Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] call [det] " in BNC.

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1 If I wanted to be pretentious , I might call this paper an investigation of the sociology of literature .
2 I 'm not sure I 'd call that modern word processing .
3 A million pounds , I 'd call that paying him .
4 Yes I 'd call that a hun I 'd go along with that at a hundred and five .
5 ‘ I 'm not sure I 'd call those ‘ being addicted to danger ’ .
6 I 'd call this place a hole-in-the-wall operation .
7 This , then , was the situation on what I shall call that Friday , early in the northern summer of 1984 .
8 The rules about standing need to be considered in relation to three types of judicial review actions : I shall call these private actions , public actions and hybrid actions .
9 I shall call these , for brevity , the virtues of fairness , justice , and procedural due process .
10 I shall call this third kind ‘ semiotic difference ’ .
11 For convenience of reference I shall call this idea of transgression humanist .
12 I shall call this response ‘ conservative ’ .
13 I shall call this ‘ the intervention notice . ’
14 I shall call this effect solar choking of the flow .
15 I shall call this ‘ archival DNA ’ .
16 For ease of reference I shall call both reasons of this character and the reasons they are meant to reflect dependent reasons .
17 You might call that cheating I call it improving one 's exhibit
18 Cold , she 'd call that .
19 I said , but if you 're willing to sacrifice to keep all them lot happy I said and you 'd call most
20 I suppose you 'd call these ‘ upper mid-range ’ in price , but they both sound great and they both sound very different .
21 Now that I am working in Edinburgh you could call this brief report a ‘ Capital Update ’ !
22 If you like labels , you could call this new group the ‘ developmentalists ’ .
23 Chaplin grasped the whole complexity of the human heart , its goodness , its beastliness — and you dare call that rubbish !
24 ‘ Religious objections , if you can call that superstitious rubbish a religion .
25 I hardly think you can call that a child ! ’
26 Well let us explore it first and see what the issues are and then if there 's any dispute then , then you can call another meeting at the February sales meeting we can discuss it
27 If you want to contact someone you get their home phone number as well as the office , and you can call any time .
28 Well I think it was the maternity because I mean she had had eleven pregnancies so I think she she was very , very erm able to talk about it and I , I do n't , I know Dad had got a good job in the , well if you can call any pit job a good job , but say that the money was decent , but I know that she always had to have two doctors and it was , it was in those days we were , it was good we were in a doctor 's club because , you know , you had n't got any er the maternity and , and the , and the ante- natal and pre-natal and goodness knows what that we 've got today .
29 We may call this the rigorist interpretation or version of utilitarianism .
30 We may call this , for convenience of reference , the principle of substitution .
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