Example sentences of "[was/were] call the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We can never re-create Australia but if the French were calling the side the Lions it would have been an appropriate thank-you to the players . ’ |
| 2 | Commentators were calling the results ‘ a political earthquake ’ . |
| 3 | The next thing he knew , the Thames Valley Police were calling the landlords as prosecution witnesses in " Operation Major " — dubbed " The Sting " by a tabloid newspaper — after the police had arrested hundreds of their tenants ( all claimants ) for allegedly defrauding the DHSS , by supposedly drawing social security to pay their rent when they were actually not paying any . |
| 4 | In their earnest and determined way , the promoters of women 's employment were calling the bluff of the skilled journeyman , but without appreciating the violence of feelings aroused by the threat not just of cheap labour but of cheap female labour . |
| 5 | In that year comparisons of Eliot with Pound were stimulated , and exacerbated , by the publication of what were called the ‘ drafts and transcripts ’ of The Waste Land ; that is to say , the heterogeneous packet of typescripts and manuscripts which Eliot had dumped on Pound in Paris , out of which Pound had helped Eliot to extricate the poem that for forty years had been known under that title . |
| 6 | Bernie went up to the singer after the show and said , we thought you were called The Teenage Rebels , yet you 're not teenagers and you 're certainly not rebellious . |
| 7 | The six brothers ' direct descendants were called the che gaon ki gor ( six village clan ) and similarly the artisans and their descendants were the twelve village clan , the labourers were the twenty four village clan and right near the bottom of the caste hierarchy came the shoemakers with their clan of ‘ several ’ villages . |
| 8 | Kevin Rowland 's first group — a punk band — were called The Killjoys . |
| 9 | These two judges were called the horse and the hen , because it was said , they needed to have the swiftness of the one and the vigilance of the other . |
| 10 | In the mysteries of the temples of Ancient Egypt and in Greece where the teachings were called the Hermetic Gnosis . |
| 11 | They were called the chordates , and started a momentous chain of evolutionary events . |
| 12 | Battlefields were called the Lands of Badb , and her appearance was anxiously sought to determine omens . |
| 13 | ( The various P-40 models were renamed a few times — the ‘ A , ‘ B and ‘ Cs were called the Tomahawk ; the ‘ D , ‘ E , ‘ F and ‘ Ks were known as the ‘ Kittyhawk ’ ; and the ‘ L , ‘ M and ‘ Ns were christened Warhawk ) . |
| 14 | I knew all about them when they were called the Savage Sausages and they used to play the Powerhaus singing ‘ Louie Louie ’ through a 20 watt PA … |
| 15 | It would , by implication , be one of five constituent parts of the Indochinese Federation — which meant that Vietnam itself would be divided into three parts — and they , together with other parts of what were called the ‘ French Community ’ would form a French Union . |
| 16 | He refers to customs in his school days such as the keeping of the Day of the Festival of Bridget , when they took to school a few silver coins as an offering to the teacher , and the boy and girl who took most were called the King and the Queen of the school for a year . |
| 17 | He refers to customs in his school days such as the keeping of the Day of the Festival of Bridget , when they took to school a few silver coins as an offering to the teacher , and the boy and girl who took most were called the King and the Queen of the school for a year . |
| 18 | They were called the Abdabs , specialized in serious experimentation in sound and light , wore white coats , and would discuss their work , post-performance , with the equally serious audience . |
| 19 | There have been few examples of trade mark infringement in the world of computers as most counterfeiters and software pirates have used different names or marks ; for example , copies of the Apple computer imported into Australia were called the " Wombat " . |
| 20 | At the time of this incident the incident was carried out by a group of officers who were called the operational support unit . |
| 21 | The police were called the next day . |
| 22 | At the back of Odness the houses were called the Westness . |
| 23 | Typically , a laudatory essay he wrote was called The Painter of Modern Life on the subject of the illustrator Constantin Guys ; this gifted if minor artist was accurately targeted by Baudelaire as being in the mainstream of contemporary social and political life . |
| 24 | It was called the Scala . |
| 25 | Sir Robert said Mr Hale , who had worked for BR for 30 years and was called the captain of the ship in the Hidden report , had indicated he wished to take early retirement . |
| 26 | In the United Kingdom , Derry/Londonderry was the first and their game was called The Maiden City , presumably in order not to alienate that half of the community which did not approve of either the name Derry or Londonderry . |
| 27 | The method of resolution which begins with causes and demonstrates their consequent effects was called the ‘ method of proof or demonstration ’ ; so the direction or ‘ the order of proof or of things ’ goes ‘ from causes to effects ’ . |
| 28 | The show was called The Mary Whitehouse Experience ( which I later learned was in honour of the blue-nose lady who 's always sounding off about too much sex in the media ) . |
| 29 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 30 | Craig toured the province building support for what , when it was launched in 1972 , was called the Vanguard Movement . |