Example sentences of "[pron] we call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So , so that 's been a great improvement I think , erm in recent years and , and in the erm early seventies we , we also went into the business of providing equipment that could be left at rescues , on site , you know it was always tying up a fire engine by taking it there and , and being tied up so we provided these things which we call demountable equipment , which we commonly call the pods and erm |
2 | It 's this marvellous giving and taking and sharing which provides these marvellous explosions which we call inspired moments which sometimes result in a work of art . |
3 | Charles J. Lumsden and I have recently studied this dual evolutionary process , which we call gene-culture coevolution ( Lumsden & Wilson , 1981 ) . |
4 | He also thinks beauty is that in virtue of which we call beautiful things beautiful . |
5 | He also thinks beauty is that in virtue of which we call beautiful things beautiful . |
6 | Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock . |
7 | These set the sights of ambition , often embodied in a series of national plans , what we called national intent in chapter 1 . |
8 | with what we called unmarried mothers in |
9 | According to pragmatism what we call legal rights are only the servants of the best future : they are instruments we construct for that purpose and have no independent force or ground . |
10 | Right so there 's so something waiting for you , what we call preserved benefits sitting here er that 's , that 's good to know . |
11 | That 's what we call Total Service ! |
12 | Does n't matter whether it 's a solid fuel fire , gas fire or electric and this is what we call radiated heat . |
13 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
14 | Erm , then the erm , the insistence of the driver 's conductors was they did n't like the long periods of duty they erm , they wanted the new set up so I introduced what we call straight duties , narrowed the relief portion , so they did n't go home for a meal , they had about a half an hour off , so they were able to get their eight hour duty done in a shorter period and they 'd probably finish about two instead of half past three , four o'clock . |
15 | But , so those are what we call environmental stresses . |
16 | I preferred doing what we call off-diary stories , not the councils and the jobs that came up as a matter of routine . |
17 | However , it is not really necessary to understand exactly what imaginary time is — just that it is different from what we call real time . |
18 | This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time , and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations . |
19 | Well sometimes they did n't do that f for reason , perhaps a driver missed his duty or there was a defect on the bus and you used to get a record each day of what we call lost mileage or an extra mileage perhaps on the odd occasion when an extra journey was run but erm the lost mileage was recorded and say you had this bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles , it did n't for some reason complete its erm hundred percent journey , you 'd take that off and then record against that bus that , that run say hundred and twenty miles . |
20 | This would be one example of what we call teleological explanation . |
21 | that 's good , there is what we call compressed funding . |
22 | But in due course er when I was still off with flu , erm back to the specialist another test , you know , and that was er March , April of last year and the result of it was that there is something in there which is characteristic of what 's , what we call multiple sclerosis which seems to me is about as broad as it 's long , you know , it 's , it 's a very large |
23 | The first one is what we call unconscious incompetence . |
24 | Lastly , which is something we all reach eventually , hopefully , is what we call unconscious competence , when you know how to do something so well that you do it un without thinking , it 's like driving . |
25 | That 's an interesting point that , any square root , any square root you always get two answers for square roots yeah , it 's always plus thing and minus thing , in complex numbers , when you get complex numbers there are always what we call complex conjugators , if you drew them on them , on them diagram , right , if you drew them on the diagram , what 'll you get , plus five minus three I , plus five , minus three I , and then and then we get minus five , plus three I , You get plus and minus there . |
26 | Cos they 're what we call complex conjugals . |
27 | We use MRPII as a fundmental mechanistic approach plus what we call continuous improvement , which is how we do what we currently do in a much better way . ’ |
28 | Simple supply and demand right now but this is the demand who say European Community as is the supply term erm what we call excess demand occurred rest of the world . |
29 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
30 | An alternative notion of incidence to use in this context is therefore what we call balanced growth path incidence , where the rate of interest is kept constant by debt policy . |