Example sentences of "he calls " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another is Ryszard Kapuscinski , an expert in what he calls ‘ confusion ’ , who has attended twenty-seven revolutions in the Third World . |
| 2 | The kind he likes he calls ‘ detail ’ , as opposed to ‘ long shots ’ — the equivalent , that is , of the long shots over-used by cameramen of the Iranian Revolution : ‘ it is through details that everything can be shown ’ — that truth can be shown . |
| 3 | This , he suggests , is a time when we have witnessed the ending of the construct of what he calls , ‘ the homogeneity of man ’ which was a product of a special political climate that has now passed . |
| 4 | He calls McHarg the factor ‘ his man ’ . |
| 5 | So , to introduce Fodor 's terminology , the mechanisms for delivering up packaged information about the world ( a parsed sentence , a representation of a three-dimensional object … ) he calls the input systems . |
| 6 | Flavell accounts for this paradox in terms of , what he calls , cognitive salience , which amounts to the claim that the thought of the three-year-old is determined by whatever is ‘ up front in consciousness ’ at any given moment . |
| 7 | Indeed , Terence Hawkes has defined and defended what he calls ‘ paperback research ’ as a proper activity for those who lack the scholarly resources of the ancient universities . |
| 8 | It seems no more than a charming anecdote , but when Professor Davie cites Bunting 's tale in Under Briggflatts , his history of British poetry since 1960 , he calls the incident ‘ challenging ’ . |
| 9 | He calls back , ‘ I 've no idea . ’ |
| 10 | Supposedly , Mr Rogich arrived in the White House yesterday to re-style the President 's image ; to bring back razzmatazz to what he calls ‘ the beautiful people ’ in the Bush cabinet . |
| 11 | In fact , thanks largely to Sir Robin Day — ‘ the Grand Inquisitor ’ , as he calls himself in the title of his new book — the impression that the average viewer probably has of politics on television is that it is predominantly adversarial . |
| 12 | Without fair warning he calls on Helen Mirren , hitherto muffled by the black flounces of his cosmology , to produce raw feeling , love even , loss and rage . |
| 13 | He calls St John 's gospel ‘ the most beautiful book in the world ’ . |
| 14 | Androgyny , or what he calls the ‘ liberal supposition ’ that it is good for men and women to become more and more alike , creates in Mailer an aversion , ‘ a species of aesthetic nausea ’ ( pp. 134 — 5 ) . |
| 15 | In ‘ The Psychogenesis of a Case of Homosexuality in a Woman ’ Freud announces a newly discovered ‘ cause ’ of homosexuality , what he calls ‘ retiring in favour of someone else ’ . |
| 16 | My own study is indebted to Fanon 's analysis of how discrimination is internalized psychically and perpetuated socially between subordinated groups , classes , and races — what , in relation to the latter , he calls ‘ the racial distribution of guilt ’ ( Black Skin , 103 ) ; also to his realization of the way the demonizing of the other is , above all , a mercurial process of displacement and condensation , so fluid yet always with effects of a brutally material , actually violent kind . |
| 17 | The first such combination to be considered is one which he calls the ‘ Germanic ’ mode of production , ( ‘ mode of production ’ , in this work , meaning social evolutionary stage ) . |
| 18 | The main element of this discussion again comes from Morgan and concerns the description of what he calls the ‘ gentile constitution ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Meeting over , ’ he calls out . |
| 20 | Cos I 'm thinking so much about Christmas and that , I do n't see this old bloke till he calls out to me . |
| 21 | ‘ Give us a hand , son , ’ he calls out . |
| 22 | All innocence , he calls out ‘ Good old England . |
| 23 | Darras and his wife live in English , as he calls it , one of his sons in German and when they go down the street , they live in French . |
| 24 | In a very timely book , Israel 's Fateful Decisions , published shortly before the Intifada broke out , the Israeli scholar , General Yehoshavat Harkabi , wrote that for a settlement to be possible , both sides must first renounce their respective dreams or ‘ grand designs ’ — for the Zionists , the ‘ redemption ’ of all the Land of Israel , for the Palestinians , the ‘ liberation ’ of all the territory that once was theirs — and thereby end what he calls the absolute , ‘ existential ’ nature of the struggle . |
| 25 | He agreed to take out what he calls two innocent chapters on his work in MI5 but insisted on keeping in his views on the need for oversight . |
| 26 | He may well be right that what he calls ‘ the Holbornisation ’ of the area will suck the life out of Spitalfields after all . |
| 27 | When did he start getting into what he calls ‘ entertainment music , although some might call it corn ’ ? |
| 28 | His prime shorts are what he calls his ‘ vestal virgins ’ , growth stocks selling at or near their all-time highs . |
| 29 | Neil Turok , of Princeton University , favours a more complex , multi-dimensional type of flaw he calls a texture . |
| 30 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |