Example sentences of "[pron] he called [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emperor Constantine , impressed by the city 's possibilities , transferred the Imperial seat of government there in A.D. 330 and began to build a great new city which he called New Rome . |
| 2 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
| 3 | He saw that there was a sentiment which he called colonial nationalism , which was not merely separation , but a complex of local feeling and attachment to Britain . |
| 4 | Henry Talbot , the British inventor of the positive/negative process of photography , first publicly showed examples of an earlier phase of his invention — which he called Photogenic Drawing — at the Royal Institution in London on 25 January 1839 . |
| 5 | Chomsky [ 1965 ] argued that word meanings can be accurately described by sets of bivalent features , which he called semantic markers , e.g. male , animate , human , etc . |
| 6 | He used it in his study of primitive religion , and in his study of the change from what he called mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity . |
| 7 | Heinsch saw sacred geometry and what he called sacred geography as being part of a continuum stretching out from the structure and form of the building into the surrounding countryside . |
| 8 | Mr Lewis warned judges and magistrates who have been jailing offenders at an unprecedented rate , that pushing the service too far and too fast would create what he called unacceptable risks . |
| 9 | Rees , a key figure in Rugby 's rise from area league status to the top division over the past six years , made his decision for what he called personal reasons , though his increasingly sharp disagreements with Brain became a talking point . |
| 10 | Instead , he used what he called mimed dance or danced mime , insisting , when asked fur an explanation , that there was a subtle difference between them , ‘ only one of degree ’ . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , Thompson relates Marxist thinking to what he called industrial syndicalism and describes as one of the great themes of Owenism . |
| 12 | Joanna said , ‘ I had an uncle — he 's dead now , but I used to spend a lot of time in his surgery — and , apart from the essentials , he never went in for what he called expensive gimmicks . |
| 13 | SAID AOUITA , the 1500 metres , 3,000m and 5,000m world record holder , has criticised what he called lenient treatment of the disgraced Canadian sprinter , Ben Johnson , saying that athletes who take drugs should be banned from competition for life . |
| 14 | An author named Henri Martin , who wrote under the name of Barzun , published a ‘ Manifeste sur le simultanisme poétique ’ , and disputed with Apollinaire the invention of what he called literary Simultaneism . |
| 15 | In his preamble to the report Lord Hunter quoted Lord Denning 's preamble to the Profumo affair report about the importance of justice to the individual and not condemning on suspicion , and he also promised to avoid what he called wild speculation . |
| 16 | Grice himself might assimilate apine dance to the category of phenomena that have what he called natural meaning as opposed to the non-natural meaning of expressions of natural language . |