Example sentences of "[adv] call a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes wrongly called a second-order transition but we shall show below that this is an incorrect use of language . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 3 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 4 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 5 | The spiteful Head Girl had deliberately called a sudden rehearsal . |
| 6 | The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court , formerly called a juvenile court . |
| 7 | Compaoré had also called a round table meeting of 24 political parties on June 11 , but representatives of 13 of them walked out , protesting that Compaoré viewed the meeting as consultative rather than as a sovereign decision-making body . |
| 8 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 9 | In spite of this , the words ‘ buyer beware ’ still carry a very real warning in one type of purchase and that is what is colloquially called a private sale . |
| 10 | It is emphasising these offerings rather than the connectivity software products for which it is traditionally known — what it now calls a secondary stream . |
| 11 | The magistrates have now called a pre-sentence report -- and he 'll be summoned back to court for sentencing on November the Ninth . |
| 12 | The next morning a telephone call came through from Number 10 just before 8.30 a.m. calling a special Cabinet meeting at 9.45 to discuss the Falklands . |
| 13 | D. Many merchants have seen the advantages of using the raw materials which are unloaded at a port — often called a trans-shipment point . |
| 14 | A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is often called a stoichiometric process Many ionic reactions produce quantitative yields . |
| 15 | When you are interviewed for a job which may involve press relations ( and most do ) your potential employer will often call a few journalists on major publications to see what reaction they have to your name . |
| 16 | The government had let it be known on Sept. 30 that it would not now call a general election in 1991 . |
| 17 | Ian Philpot , whose girlfriend was one of the 51 people who died , says Transport Secretary Cecil Parkinson must now call a public enquiry . |
| 18 | Although the concept of what we now call a black hole goes back more than two hundred years , the name black hole was introduced only in 1967 by the American physicist John Wheeler . |
| 19 | This region is what we now call a black hole . |
| 20 | As long ago as 1750 , some astronomers were suggesting that the appearance of the Milky Way could be explained if most of the visible stars lie in a single dislike configuration , one example of what we now call a spiral galaxy . |
| 21 | The ability of a prime minister effectively to call a general election has been regarded by some writers as the most important weapon in ensuring parliamentary support . |
| 22 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 23 | They say officers did n't call a vital witness who was in the room where Wiltshire was stabbed . |
| 24 | A is then called a proper subset of B. Thus we write unc according to the emphasis required . |
| 25 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 26 | If f : unc is 1-1 and onto B , f is sometimes called a 1-1 correspondence . |
| 27 | In the first , sometimes called a correlative approach , one can inject a radioactive precursor of protein or RNA synthesis into an animal , train it on a task , and ask if the amount of radioactivity in the protein or RNA has increased by comparison with that in appropriate control , ‘ non-learning ’ animals . |
| 28 | If the first derivative of the property-temperature curve is measured , a change in the vicinity of T g is found ; for this reason it is sometimes called a second-order transition . |
| 29 | I regard the father 's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract , a promise in return for an act , a promise by the father to pay £1 per week in return for the mother 's looking after the child . |
| 30 | While she was in Scotland she went on Late Call a good number of times , and took part in a series entitled " Come wind , come weather , " in which various people were interviewed about crises in their life . |