Example sentences of "[noun] call [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One critic called it the Tate Gallery of the south west with works by Lowry , Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland displayed alongside local art . |
| 2 | Nothing signifies for him , yet he seizes on details with a toneless precision , almost pedantry : when Raskolnikov calls him a gambler he says he is actually a card-sharper . |
| 3 | So , so are the kind of reasons why Moscavisi calls them the black books . |
| 4 | The reviewer called him a ‘ Joycean Hell 's Angel ’ who had created from the tawdry San Francisco Tenderloin district ‘ an unnerving and utterly persuasive rendition of hell ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ Clive Griffiths , the Welsh coach , may persuade me to play against France in a few weeks ' time but I have made up my mind to call it a day , ’ he said last night . |
| 6 | The islanders call it the Johnny rook . |
| 7 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |
| 8 | The law 's supporters call it a victory for truth in advertising , which they predict will protect the market for authentic Indian crafts from cheap imported imitations . |
| 9 | Hall called it a ‘ mixed commission ’ with members chosen as the representatives of various interested bodies . |
| 10 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 11 | Miss Eames calls me an old-fashioned word : Dunce . |
| 12 | A twentieth century writer on church architecture called it a ‘ pretentious pseudo-classical building ’ whose principal feature was the famous ‘ Great White Pulpit ’ ’ . |
| 13 | Elsewhere , the main instrument for this capture of control by the notables — an English diplomat called them the gentry — was the election of Juntas . |
| 14 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 15 | Marius called me a ‘ mukis keele ’ , which meant ‘ soft boy ’ or ‘ mother 's boy ’ in his native tongue . |
| 16 | Stephens called it the curve of least exertion , a design that was mathematically perfect for the use to which it was put . |
| 17 | Brazil called it a step backward in international relations and Mexico called for an immediate cessation of hostilities . |
| 18 | More widely , engineers call it the concrete cancer . |
| 19 | The members of the committee call it the knobs and knockers committee . |
| 20 | Sometimes women at work call her a fat Irish pig . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 22 | Walzer calls it the ‘ problem of citizenship ’ and he expresses deep doubts that the ideal of participatory active citizenship can be realised . |
| 23 | " There 's something I call a blue-wing , " said Emily , boldly , pleased to be joining in a conversation in which she was proud to see John taking such an active part , " and my uncle Tom calls it a blue-back . " |
| 24 | The teacher called it a springboard . |
| 25 | It is in that recognition ( Althusser calls it a ‘ mirror structure ’ ) that the subject is constituted . |
| 26 | Then the ginger kitten I hid in the garden shed and mother found it and there was a monumental scene and Helen called her a beast ; funny , I can hear it now , mother going on about the kitten and Helen suddenly exploding and mother 's face . |
| 27 | Lord Goff referred to multidisciplinary partnerships as ‘ most objectionable ’ , and Lord Griffiths called them a ‘ profound mistake ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 29 | And I did not like to hear Rupert call me a play-actor . |
| 30 | Tom called his the ‘ Quadriplane ’ and , when the individual kites were only 40cm ( 16in ) apart and flying as one , they would lift 10kg ( 221b ) in a moderate-to-fresh breeze . |