Example sentences of "call it [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's perhaps the only committee , if one dare call it a committee of this council , where the chief officer has n't troubled to come to the budget review and represent the interests of his committee . |
| 2 | Let's call it a flash of colour in a world of twits . |
| 3 | The charge extends to an infinitesimal distance in the z direction so we shall call it a surface charge . |
| 4 | I suppose you would call it a truss in English . |
| 5 | The first is the lack of experiments — some might call it a betrayal of science teaching . |
| 6 | She was in limbo and would be for the rest of her life , if you could call it a life , dragging out its weary length with no more great joys or fearful griefs for her , for her blood was running too thin to bear them . |
| 7 | I think I 'd call it a day long before I found myself turning part of my humble dwelling into the bridge of the Starship Enterprise , but one thing is certain : I 'd have Julian Colbeck 's video series close at hand before boldly going forth ! |
| 8 | The Colonel checked with Bill Copland whether they should call it a day : ‘ Certainly not ’ was-the Major 's assured reply , for all felt the confidence of success . |
| 9 | Let's call it a day . ’ |
| 10 | But what about when she does eventually call it a day . |
| 11 | The fair man whispered to her , ‘ One final piece and then we 'll call it a day . |
| 12 | So let's call it a day — OK ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 14 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 15 | Would n't he call it a day , and let me go home ? |
| 16 | ‘ We 'll call it a day shortly , ’ he said , almost as though he read her thoughts . |
| 17 | We 've got ta call it , call it a day now . |
| 18 | We might call it a day at the end of the assignments and take Jenny 's away to recap , erm lets get to the end of the assignments first , Q P9 . |
| 19 | ‘ We may as well call it a day now , though . |
| 20 | A quick handshake , and a heartfelt tribute to the beauty of his voice , and she could call it a day and go home gracefully . |
| 21 | So do the four role plays then all come back here at twenty past six for a debrief and then we 'll call it a day . |
| 22 | the swing and I 've bought them a couple of wooden puzzles where you pick the bits up so , I thought well then I 'll call it a day there , and that 'll be that |
| 23 | Oh I think we might call it a day at this with the tapes record this tape |
| 24 | ‘ You could call it a return to drama for the Plymouth , ’ say the organisers . |
| 25 | Now , one of the successes that the media 's had , if you can call it a success , is to link socialism and losers together . |
| 26 | I am arguing for something far more significant than that , and we might call it a case for ecological morality . |
| 27 | there in your then do I call it a toupee or a wig or |
| 28 | When the train stopped he dragged his heavy suitcase onto the platform ; if you could call it a platform because it was only some wooden planks resting on a pile of milkcrates . |
| 29 | ‘ Do n't call it a do , ’ Claire said . |
| 30 | We heard that claim , I would call it a slur , at the last election . |