came last night from an unexpected quarter as the right wing pressure group Aims of Industry called for a wide ranging review . |
| 13 | Ann Winterton , Tory MP for Congleton , called for a full legal review and a policy decision by the Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , to examine the options and bring forward a new law . |
| 14 | This situation called for a full-scale nervous breakdown . |
| 15 | The report called for a continuing government-sponsored evaluation of timber-frame housing , longer-term guarantees , and voluntary limits by house-builders on the number of dwellings built by this method . |
| 16 | Dr Andrei Sakharov and other leading radicals have called for a two-hour general strike on Monday to put pressure on the Congress of People 's Deputies , the country 's supreme legislative body . |
| 17 | On Friday 22 March , John Carroll of the ITGWU called for a sworn public inquiry into the possible health hazards of the Raybestos factory , though also saying Raybestos must be allowed to go ahead . |
| 18 | China has regretted North Korea 's defiance and called for a nuclear-free Korean peninsula . |
| 19 | However , the replacement of the Community Programme by Employment Training threatens many of these initiatives and the Commission has recently called for a special environmental task force under the auspices of the new Training and Enterprise Councils . |
| 20 | WIRRAL Tories have called for a massive re-cycling drive to provide a realistic alternative to waste incineration . |
| 21 | LABOUR councillors have called for a massive public demonstration to save Woodchurch swimming pool , amid fears it could be lost ‘ by stealth . ’ |
| 22 | Some parties had called for a national multiparty conference to be held first . |