Example sentences of "[Wh det] he call a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intention of the government , as remembered in evidence to the Royal Commission on Local Government in 1925 , was ‘ to set up in nearly every County a Local Authority which he called a provincial Parliament ’ ( quoted in Hampton 1966:463 ) . |
| 2 | I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible : |
| 3 | The Secretary of State repeated several times that we need such a scale of weaponry to provide what he calls a credible deterrent . |
| 4 | Now he works from what he calls a glorified shed . |
| 5 | He felt sure there would n't be a better time to make what he called a good metsieh . |
| 6 | He had kindly invited us to what he called a light lunch , which consisted of an egg dish , lamb cutlets , a pudding , cheese and a dessert of frosted redcurrants , all served by a bearded butler and two footmen in naval battledress . |
| 7 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |