Example sentences of "[pron] call for " in BNC.
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1 | I call for his immediate resignation and the transfer of power to a collective body , the Council of the Federation … |
2 | I call for the report on the panel on doctrine on page one hundred and eighty five to be presented by Dr Stuart . |
3 | Detailed analysis is ignored in favour of a sustained defence of " realism " in literature : " I call for a return to reality " , Aragon repeats six times in as many pages . " |
4 | ‘ And what if I call for the steward ? ’ |
5 | She shouts that if I get soaked I need n't expect sympathy , and I call for her to join me . |
6 | And do n't come back until I call for you . |
7 | I call for , therefore for the C E C to bring back to Conference next year , a full report on how training should be given to the education and maintaining the activists of this union . |
8 | no minute and I call for and ask your Lordship to order the production of any board minute meeting recording that concern of Mr |
9 | The government has endorsed many of the Elton Committee 's recommendations , most of which call for action by schools and LEAs rather than central government . |
10 | According to sources close to the negotiating process , the talks broke apart in May 1989 , when the Panamanian side made it clear that the bases would be shut down — as permitted in the 1977 treaties which call for the closing of all US bases in the year 2000 . |
11 | The requirement for a research perspective which this necessarily entails , the relating of abstraction to actuality , the use of technique to realize principle , and indeed the whole process of self-monitoring , presupposes attitudes and abilities which call for the education and not just the training of teachers . |
12 | Needs on occasion are identified which call for a sharp break with previous practice , or for a new genus of weapon altogether ( such as the ICBM , Galosh ABM , particle beam weapons ) . |
13 | They are people striving for purpose and meaning in circumstances that are usually much less than ideal and which call for constant adjustment , adaptation and redefinition . |
14 | Demeaning offences fall into two broad categories , those which are treated by our participants as part of the generally resented background of personal devaluation , and those which call for specific retribution according to rule . |
15 | The healthy individual has no compulsive morality because he has no impulses which call for moral inhibition . |
16 | When you enter the business world you will be expected to take part in an array of situations which call for specialised oral communications . |
17 | By combining literary discrimination and linguistic discrimination in this way , we should become alert to those particular features of style which call for more careful investigation . |
18 | Of the relatively few exceptions to the pattern two which call for mention are Chicheley Hall , Buckinghamshire ( 1719–21 ) , and Sutton Scarsdale , Derbyshire ( begun 1724 ) : the exotic façade of the former probably owes more to the taste of the patron , Sir John Chester , than to Smith 's own devising ; but Sutton Scarsdale , in part evidently inspired by Gibbs 's unexecuted design of 1721 for the university buildings at Cambridge , is his finest work , a wholly convincing essay in the heroic grand manner , in which the giant Corinthian order is handled with total assurance . |
19 | They point to universality of demand which range from those of socio-political and economic systems to those which embrace the importance of communication and technology and , further , which call for a balance of those requirements of society which are rational , moral , aesthetic and belief-centred ( Lawton 1986 ) . |
20 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
21 | Those who call for ‘ violent young thugs ’ to be locked up should understand a little more and condemn a little less , he says . |
22 | Many people who call for benefit increases in a discussion on whether or not to operate a minimum wage , mysteriously lose their voice in debates to enhance welfare payments ( Sam Brittan and Joe Rogaly , both from the Financial Times stable , are honourable exceptions to this rule ) . |
23 | The state-controlled Egyptian newspaper al-Akbar said that the new government was " controlled by hawks , shedders of blood and the most mad extremists who call for war " and that " it is a government to cause regional disasters " . |
24 | Nabi Berri , leader of the Shia organization Amal and currently a Cabinet member , said on Aug. 18 that a postponement was undesirable and that " those who call for a postponement are also targeting the Taif accord " . |
25 | You can pick up a complimentary copy when you call for a meal or a drink . |
26 | We will do nothing until you call for us . |
27 | or we 'll hang on until you call for her and then I 'll pop these back home , I do n't mind , whichever . |
28 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
29 | ‘ We call for a priority to be given immediately to new legislation which will actively facilitate the re-entry into our society of those at present disadvantaged within it . ’ |
30 | ‘ We call for explicit guarantees of media and press freedom in the constitutions of all African countries as stipulated in Article 19 of the United Nations ' Declaration on Human Rights , ’ they stressed . |