Example sentences of "[was/were] called for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Drastic measures were called for when Scarlett the Borzoi disappeared from her home at Orston , Nottinghamshire . |
| 2 | Sir Robin Day , realising that drastic measures were called for , started to make funny faces . |
| 3 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 4 | ( This Management team of four ( bondholders ) survived until November 1921 when at the Annual General Meeting that year the President , Lord Rathcreedan , announced that ‘ The provision for Club members on the Committee had been overlooked ’ and two nominations were called for ) . |
| 5 | New types of station were called for . |
| 6 | Down went Alvar Salvadores in great haste , and ordered a bell to be rung which was a signal for two hundred knights to make ready ; for the history saith , that the Cid , by reason that he was alway in war , had appointed such signals for his people , that they knew when one hundred were called for , and when two , and so forth . |
| 7 | When volunteers were called for to drop on a remote Yugoslavian mountain , their packs laden with gelignite to blow up bridges , I carefully avoided the challenging eye and the demanding notice board . |
| 8 | At the review , Panel Members who knew the children from the previous case were called for the Hearing . |
| 9 | In line with all the structural changes , some very fundamental behavioural changes were called for . |
| 10 | A truly socialist legal system and democracy complete with free speech and free media were called for . |
| 11 | Drastic measures were called for . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're not , sir , although I have no doubt it could carry out such a survey if it were called for . |
| 13 | JUSTICE for all and a fair sharing of resources were called for by Bishop Konstant when he welcomed candidates who will become Catholics at Easter . |
| 14 | So , Special Commissions of the Conference were called for this purpose in 1978 and 1985 . |
| 15 | The official line was that ‘ true character of French concessions to Indo-Chinese nationalism and ultimate intentions are clear to Department ’ and it was for this reason that no further substantive concessions involving parliamentary action in France were called for at that time . |
| 16 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 17 | New strategies for regional distribution were called for , and a fresh interest in the regions was shown by Whitehall . |
| 18 | You had the split shifts and the down shifts and maybe we were called for er a |
| 19 | The rest of the cast were called for three to do a complete rehearsal of all the scenes he was in . |
| 20 | I assure her that if the Government had thought that changes were called for , we would have made them . |
| 21 | Demonstration were called for March 9 in Belgrade by opposition groups led by Vuk Draskovic , the chairman of the Serbian Renaissance Movement which opposed Milosevic 's confrontational policies toward non-communist organisations . |
| 22 | With the arrival ten minutes later of Commander Blenkinsop , Fagg and Fishbane , three more glasses and a second decanter were called for . |
| 23 | In 1989 , that is three years after the original gastroscopic screening , the same pernicious anaemia patients were called for a follow up gastroscopy . |
| 24 | Mr Justice Turner , when jailing Clarke , said that deterrent sentences were called for . |
| 25 | TOUGHER laws to stem the rising number of juveniles committing crime while on bail in Hartlepool , were called for yesterday . |
| 26 | FURTHER investigations into the causes of childhood leukaemia were called for yesterday after publication of a report which challenges the link with radioactive discharges . |
| 27 | The extra meeting was called for by several committee members . |
| 28 | A trial scheme to test the viability of the proposal was called for at last weekend 's Bar conference . |
| 29 | An easy day was called for , using the new car — what luxury ! — to visit the northern hemisphere 's largest great skua colony . |
| 30 | I 'm not saying it 's hard work , like working on a farm , but they certainly do n't give everything to you on a silver platter , ’ she added as her name was called for yet another fitting . |