Example sentences of "calling [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More details are available by calling 0922 20569 . |
| 2 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 3 | Soon the fine weather would come , she would be able to take rides along the coast road , get away for a while from the interminable drawing-room meetings and card calling that wearied and bored her . |
| 4 | As she came through the side roads to her house she heard a few trial notes on a wind instrument of some sort — a clarinet , was it ? a run of notes that seemed to carry on where the last solitary trill of the bird had stopped , and then a beat , beat , beat of a bass and a drum slowly swinging in , and the band , trying out their numbers high up in a house , lilted together into a piece , melancholy at base with gay little twiddles from the clarinet bravely calling that nightfall was not the end of hope , not a closure — a little bit of swing filtering over back gardens to draw people out , out into the spring night , a beat along the channels of their blood suggesting that this hour , as the light dies , as the dusk creeps along the ground , is not an ending but a beginning . |
| 5 | Perhaps they are right , though the SNP has now taken to calling Labour ‘ Tartan Tories ’ , a jibe once more fairly directed at them . |
| 6 | The circumstances in England as to housing and education can be made known to the Australian court as can those circumstances in Australia be made known to the English court without the necessity in either case of calling oral evidence . |
| 7 | Their well-equipped offices in Los Angeles came complete with a fifty-seat private theatre , and producers , writers , editors and directors walked determinedly around the corridors , calling each other ‘ babe ’ and ‘ doll ’ . |
| 8 | If there was one thing Robin could not stand , it was people calling each other ‘ old boy ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ If you hang around with us all day you 'll hear us calling women bitches and calling each other motherf— . ’ |
| 10 | As late as the end of Anne 's reign we still find Whigs and Tories calling each other Cavaliers and Roundheads . |
| 11 | It was at the end of the Fifties that the joke became popular about one high-powered executive calling another on his car telephone only to be told : ‘ He 's on the other line ’ . |
| 12 | The thought of Angel calling another woman mother made her heart ache anew . |
| 13 | Er if we find that we get a , a , a no answer from the employer in terms of paid release , er the first reserve date will be Saturday the tenth and we 'll switch it to Saturday if we if we can leave it in the hands of the three officers to get together on that without calling another meeting of the group , I think might be better . |
| 14 | It was our guess that in the face of this assertion , and while he could still call George Brown , Radcliffe would not want to discount Gardiner 's evidence by calling another Labour witness . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : Why , is that not one chimney-sweeper calling another a sooty rascal ? |
| 16 | There the children never failed to stalk her , calling different messages , some days more friendly , some days less . |
| 17 | Calling Old Colleagues , Reunions , Help ! |
| 18 | If you 're interested in the new Freemans spring/summer 1991 catalogue , order by calling free on 0800 900 200 quoting X09 . |
| 19 | The greatest fear of the opposition groups now is that the ruling parties will try to appease them and rush ahead with calling free elections before the opposition groups are properly organised . |
| 20 | Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket . |
| 21 | Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket . |
| 22 | Many are calling this the worst humanitarian disaster in the world today . |
| 23 | They differ from connotative terms like ‘ metal ’ — and to this extent ‘ are in the same condition as proper names ’ — in that whereas to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this thing a ‘ metal ’ ? ’ the answer , ‘ Things of which it is true that their oxide dissolved in water yields an alkaline solution ’ can be given ; to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ ? ’ the only answer that can be given is , ‘ Sensations to which I have given the name ‘ a sensation of white ’ ’ , an answer that does not ‘ unfold the signification of this class of names ’ . |
| 24 | They differ from connotative terms like ‘ metal ’ — and to this extent ‘ are in the same condition as proper names ’ — in that whereas to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this thing a ‘ metal ’ ? ’ the answer , ‘ Things of which it is true that their oxide dissolved in water yields an alkaline solution ’ can be given ; to the question , ‘ What are the things the resemblance to which you mark by calling this sensation ‘ a sensation of white ’ ? ’ the only answer that can be given is , ‘ Sensations to which I have given the name ‘ a sensation of white ’ ’ , an answer that does not ‘ unfold the signification of this class of names ’ . |
| 25 | San Francisco dealer John Berggruen sold twelve works in this category , all by younger artists , and New York dealer Nancy Hoffman , calling this year 's fair ‘ the best yet ’ , sold ten works by contemporary artists , including three to people she 'd never seen before . |
| 26 | What is at issue in calling this use of the sceptical argument ‘ scientific ’ ? |
| 27 | Calling this effort a ‘ challenge ’ , Sunsoft claims the trouble it ran into was deciding which device drivers and peripherals to support , ‘ Intel has done its best to standardise on device drivers and peripherals , but the dilemma lies in which ones to choose . ’ |
| 28 | With Euro Disney set to open on its 5000- acre site outside Paris on 12 April ( at 9.01am precisely ) and with plans to nearly double the number of Disney attractions and hotels in the USA and Japan , the Disney big cheeses are calling this the ‘ Disney Decade ’ . |
| 29 | Rather than calling this a paradox ( as others did ) the authors preferred to think of it as an indication of the incompleteness of quantum theory . |
| 30 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |