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 | Well , his which is a brute of a delivery and the , the new directive of course Dickie Bird immediately called it normal . |
| 3 | His cockney friends would have called it honest endeavour in a dishonest world . |
| 4 | Erm , we 've called it Critical Application Software . |
| 5 | ‘ Other people called it International Times or even ‘ eye tee ’ ‘ , says Miles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Her doctor called it rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 8 | As skipper Ian Butterworth said : ‘ If we had been top after six games you could have called it lucky — but not after 17 matches . |
| 9 | Spokesmen of the French government called it null and void . |
| 10 | How about calling it good old spliff or draw or even marijuana ? |
| 11 | Fielding suggested calling it Good Money in the States and Bad Money in Europe , but I could n't see the percentage in that . |
| 12 | But senators opposed to the bases vowed to block its passage , calling it illegal . |
| 13 | I 'll settle for calling it beaten . |
| 14 | Making a joke of it , by slapping the sink and calling it naughty , might have defused the situation . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | They were reducing it , they would be calling it childish in a minute . |
| 18 | Then was down in Middlesbrough for a couple of days that week , and er , I think amused everybody by calling it miserable all the time , I dread to think what . |
| 19 | She calls it corrective training . |
| 20 | Alone in my cabin , then I got comfortable , put all troublesome thoughts out of my mind , and switched on the vid to one of the best of what the vid expressively calls it Everlasting Serials . |
| 21 | he always calls it lamade or something in the morning , do n't you ? |
| 22 | The right wing says it was a good thing , Japan 's going into Manchuria to develop it ; the left wing calls it bad . |
| 23 | More generally , Arrow ( 1984 ) calls it hidden information or hidden knowledge — the principal does not know all that the agent knows . |
| 24 | and whether one calls it fair and objective argument |
| 25 | The Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications has released figures relating to planned investment in equipment by the Japanese telecommunications industry in fiscal 1993 , which ends next month ( Japan confusingly calls it fiscal 1992 ) . |
| 26 | Next time you get a letter from me and feel inclined to belittle my style , remember that the leading journal of the world calls it noble . |
| 27 | Bristol calls it Red Baron after Snoopy 's nemesis in the Peanuts comic strip . |
| 28 | I would n't call it healthy eating . |
| 29 | We can call it liberal bourgeois civilization , and a fuller picture of its nature will emerge later in this book . |
| 30 | Mena 's everyday face is just stubborn , you could call it proud — she 's a countrywoman from a good province as they say — but Anna took to it , she did take to people — her infatuations Constanza says — she took to my father when he was a very young man and he was n't so good-looking either . |