Example sentences of "call a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Originally bred as a draught animal , its milk has always been known for its quality ( if not quantity ) and it can fairly be called a dual-purpose breed . |
| 2 | And you can do it by taking one from t' other but more useful er , I would suggest , is to work out a planned performance or what I 've called a planned performance , er , this 'll be in your , in your notes as well , er which equals planned expenditure over planned er , income or allowance . |
| 3 | A mapping unc is called a binary operation on A. If unc and if unc we say that S is closed under ( or , with respect to ) ρ . |
| 4 | Such a tree is called a binary tree , and of course its branching ratio is 2 . |
| 5 | But it 's just , just called a many-one . |
| 6 | ‘ That could hardly be called a conciliatory speech , ’ said Isambard delicately . |
| 7 | Gary Nicholson was what Hoomey 's mother called a nasty rough boy . |
| 8 | The path taken by the stimulus is called a reflex arc . |
| 9 | Fluorescent lamps have what is called a negative voltage-current characteristic , This means that it is the nature of the discharge not to be self-sustaining . |
| 10 | To firm up their security against subsequent security interests created by the company and which would otherwise have priority , floating charges almost invariably contain a provision that restricts the right of the company to create charges that have priority to or rank equally with the floating charge ( called a negative pledge clause ) . |
| 11 | Still , ideas that the reflective pronoun herself and the item anyone which is called a negative polarity item , the item anyone needs to have something else in the sentence in order to license them they ca n't just occur freely in the normal position for er nouns , even though they are nouns . |
| 12 | With the country 's government paralysed , President Lech Walesa suspended parliament and called a new election for mid-September . |
| 13 | Japan 's government is deeply opposed to what America 's trade representative , Mickey Kantor , has called a new policy geared to ‘ quantifiable results ’ for some products . |
| 14 | It is called A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics ( 1980 ) . |
| 15 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 16 | Somewhere , occasionally , a heat-stupefied bird called a muted note . |
| 17 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 18 | A force which , as in this case , varies across a body is called a differential force , and a differential gravitational force is called a tidal force . |
| 19 | Resolving the gravitational force due to the star tangential to OA gives zero for A , while for B the force has a component towards A. Therefore there is a relative acceleration between A and B given by which is independent of the masses of A and B. Such an acceleration is called a differential or tidal acceleration ; it is unaffected by the choice of reference frame . |
| 20 | But nineteen thirteen I went to this examination and it was called a Labour Examination , and if you were able to pass this examination you could leave school at thirteen . |
| 21 | Her eyes swept across his face , and suddenly she had the almost overwhelming desire to tell him that it was n't important at all , that she was , inside , what he 'd called a real woman , one who wanted a home and children to fill it , and most of all a husband , a man who would take her in his arms and kiss her until nothing mattered except him , kiss her as Nicolo had , make her want him as she 'd wanted Nicolo … |
| 22 | The latest Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society resolves a question that came to light in the days of Lord Rayleigh , who showed how an idealised object called a black body radiates heat and light energy . |
| 23 | Hope perceived this as acutely as anyone else ; he had experienced being called a black bastard , being physically abused , being spat at , being excluded . |
| 24 | The region from which it is not possible to escape is called a black hole , and its boundary is called the event horizon . |
| 25 | The region would become what is called a black hole . |
| 26 | This region is called a black hole . |
| 27 | This is the phenomenon called a black hole and is the subject of Chapter 9 . |
| 28 | ‘ He comes from what in England is called a good family . |
| 29 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 30 | Use a length of wool and a sewing needle with a very large eye ( called a darning needle ) . |