Example sentences of "[pron] calls [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Maybe you should talk ter Albert Buller when 'e calls next time , ’ he suggested . |
| 2 | Julia P. Herzberg , who calls these pictures ‘ representations of winged beings at once military , aristocratic and religious , gives this explanation of their raison d'être : |
| 3 | On 1 January 1982 a Government Decree made it lawful for private trading by ‘ collaboration of persons for economic purposes ’ , and indeed the 1988 Act itself calls unlimited partnerships where only individual persons participate the same name . |
| 4 | SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch . |
| 5 | IBM Corp is expected to announce today that it is switching to what it calls value-based pricing for mainframe software , charging on either a per-user or elapsed time used basis ; the company issued a cryptic statement in response to the Financial Times story alleging that Louis Gerstner had put the break-up of IBM on hold , saying that Gerstner had not said such a thing for public consumption and that he had no plans to do so . |
| 6 | InfoNow Corp , Boulder , Colorado pioneer of what it calls electronic commerce , using digital technology such as CD-ROM , new media , security , encryption , digital transmission to deliver products , has completed a private placing of stock , raising gross proceeds of $1.65m . |
| 7 | The League , in a report on the KKK , cites what it calls secret meetings in North Carolina and Arkansas of the two most powerful Klans , the Invisible Empire and the KKK Knights , where leaders , including Thomas Robb , Slater 's mentor , told members to begin lowering the racist rhetoric and avoid lawsuits . |
| 8 | Texas Instruments Inc has developed a new low-cost multi-chip packaging technology it calls Multichip Module Laminate/Overlay in which the key element is Polyimide plastic . |
| 9 | In the enterprise of seeking to understand consciousness as something more manageable and decently scientific than what it calls ghostly stuff , it is understood as yet less than ghostly stuff . |
| 10 | In a brief discussion of the use of tense in English and Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 ) points out that some verbs refer to what is stated in the academic paper itself ( these he calls indicative verbs ) , while other verbs refer to what was actually done in the research on which the paper reports ( these he calls informative verbs ) . |
| 11 | Quine takes his start not from the familiar case but from what he calls radical translation ( see Quine , 1960 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 12 | George Brown in Human Teaching for Human Learning describes a project based on what he calls Confluent Education . |
| 13 | He draws attention to what he calls multiple estates , that is large areas of land made up of smaller units — the territories referred to later . |
| 14 | Wicked foolishness , he calls that sort of talk . |
| 15 | So brief is the note , and couched in such general terms , that it is difficult to base much upon it , but worth noting are the facts that he clearly saw his choice as lying in the normal way between tedris and kaza , which he calls two paths or careers ; that a signal disadvantage of teaching was that it was unremunerative ; and , not least , that , unable to contemplate either alternative , he was able to find a home for his talents and interests in the bureaucracy . |
| 16 | In a brief discussion of the use of tense in English and Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 ) points out that some verbs refer to what is stated in the academic paper itself ( these he calls indicative verbs ) , while other verbs refer to what was actually done in the research on which the paper reports ( these he calls informative verbs ) . |
| 17 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
| 18 | The difference between the two he calls transitory income ( Y T ) . |
| 19 | First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship . |
| 20 | Those of you who saw today will know that he calls this position the Adam and Eve position . |
| 21 | He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world . |
| 22 | Paul started making the sofas he calls driving seats last Spring and he 's already sold thirty.Some have gone abroad to Canada , the United States and Germany . |
| 23 | 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 : |
| 24 | Paul started making the sofas he calls driving seats last Spring and he 's already sold thirty.Some have gone abroad to Canada , the United States and Germany . |
| 25 | Distinguishing between what he calls natural meaning ( as in Those black clouds mean rain ) , and non-natural meaning or meaning.nn ( equivalent to the notion of intentional communication ) , Grice gives the following characterization of meaning-nn ( 10 ) S meant-nn z by uttering U if and only if : ( i ) S intended U to cause some effect z in recipient H ( ii ) S intended ( i ) to be achieved simply by H recognizing that intention ( i ) Here , S stands for speaker ( in the case of spoken communication ; for sender or communicator in other cases ) ; H for hearer , or more accurately , the intended recipient ; " uttering U " for utterance of a linguistic token , i.e. a sentence part , sentence , or string of sentences or sentence parts ( or the production of non-linguistic communicative acts ) ; and z for ( roughly ) some belief or volition invoked in H. |
| 26 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |
| 27 | Mixing these two mediums , he has created what he calls Big Beat Poetry — thoughtful lyrics , dynamic raps , soulful melodies , harmonicas , flutes , much-favoured acoustic guitars and hints of reggae . |
| 28 | Adversarial activity is what calls local government into being . |