Example sentences of "call it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In response to the handling of the elections , Belgrade 's official Socialist Youth Organization called it anti-democratic . |
| 2 | We have a management plan now - and we have n't called it that before . |
| 3 | just as cliché haunted Henry 's daily journey to the train , his socks from Marks and Spencers ' , his regular nightly bedtime , his fondness for a cup of tea at ten thirty in the evening , just as he seemed to be destined to be as remorselessly English as the plane trees in the street outside or the homecoming commuters clacking through the twilight towards the village , so his one existential act ( had n't someone called it that ? ) seemed destined for suburban predictability . |
| 4 | I thought all spacers called it that . ’ |
| 5 | He 'd called their previous alliance interesting , but she would not have called it that . |
| 6 | Defoe in his time called it one of the finest cities in Europe . |
| 7 | Well , his which is a brute of a delivery and the , the new directive of course Dickie Bird immediately called it normal . |
| 8 | His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world . |
| 9 | Boswell measured the water journey from Glenelg as twelve miles ; the boatman called it six miles , confusing old logical Johnson with the assertion that a mile on the land equated to two on the sea . |
| 10 | Erm , we 've called it Critical Application Software . |
| 11 | ‘ Other people called it International Times or even ‘ eye tee ’ ‘ , says Miles . |
| 12 | You could not have called it grey , it was of some colour that had never been given a name , and it glowed as if the moon and stars were behind the skin of it , waiting to break through . |
| 13 | Her doctor called it rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 14 | As skipper Ian Butterworth said : ‘ If we had been top after six games you could have called it lucky — but not after 17 matches . |
| 15 | Spokesmen of the French government called it null and void . |
| 16 | How about calling it good old spliff or draw or even marijuana ? |
| 17 | Fielding suggested calling it Good Money in the States and Bad Money in Europe , but I could n't see the percentage in that . |
| 18 | But senators opposed to the bases vowed to block its passage , calling it illegal . |
| 19 | I thought of calling it that , in fact . |
| 20 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance by 60% over the previous version as measured on an eight-way system . |
| 21 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to release 2.2 for Sparc ( although it is not officially calling it that ) , and that should be up on all new systems from May . |
| 22 | SunSoft has enhanced Solaris 2.0 to 2.2 ( though it 's not officially calling it that ) boosting symmetric multiprocessing performance 60% over the previous version as measured on an 8-way . |
| 23 | He is stuck with this answer to the second question because he holds ( as does Hare , but not Ayer ) that what one is saying about something when one calls it x is identical with one 's reason for calling it x . |
| 24 | I 'll settle for calling it beaten . |
| 25 | Not since they started calling it another Wayne 's World . |
| 26 | Making a joke of it , by slapping the sink and calling it naughty , might have defused the situation . |
| 27 | Mesic ( its president ) responded by calling it unconstitutional , and said that those attending " will have joined the putsch " — a reference to the Serbian parliament 's adoption on Sept. 27 of a document on the future form of Yugoslavia , based on consultations between Serbia , Montenegro and representatives of Serbian areas of Bosnia-Hercegovina , which the parliament declared open to agreement by other republics . |
| 28 | The theory seems to be ( 1 ) that some act — noticing a resemblance — must precede uttering the word ‘ white ’ for the person who utters the word genuinely to be describing the object , and not merely coming out with the words , ‘ It 's white ’ as might a parrot , no matter what it was shown ; and ( 2 ) that the resemblance the theory requires one to have noticed , which is supposed to justify one 's calling it white as opposed , say , to blue , is what one is referring to when one calls the object ‘ white ’ . |
| 29 | They were reducing it , they would be calling it childish in a minute . |
| 30 | ‘ If you 're — uh — gay , as they insist on calling it these days , then I 'll just have to accept it , but I shall always blame myself , always wonder where I went wrong with you , wonder whether it was that school I sent you to , I was never sure if it was a mistake or ’ |