Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [pers pn] call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
| 2 | He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world . |
| 3 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 4 | They have recently exhibited paintings which they call Cubist paintings . |
| 5 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |
| 6 | It 's this marvellous giving and taking and sharing which provides these marvellous explosions which we call inspired moments which sometimes result in a work of art . |
| 7 | There are well-known objections to tariffs imposed to protect ailing industries and these are fully recognised by the most up-to-date protectionists who regard such tariffs as a primitive form which they call creeping protectionism [ Cripps and Godley , 1978 ; Godley , 1979 ; Singh , 1977 ] . |
| 8 | The Emperor Constantine , impressed by the city 's possibilities , transferred the Imperial seat of government there in A.D. 330 and began to build a great new city which he called New Rome . |
| 9 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |
| 10 | He saw that there was a sentiment which he called colonial nationalism , which was not merely separation , but a complex of local feeling and attachment to Britain . |