Example sentences of "[noun] call [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The islanders call it the Johnny rook . |
| 2 | More widely , engineers call it the concrete cancer . |
| 3 | The members of the committee call it the knobs and knockers committee . |
| 4 | Aston Martin call it the Virage Shooting Brake , a name with a certain ring to it . |
| 5 | Italians call it the ‘ Silent South ’ for this is a region of real peace and tranquility , where life is relaxed and full of simple pleasures . |
| 6 | She says : ‘ It was the only personal appearance I did , but now some of the crew call me The Opener . |
| 7 | The Greeks call them the Furies . |
| 8 | The huntsmen call it the Autumn Hunt . |
| 9 | Campaigners against the bridge call it the Yuppie Tennis Racket from Hell . |
| 10 | At a recent meeting of the , I believe the , first of the Estuaries Management Committee Meetings for the Orwell and the Stour I was approached by the R S P B representative and was delighted to be asked , how soon is the pamphlets that we 're jointly publishing coming out and I said , oh that 's a jolly good idea , what 's happening , and he tells me that the R Y A's name is to be published with the R S P B and this can do nothing but help our image as we will all appreciate in here , perhaps we need to remember that the gun clubs call themselves , the Gun and Convers Conservation Societies , the wide wise wild fowlers call themselves the Wild Fowlers and Conservation Societies , perhaps we should be the Royal Yachting and Conservation Society and join in with that R S P B publication for I believe quite a very small sum relative to the total outlay . |
| 11 | Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers . |
| 12 | People call them the Gharrgoyles . |
| 13 | Some people call it the ‘ Artisan Mannerism ’ style . |
| 14 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 15 | Some people call it the nook but you just sat on the jam stones . |
| 16 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 17 | Locals call it the yuppie tennis racket from hell . |
| 18 | IF EVEREST were a person — and Tibetans call it the Goddess Mother of the World — it might feel a bit put upon . |
| 19 | Policemen of my generation call them the funnies . ’ |
| 20 | Television commentators call it the biggest meeting outside the Olympics , and while that is an exaggerated accolade the standard of competition is amazingly high . |
| 21 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |