Example sentences of "calls for a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , calls for a general strike to force the Government to end all support for intervention were heavily defeated at the Labour Party Conference in June . |
| 2 | Crowds estimated at several tens of thousands massed in central Antananarivo daily in the week after the killings , as most workers apparently supported opposition calls for a general strike . |
| 3 | It also calls for a higher price threshold for company car tax . |
| 4 | The plan calls for a 17 percent reduction in timber felling over the next year , but avoids offering long tern protection to the owl or its habitat . |
| 5 | ‘ I think this calls for a small port , ’ he said merrily as he decanted rich red liquid into a pair of minuscule glasses . |
| 6 | If a small local team is to be formed and the teacher has a good relationship with her classes she could select by invitation ( e.g. a lecture/dem. calls for a small group of experienced movers ) . |
| 7 | The melodic line must stand out with the greatest power and clarity in our arrangement , and obviously calls for a great sweep of strings . |
| 8 | It calls for a great deal of skill and judgment and is a shot that needs to be practised regularly in order to play it well . |
| 9 | Your rhythm style calls for a great deal of aggressive down-stroke picking … |
| 10 | Scott LJ said : In my view the nature of the proviso , instead of requiring a strict interpretation of the word " taxation " in favour of the taxpayer , calls for a liberal interpretation in favour of the Crown . |
| 11 | This position calls for a thorough knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and the role and nature of clinical development . |
| 12 | The new document , which anticipates a new EC regulation on handling manual loads due to come into effect next January , calls for a thorough review of NHS lifting policies and procedures , including an examination of staffing levels . |
| 13 | On the sunroom walls , chalking off the existing paint calls for a stabilising solution . |
| 14 | Marriage calls for a certain degree of maturity . |
| 15 | Mr Pilkington says The Times crossword calls for a certain amount of literary background but it helps generally to get to know the minds of the compilers . |
| 16 | This problem calls for a major change in the content of our primary education and for the raising of the school entry age so that the child is older when he leaves , and also able to learn more quickly while he is in school . ’ |
| 17 | And since extraction for horticulture currently presents the main threat to the bogs , it calls for a major initiative to encourage the use of peat-free growing media and soil conditions . |
| 18 | Mr Kellett calls for a major shake-up in the system for looking after the elderly in an article in the British Medical Journal . |
| 19 | ‘ Our Charter for alcohol and health calls for a rational system of taxation with drinks taxed according to their alcoholic strength ’ |
| 20 | Nevertheless calls for a congressional inquiry into the October Surprise allegations increased throughout the month as further circumstantial evidence was uncovered . |
| 21 | As we have said , if your let-down procedure calls for a final descent rate of 800 ft/min , there is no time for trial and error . |
| 22 | And , as yet , we have seen no reason to suppose that the need for explanation calls for a prior epistemology . |
| 23 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 24 | The charter calls for a government-funded airport security system protected from the commercial pressures of privatisation and from the contracting-out of essential services . |
| 25 | In The Rites of Man ( Paladin £6.99 ) , Rosalind Miles calls for a new masculinity for the millennium . |
| 26 | The conduct of pedagogic research as I have defined it here presupposes attitudes and approaches to techniques of teaching which are developed only through an educational perspective and this in turn calls for a continuous programme of in-service support . |
| 27 | In its latest review of the UK economy , the National Institute calls for a neutral Budget , rather than further interest rate reductions , to maintain the momentum of the nascent economic recovery . |
| 28 | But above all , it calls for a co-ordinated approach from the private , voluntary and public sectors to the development of sport in Scotland and suggests how that might be achieved . |
| 29 | His imitations of other voices calls for a good sense of mimicry , and should bring the dreariness of his life into focus . |
| 30 | ‘ You must understand , gentlemen , this calls for a good eye , a steady hand — and of course , a total disregard for mother 's nicely-painted ceiling . |