Example sentences of "[adv] call it a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have wrongly called it a microprocessor , when that really should be restricted to the processing unit itself rather than the complete microcomputer . |
| 2 | I will perhaps call it a constipation in glass , wrote Harsnet , not a delay in glass , but an advance , he wrote , on my last readymade , the hard stool , my present to Goldberg on the occasion of his third wedding . |
| 3 | ‘ But I still used to pose on the bike for publicity purposes , ’ she 'd say archly over her tea and Eccles cakes , ‘ until the varicose veins started to show through me silver tights and Flaherty said I 'd better call it a day and let them find themselves another pin-up girl . ’ |
| 4 | She comments , ‘ I doubt if my working life has been well organised enough to call it a career , but running various businesses has been very satisfying ’ . |
| 5 | The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ . |
| 6 | He excuses it by calling it ‘ a scherzo in minuet clothing ’ Why not call it a minuet in minuet clothing ? |
| 7 | ‘ Would n't exactly call it a band , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 8 | Where the lawn had been grew a large clump you could hardly call it a copse — of coconut palms . |
| 9 | Only Mercedes-Benz could charge £50,800 for a car that is comprehensively outperformed by a Vauxhall Calibra 2.0i 16v , costing £33,550 less , and still call it a sports car . |
| 10 | Well , now there is , as long as they 're allowed to go on calling it a Healey . |
| 11 | It was time she also called it a day ; she would continue with the work she was doing after she 'd eaten . |
| 12 | But what about when she does eventually call it a day . |
| 13 | The rules were based on the principle of substitution using a common ‘ radical ’ ( we would now call it a parent ) to denote members of the same family . |
| 14 | Well you could even call it a system . |
| 15 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , I would n't even call it a slap , because she does n't cry , she just looks at me and laughs . ’ |
| 17 | But it was true , what Jim said , in business you ca n't stand still , you go up or you go down , you ca n't just sit comfortably in your own 1972 executive four-bedroomed plate-glass-windowed centrally heated wall-to-wall-carpeted gadget-equipped house , with your Rover and your wife 's Mini in the two-car garage , and your pot plants in your loggia , and your electric lawn mower in the shed : you ca n't sit still and enjoy it , you ca n't call it a day and call a halt when you own it all and do n't owe anyone a penny , you have to go on and on , relentlessly onwards , juggling with larger and larger sums , owing more , paying out more , until finally perhaps the whole thing comes tumbling round your head like a pack of cards . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't call it a do , ’ Claire said . |
| 19 | Well , you ca n't call it a crime , can you , looking the other way in a cafe when somebody 's nicking your vehicle from a lay-by ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What about your lean old arse — I could n't call it a bum in all conscience — grinding away on the saddle of your bike ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We might as well call it a night , ’ said Pumfrey , weariness having settled over his thrusting manner . |
| 22 | ‘ We may as well call it a day now , though . |
| 23 | By five o'clock , just as Merrill was about to call it a day , she was offered the lease on a small flat in a pleasant , tree-lined avenue . |
| 24 | It would do this twice more and then call it a day . |
| 25 | ‘ I would like to play through to the Canada tournament then call it a day , hopefully going out in a blaze of glory . ’ |
| 26 | But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish . |
| 27 | We have n't actually called it a science park but it 's something on that line , yes . |