Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] call the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the shadow of a multi-storey and conspicuously carbuncular car park sit large licensed premises called the Middlesbrough Cycling Club CIU affiliated . |
| 2 | In Denmark , Sweden and Norway the trade unions work together in similarly long-established federations called the National Organisations ( Landsorganisationen , or LO ) which exist not only for manual employees but with separate confederations for white-collar and professional workers . |
| 3 | I refer him to a pamphlet that was published in the mid-1980s by an obscure group of Back-Bench MPs called the No Turning Back group . |
| 4 | This desolation is known as the Chaos Wastes or the Northern Wastes , and is surrounded in turn by only slightly less corrupted lands of distorted trees and broken rocks called the Troll Country . |
| 5 | The spaced out and rather dangerous reefs called the Fladdacaps and the Billians all hold small groups of moulting eider and all were checked and counted until finally , after rounding the Hoo Stack , we headed for home , running before the rising wind . |
| 6 | The jewellery and antique shops of the famous winding alleyways called the Lanes continue to serve discriminating tastes . |
| 7 | This itself is built up from long chains of sugar and phosphate molecules to which are attached nitrogen-containing molecules called the nucleotide bases . |
| 8 | But the north of the country has a range of pleasant , wooded hills called the Ardennes . |
| 9 | In 1833 Turner erected large premises called the Hammersmith Iron Works , south of Dublin in Ballsbridge . |
| 10 | In May 1991 the Chinese Communist Party ( CCP ) alleged that Huchin Togos and Wang Manglai headed illegal organisations called the ‘ Preparatory Committee of the Ih Ju League Ethnic Culture Association ’ and the ‘ Institute for Ethnic Modernization in Bayan Nur League ’ . |
| 11 | On the one hand , you have acquired rational knowledge established by analysis , by polarity , and , on the other , the holistic — what the ancient Egyptians called the knowledge of the heart . |
| 12 | There are two parts to Egypt , the desert and the river , what the ancient Egyptians called the Red Land and the Black Land . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose you know the Trunchbull has a lock-up cupboard in her private quarters called The Chokey ? |
| 14 | The classical economists called the equilibrium level of employment the ‘ full employment ’ level . |
| 15 | Lying in the clear aquamarine waters of the Atlantic ocean to the east of Florida are a cluster of idyllic islands called The Bahamas . |
| 16 | Identical pitfalls await the student of what political scientists call the ‘ overload ’ problem in government when he or she attempts to read into the past harbingers of difficulties which subsequently became acute . |
| 17 | Most of the museum 's present exhibits date from the era of Polish Stalinism , when communist historiographers called the Holocaust the ‘ culmination of capitalism ’ rather than a crime against all humanity , and a special crime against the Jews . |
| 18 | To the north of Petersfield is a series of steep-sided hills called the Hampshire Hangers . |
| 19 | To someone such as I , who had the vague but tenacious idea that Indians communicated in pictures only , a fragile method , it is pleasant to see that one scholar of native American languages calls the manuscripts ‘ the largest corpus of texts ’ of them and ‘ a remarkable resource ’ . |
| 20 | Nearby at 2/165 is a charming Renaissance house with typical Bohemian gables called the House of the Golden Swan . |
| 21 | I went to university at the Sorbonne in Paris , entered the royal service , and joined the French crown 's legion of secret agents called the Luciferi , the Light-Bearers . |
| 22 | There 's this lot of weird aliens called the Sproati and they decide to invade Earth " |
| 23 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 24 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 25 | MILLIONS of black South Africans went on strike yesterday in what anti-apartheid movements called the biggest stoppage in the country 's history . |
| 26 | North African Christians called the bishop of Carthage papa , but his colleague at Rome was ‘ bishop of Rome ’ . |
| 27 | They were initially developed er from a , a salt machine again like the , the other ones called the Griswald a little hand , salt machine you used to turn like that and make salt . |
| 28 | It is separated from the Trans-Himalayan zone and the Tibetan Plateau to the north by the structurally controlled valleys of the Indus and the Brahmaputra ( in its upper reaches called the Tsangpo ) and to the south it is bounded by the sediment-filled peripheral foreland basin of the Indo-Gangetic plain . |
| 29 | Hilton sees this destruction as a continual process , but he also recognises in it a major stage that other mystics call the " dark night of the senses " a particularly sharp period of suffering during which the will is firmly dislodged from false values and reoriented towards God . |
| 30 | Secondly , the suitably defiant-sounding Women Call the Shots series screened by Channel 4 in 1990 demonstrated that there is a whole world out there of women 's cinematic practices which has hardly yet had a look-in from the predominantly White and Western body of academic feminist criticism and theory . |