Example sentences of "[pron] have call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've called British Telecom every day for five months and what have I got ? |
| 2 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |
| 3 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 4 | Here , this suggestion is extended to cover what I have called invisible metaphors : that is , those metaphoric forms in which one domain is not linguistically realised on the surface of the text , and therefore has to be inferred . |
| 5 | Sinclair , for example , is in no doubt that recent developments in what I have called token description require a radical revision of principles of descriptive procedure in general , and have profound implications for language pedagogy in particular : |
| 6 | Some dreams apparently offer a comment on life , and these I have called reflective dreams . |
| 7 | Of course , it could be argued that what I have called secondary danger clues correspond to the facts about child abuse discovered by a number of studies within the disease model . |
| 8 | As stated earlier , the purpose of this book is to examine certain aspects of company law from a particular point of view : one which takes the relevant rules to be part of the machinery by which power , and particularly what we have called social decision-making power , is sustained and regulated . |
| 9 | This is one reason why we do not restrict the use of " style " to what we have called stylistic variation , ie " styled " . |
| 10 | Doctor Braby , hard-worked GP and police surgeon to the district , had done more than confirm the fact of death on this occasion , he had called immediate attention to certain peculiarities about the body , and boldly essayed a guess at the length of time it had actually been in the water . |
| 11 | Sir Reginald also told me that on one occasion when there was suspicion of corruption about a certain appointment , he had called U Saw to him and said , ‘ I hear that you have accepted Rs5,000 for this appointment . |
| 12 | You have what 's called parental responsibility . |
| 13 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 14 | We 're very much involved in what 's called in-service training , in the retraining and helping of teachers who 've been in the profession for some years , and who need to get new qualifications or refreshment in their professional work . |
| 15 | then you can argue what 's called special hardship . |
| 16 | Now you could do it in the nineteen seventies and er well yes I would say from nineteen sixty eight onwards with plastic card and revolv , what 's called revolving credit . |