Example sentences of "[be] [pron] [pron] call the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose the British equivalent would be what we call the Stockbroker Belt , ’ she mused , ‘ although some of those have fared pretty badly recently . |
| 2 | This must be what they call the fog of war . ’ |
| 3 | And then on the other side there used to be what they called the market . |
| 4 | ‘ In the course of this process we have talked to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , who told us that she was the life tenant of a substantial estate , and that you are what they call the remainder-man . ’ |
| 5 | So do n't fall for it — make sure it is you who calls the tune . |
| 6 | As a Taurean , you work well with others as long as it is you who calls the shots . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what they called the operation . |
| 8 | With the X mover that 's what they called the solution . |
| 9 | He 's the bo he 's what they call the editor of the programme . |
| 10 | That 's what they call the Hamilton place . ’ |
| 11 | Sorry , that 's what we call the Monday morning meeting where we discuss what 's going on . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's what I call the devil now , ’ explained Lydia recalling herself to the conversation . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose this is what they call the fog of war , ’ she yelled . |
| 14 | He is what they call the middleclass , which we who were foolish used to laugh at . |
| 15 | But the fundamental part of any application is what we call the transaction integrity logic or the business rules which actually model the way you want to do business . |
| 16 | ‘ This is what we call the ABC moment , ’ says Garrett , ‘ Alive Below Crystal . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ This , gentlemen , is what we call the Equalizer , ’ Cawthorne said , turning the gun from side to side . |
| 18 | ‘ This is what we call the Armoury , ’ bubbled Blufton . |
| 19 | And the regularity work , which is what we call the work on the accounts , the opinion on the accounts , the work seems very well , and the timetable that was agreed with er , the County Treasurer offices . |
| 20 | The first is , is a very good planning diary , it 's just automatic erm , A B and the third part of it , the last part is what we call the work organiser . |
| 21 | ‘ This is what we call the Corpus Callosum ; it 's the most complex computer in existence today . |
| 22 | This is what I call the strategy of non-decision , the decision that we will do nothing , that we wo n't harass the child , that we will give the child time to relax and move at his own pace , rather than determining the pace that we feel the child ought to be following . |
| 23 | The singleness of this truth is what I called the marriage of the Drunks project and the ‘ Confession ’ project in Crime and Punishment . |
| 24 | ‘ This is what you call the laconicum ? ’ she asked , drawing back rather dubiously from the dank breath that distilled out of the earth . |
| 25 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 26 | And it was there were two there was what they called the barn , the lofts they called it . |
| 27 | One of their guidelines was what they called the correspondence principle , the requirement that classical mechanics should be recoverable for large systems . |
| 28 | No it was what they called the manual that 's for learning woodwork , that was once a week . |
| 29 | And in nineteen twenty er strike going at the present day there was what we called the soup kitchens . |
| 30 | That was what we call the man-killer . |