Example sentences of "[verb] to call it [art] " in BNC.

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1 I understand that the Prime Minister wants to call it the opt-in clause .
2 His well-being is of even higher importance to Scotland now that Peter Dods , such an admirable understudy with 23 caps , had decided to call it a day .
3 ‘ The director 's finally decided to call it a day , ’ he said .
4 They had decided to call it a day , that was all .
5 Piper had started using Red Indian names for its aircraft and when it inherited the ‘ poor man 's Dakota ’ from Stinson the double fin and rudder layout was replaced with a single one and it was decided to call it the Apache .
6 Vosper Hovermarine prefers to call it a surface effect ship .
7 Though he prefers to call it the Hospice Coast to Coast , ramblers have already nicknamed the route Clapperton 's Way .
8 A desperate mix of pride and masochism would have kept me wallowing around until dark , but I was forcefully persuaded to call it a day .
9 They would like to call it the ‘ Welsh Open ’ if that title has not been used before .
10 Agreed to call it a night .
11 No , a carol No it i I 'm not going to call it in the programme that , I 'm going to call it a song for everyone .
12 I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day .
13 John and Maureen decided to call it a day .
14 Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day .
15 He decided to call it a day after doctors told him he had lost the other testicle .
16 Although we broke even , we could not pay our wages and decided to call it a day ’ .
17 She decided to call it a day .
18 By 1 p.m. we had another forty-five sheep on deck and decided to call it a day .
19 For health reasons , 69-year-old decided to call it a day on March 19 after working for five years in the semi-moist processing section .
20 The Indians ran out of arrows — they decided to call it a day
21 When I decide to call it a day , they 'll stop too . ’
22 ‘ Do you want to call it a night ? ’ asked Surkov , perhaps hopefully .
23 So he agreed to call it a day .
24 Mandy Yachad and Mark Rushmere made half centuries and when both sides agreed to call it a day the Invitation XI had reached 129–1 .
25 They would prefer to call it the .
26 The city council planned to call it the ‘ Queen Elizabeth Bridge ’ but the more assertive Protestants wanted a memorial to Lord Carson .
27 All His Own Work could have been the title of Stephen Coonts ' book , instead he chose to call it The Cannibal Queen ( Century Publishing , 344pp , illus , hbk , £16.99 ) .
28 If he does this easily enough we probably would not bother to call it a " problem " , but in a sense it is .
29 Its inhabitants liked to call it the Woldopolis and to regard it as the hub of life in that part of the East Riding .
30 The trophy became known as the Gordon Bennett Cup , although he preferred to call it the Coupe Internationale .
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