Example sentences of "[art] [noun] call [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 2 | The figure called himself the devil and declared that he had come for Gary 's life . |
| 3 | The islanders call it the Johnny rook . |
| 4 | The members of the committee call it the knobs and knockers committee . |
| 5 | Dunwoody was surprised when the judge called him the winner on Remittance Man in the opening Bristol Novice Hurdle , believing Peter Scudamore had got back in the final strides on the favourite Regal Ambition after being headed halfway up the run-in . |
| 6 | ‘ I used to love listening to Elvis records , which helped me pick up the lingo , and now everyone in the business calls me the Rocking Singh . |
| 7 | The Labour Party says the Tories have lost the right to call themselves the party of law and order . |
| 8 | She says : ‘ It was the only personal appearance I did , but now some of the crew call me The Opener . |
| 9 | The huntsmen call it the Autumn Hunt . |
| 10 | The Greeks call them the Furies . |
| 11 | Campaigners against the bridge call it the Yuppie Tennis Racket from Hell . |
| 12 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 13 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 14 | First on the scene , a showy horse , a Palomino — the locals called it the cardboard horse . |
| 15 | The driving force behind the Plazas was undoubtedly Ethel ; to some extent she relished knowing that the Girls called her the slave driver behind her back : |
| 16 | When an anti-tubercular campaign was initiated by the cell , the peasants called it the ‘ tubercular tax ’ , because money gathering methods were applied . |
| 17 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |
| 18 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 19 | The company called it the most significant announcement in its personal computer history , adding that it had two aims : firstly , to become the number one in personal systems in Europe ; second , to be the number one supplier and implementor of choice for client-server technology . |
| 20 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 21 | The Romans called them the ‘ Picti ’ or Picts , the ‘ Painted People ’ . ' |
| 22 | ‘ … the guy called me the minute he got back to his office and he said : ‘ Mo do you agree with me that judge was as wet as hell ? ’ and I said : ‘ If you so say but he was sure swimming in the right pool . ’ |
| 23 | Czechoslovakia 's opposition acquired a colourful new facet yesterday , when a group calling itself The Ladybirds launched its manifesto . |
| 24 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |
| 25 | Within a few weeks of Glass 's abduction , a group calling itself the Organization of Good against Evil released video pictures of him allegedly confessing to being a spy . |
| 26 | The situation was complicated by the actions of other armed groups , possibly dissident units of the Jungle Commando , including the seizure on Oct. 13 of the bauxite mining town of Moengo , 100 km east of Paramaribo , by a group calling itself the Union for Liberation and Democracy , and by the growing involvement of both rebel and Army-backed groups in the production and trafficking of illegal drugs , particularly cocaine . |
| 27 | The security services on June 10 managed to prevent the holding of a nationalist rally in Frunze called by a group calling itself the Kirghiz Democratic Movement . |
| 28 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |
| 29 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 30 | On June 23 a group calling itself the Islamic Liberation Front threatened to carry out terrorist attacks against the Kuwaiti government unless it cancelled the death sentences . |