Example sentences of "[noun sg] call the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest disclosures , a week after the Guardian published the National Audit Office 's memorandum to MPs revealing the existence of the sweeteners , led to a third clash between Labour and the Prime Minister on the Government 's involvement in what Labour called the ‘ calculated deception of Parliament and the European Commission ’ . |
| 2 | The idea of a one-woman tribute was conceived five years ago , when larger-than-life director Bryan Izzard asked me to contribute to a Channel Four programme on the monologue called The Eye Of The Little Yellow Dog , starring , amongst others , the late Leonard Rossiter , Cilla Black , Alec McCowen , Diane Langton , Anita Harris and Ronald Lacey . |
| 3 | Participating in a traditional bloody ritual called the grynd , that dates back over the centuries , Faroe Islanders each year herd large schools of pilot whales into shallow waters and then , with man and whale alike thrashing in red blood-stained water , the animals are gaffed , speared , or knifed to death . |
| 4 | Boat called the Thetis . |
| 5 | It 's going to be on board a small boat called The Sandhopper . |
| 6 | Modesty Blaise had lived in a penthouse , and Travis McGee lived on a boat called the Busted Flush . |
| 7 | In the boring afternoons when training has finished and the snooker hall is closed , the major haunt of Scottish professional players is a noisy and accommodating emporium called the bookies . |
| 8 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 9 | When he retired from practice , probably in 1828 , he and others produced a veterinary periodical called the Farrier and Naturalist , which was devoted to attacks on Professor Coleman , and ran for three years . |
| 10 | The head of bond research at one large American institution calls the concentration of power in Moody 's and S&P dangerous . |
| 11 | But around the edifice lies what the mediaeval poet called the " faire felde full of folke " . |
| 12 | Reconciliation is worked out , made concrete and extended in the establishing and development of a new , ethical human community , which the New Testament calls the kingdom of God . |
| 13 | This sub division , the cell-mediated immune response , is hampered by a lack of a certain type of white blood cell called the T-cell . |
| 14 | In Marcia Millman 's ( 1976 ) fascinating account of ‘ the backrooms of medicine ’ there is a chapter called the ‘ Great Save ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Several subtle changes will require more skills from the riders , and with the addition of a new complex called the ‘ Bull Pens ’ it is thought that the optimum time will be harder to achieve , ’ says Michael Tucker . |
| 16 | Into the slope a valley has been cut by a little brook called the Selletbeck , which runs past the churchyard and on down to the River Lune . |
| 17 | He was debating between a horse called the Prince of Wales and an outsider called Pretty Polly . |
| 18 | The British Museum has acquired Britain 's most important piece of Romano-British silver , an elaborately decorated fourth-century tray called the Risley Park lanx . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury . |
| 20 | Many places known to have links with the old religion have ‘ devil ’ names , such as the rock outcrop called the Devil 's Pulpit at Tealby , Lincolnshire . |
| 21 | The Square is named after one of the original Bolshevik revolutionaries , Felix Dzerzhinsky , who founded Russia 's first secret police force called the Cheka . |
| 22 | Vehicles are allowed along a 45 mile stretch called the Wessex Ridgeway . |
| 23 | The plot centred on mankind 's confrontation with a Galactic enemy called the Diaboli . |
| 24 | Then one day he chanced upon an ad in the Evening Standard inviting aspirant comics for a new venture above a Soho strip club called the Comedy Store . |
| 25 | Muriel Belcher had previously run a club called the Music Box in Leicester Square and which during the war had become a theatrical rendezvous . |
| 26 | Got a club called the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 27 | Then Arthur took them to a night club called The Scotch , and made them dance , and thought they looked good together . |
| 28 | All in all , it 's easy to see why a small-town club called the Rovers made the fancy dans in the big cities . |
| 29 | The major bastion of Welsh Jacobitism was the north-east , where Watkin Williams Wynn ( who was to be MP for Denbighshire from 1716 to 1749 ) established a Jacobite club called the " Cycle of the White Rose " on 10 June 1710 . |
| 30 | The mortals believed that she was the provider of great riches until a seven-headed monster called The Cabinet destroyed her with the Golden Hair of Heseltine . |