Example sentences of "[adv] call a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes wrongly called a second-order transition but we shall show below that this is an incorrect use of language . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 3 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 4 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 5 | But it 's just , just called a many-one . |
| 6 | The spiteful Head Girl had deliberately called a sudden rehearsal . |
| 7 | Like Althusser , Foucault was once called a structuralist , but although he shows great interest in structures ( including the structures of thought and of ‘ discourse ’ in different ages ) he differs significantly from both Althusser and other struc-turalists , often being described consequently as ‘ post-structuralist ’ — and ‘ post-Marxist ’ and ‘ post-modernist ’ as well . |
| 8 | The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court , formerly called a juvenile court . |
| 9 | Nationalists had also called a one-day general strike for Oct. 1 against the proposed new union treaty , but only in the West Ukraine did this attract anything more than patchy support . |
| 10 | Compaoré had also called a round table meeting of 24 political parties on June 11 , but representatives of 13 of them walked out , protesting that Compaoré viewed the meeting as consultative rather than as a sovereign decision-making body . |
| 11 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 12 | In spite of this , the words ‘ buyer beware ’ still carry a very real warning in one type of purchase and that is what is colloquially called a private sale . |
| 13 | For example , in Cureton 's analysis of iambic pentameter in Chapter 5 , all lines metrically begin weak-strong-weak , even those having what is traditionally called a reversed first foot . |
| 14 | It is emphasising these offerings rather than the connectivity software products for which it is traditionally known — what it now calls a secondary stream . |
| 15 | The magistrates have now called a pre-sentence report -- and he 'll be summoned back to court for sentencing on November the Ninth . |
| 16 | The next morning a telephone call came through from Number 10 just before 8.30 a.m. calling a special Cabinet meeting at 9.45 to discuss the Falklands . |
| 17 | D. Many merchants have seen the advantages of using the raw materials which are unloaded at a port — often called a trans-shipment point . |
| 18 | A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is often called a stoichiometric process Many ionic reactions produce quantitative yields . |
| 19 | When you are interviewed for a job which may involve press relations ( and most do ) your potential employer will often call a few journalists on major publications to see what reaction they have to your name . |
| 20 | The government had let it be known on Sept. 30 that it would not now call a general election in 1991 . |
| 21 | Ian Philpot , whose girlfriend was one of the 51 people who died , says Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson must now call a public enquiry . |
| 22 | Although the concept of what we now call a black hole goes back more than two hundred years , the name black hole was introduced only in 1967 by the American physicist John Wheeler . |
| 23 | This region is what we now call a black hole . |
| 24 | As long ago as 1750 , some astronomers were suggesting that the appearance of the Milky Way could be explained if most of the visible stars lie in a single dislike configuration , one example of what we now call a spiral galaxy . |
| 25 | The ability of a prime minister effectively to call a general election has been regarded by some writers as the most important weapon in ensuring parliamentary support . |
| 26 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 27 | She successfully sought a venue for the meeting at the university and then called a phone-in Irish radio chat show to recruit support . |
| 28 | A is then called a proper subset of B. Thus we write unc according to the emphasis required . |
| 29 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 30 | If f : unc is 1-1 and onto B , f is sometimes called a 1-1 correspondence . |