Example sentences of "call [art] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Apart from the bad , there is another category that might be called the gloriously bad or the awfully bad : one thinks of all those collections of groan-producing puns and nonsensical jokes and riddles .
2 The period between 1939 to 1949 has been called the most productive and significant period in Canadian letters to date , which matches the ‘ 10 Lost Years ’ of the post-Depression period exactly .
3 And so the house today is ready to face the future , and new generations of young and old will continue to make the special journey from all corners of the earth to see what is justifiably called the most wonderful dolls ' house in the world .
4 Bodiam has been called the most romantic castle ruin in the whole of England .
5 RICHARD PHELPS , 29 , has been called the most consistent pentathlete in the world .
6 ‘ It is n't for nothing that he was called the most dangerous man in the galaxy . ’
7 He had studied the plays exhaustively , and published in 1765 a new edition whose Preface has been called the most famous Shakespearean essay ever written .
8 The Van Cliburn Piano Competition is now often called the most important piano competition in the world .
9 That gag was consciously played for laughs , of course , but the really funny thing is that the pioneering Australian brands which were on the shelves in the ‘ 70s were actually called the much more comical names of Kanga Rouge and Wallaby wine .
10 Consider , first , what might be called the radically mentalist viewpoint , which is shared by both ontological idealists and ontological dualists .
11 There was a tricky thing called the seminally defiled state , and you had to make sure that when your old lady left the house she was doing so for a specific purpose , but on the whole even Marwan was pretty laissez-faire about a girl and a boy talking about subjects of mutual interest .
12 It is a burden that Russia could do without , but at least it is far cheaper than maintaining an army of occupation in what Richard III might have called the very long winter of discontent .
13 Calling the most important political movement since the rise of Socialism a load of eco-freaks does n't give you any credit and just gets me annoyed .
14 Already sumo experts are calling the equally athletic and handsome Takahanada a worthy replacement .
15 It also has a new entry-level desktop configuration , the 30LC , that it calls the lowest cost multiprocessing-capable machine available at $16,000 .
16 It also has a new entry-level desktop configuration , the 30LC , which it calls the lowest cost multiprocessing-capable machine available at $16,000 .
17 Sir : Marcel Berlins ( ' Good men and generous ' ; Law , 29 September ) calls the absurdly high awards made by juries in libel actions ‘ inexplicable ’ .
18 Late last night , anxious police called a hastily arranged news conference to issue an urgent warning to the gay community .
19 To reach Bauen take the road that crosses the Reuss valley to the far side of railway , motorway and river heading for Seedorf Near Seedorf on the valley plain stands a picturesque gabled eighteenthcentury castle called A Fro after the Ticinese knight who had it built ; it is now used for occasions of state by the canton .
20 but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not .
21 That 's called a now .
22 Appearances were deceptive and her own mother looked handsome and smart and had what people called a very sweet expression .
23 It was a late abortion it did n't work straight away , it m probably the baby died but it did n't come away from her you see and er , it was a shame , but she oh she was called a very bad woman you know because her husband was fighting for his country and and er you know .
24 Bob Kernohan would not object to being called a very conservative Conservative .
25 Returning to mathematics for a moment , it 's often been called a very difficult subject .
26 Choreographers however should avoid what can be called a purely technical analysis of the music by matching particular patterns of steps to particular musical phrases whenever they appear .
27 Calls a rather harsh , sharp ‘ kek-kek-kek ’ and ‘ ka-ka-ka ’ .
28 calling a more senior member of staff
29 An energy source which could potentially supply up to ten times our energy needs for several thousand years is called an indefinitely sustainable energy source .
30 It is here that the ingenious suggestion of Finsinger and Vogelsang ( 1981 ) comes in , to provide what might be called an almost ideal constraint .
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