Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [pron] call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There 's nothing higher than us for miles , or whatever you call those things ! |
2 | Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock . |
3 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
4 | What a fine piece of historical irony it would be if from the heart of this wounded part of Europe there were to emerge a politics that would begin to show us how to be at home in the world , decently balancing the requirements of social justice and economic sufficiency , of finite nature and what we call human nature . |
5 | Rosin and Glatt ( 1971 ) differentiated between primary factors which caused chronic , long-term alcohol abuse , chiefly pathological personality characteristics such as neuroticism , and what they called reactive factors which were particularly relevant for late-onset drinkers . |
6 | Heinsch saw sacred geometry and what he called sacred geography as being part of a continuum stretching out from the structure and form of the building into the surrounding countryside . |
7 | SHL Systemhouse , the new owner of the remains of Interactive Systems Corp — now minus the Lachman technology piece ( see front page ) — is targeting client/server computing and what it calls transformational outsourcing through its new buy , thinking competitor Anderson Consulting may be asleep at the switch . |