Example sentences of "they call the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expected models 52 and 54 will be fitted out with 50MHz SuperSparc+ chips , which Sun 's silicon partner Texas Instruments Inc is now producing in volume , and introduced under a new multiprocessing numbering scheme that will see them called the 512 and 514 respectively . |
| 2 | The mugged man even had to ask them to call the police , claimed the Victim Support group . |
| 3 | At the end of his judgment he said , at p. 356 , that mandamus would not lie to direct the benchers of Gray 's Inn to compel them to call the applicant , who was a student member of the Inn , to the degree of a barrister-at-law and added that , if there was a ground for mandamus , the party must take the ancient course of applying to the 12 judges . |
| 4 | I sent one of them to call the police . |
| 5 | And er we er tt we er we made er a lot of blackout stuff during the war , we had they called the Federation of British Industries , which was an annual fair at Birmingham , and my firm used to s used to exhibit there . |
| 6 | For Marx and Engels society was to be analysed in terms of the social organization of production , which in The German Ideology they called the division of labour . |
| 7 | They called the group the Kolbitar ( coal-biters ) , an Icelandic kenning which means those who sit around a fire . |
| 8 | The IRA said later that businessmen could not escape ‘ the reality of oppression in nationalist areas of Belfast ’ and they called the Lisburn street a prestige economic target . |
| 9 | Auntie Kate , as they called the old wife , proved ‘ a dear old soul , and of course the old boy , he used to tell us all stories about over the sea . ’ |
| 10 | Several of the men always stayed in a small hotel in Cairo in Suleiman Pasha Street run by a character they called the ‘ Honest Greek ’ . |
| 11 | They called the shots while we were still tiny , and they did n't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966 , just because it was a happening thing to do . |
| 12 | The Egyptians also used a plumb-line , which they called the ‘ Merkhet ’ , to determine the time at night . |
| 13 | Almost at the same time D. P. McKenzie of Cambridge and R. L. Parker of the Scripps Institution in America had come to much the same conclusions as Wilson and together these scientists were responsible for what they called the ‘ New Global Tectonics ’ . |
| 14 | The large brown tent was about 300 feet in length , with a seating capacity of some 750 , and they called the travelling performances Chatauqua . |
| 15 | And five hundred yards to the east , across the barren expanse of heath and moor , and the tiny stream they called the Goldbach , the men of the allied army would be doing the same . |
| 16 | John subsequently opened a training establishment with Will Bishop , a famous performer , which they called the ‘ Hygienic School of Dancing ’ . |
| 17 | They called the islands of Great Britain ‘ the Cassiterides ’ — from which was derived the name for tin oxide , cassiterite . |
| 18 | They called the film they made about me Too Long a Winter , and I have to declare immediately that I do not care for winter at all , for neither mind nor body agrees with it . |
| 19 | Mug up on a few details : whether they called the masters ‘ beaks ’ or ‘ dons ’ ; whether sweets were referred to as ‘ tuck ’ or ‘ sock ’ ; where you would have slept , in a ‘ house ’ or ‘ dorm ’ ; what barmy school game was played on them once a year . |
| 20 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 21 | In the end they called the child after Mrs Gracie 's dead sister Lilian . |
| 22 | They called the room where it hung the Centaur Room . |
| 23 | They called the boy Mikhail . |
| 24 | The fishermen were so enchanted by the scented air that they called the place ‘ Hong Kong ’ , which means in Chinese ‘ fragrant harbour ’ . |
| 25 | He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore . |
| 26 | They called the New York Times and said , ‘ We want to tell you quietly that the show you gave a rave review to is filled with fakes ’ . |
| 27 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 28 | One of their guidelines was what they called the correspondence principle , the requirement that classical mechanics should be recoverable for large systems . |
| 29 | In England they called the noises " the old man working " . |
| 30 | Led by the thought that the evidence of our senses is basic both in epistemology and in the theory of meaning , positivists such as Ayer proposed as a theory of meaning what they called the verification principle of empirical significance ( see Ayer , 1946 , and Schlick , 1936 ) : |