Example sentences of "[noun prp] called it the " in BNC.
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| 1 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 2 | Stephens called it the curve of least exertion , a design that was mathematically perfect for the use to which it was put . |
| 3 | We went upstairs — Rose called it the gods , because we were so near to heaven , I suppose , and the stage was so far away . ’ |
| 4 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 5 | Payment by results had some obvious advantages : Marx called it the most suitable form of wage-payment for capitalism . |
| 6 | Ryan called it the Iron Maiden . |
| 7 | Iain called it The Prison , and he began breaking out at weekends , finding his way back to Pinner , and Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 8 | James Joyce called it The Wine of the Country . |
| 9 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 10 | The sale of beer by the gaoler in late eighteenth-century Britain was apparently universal — Howard called it the ‘ tap ’ and seems to have regarded it as a necessary evil . |