Example sentences of "[noun] call [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , so are the kind of reasons why Moscavisi calls them the black books . |
| 2 | Miss Eames calls me an old-fashioned word : Dunce . |
| 3 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 4 | More widely , engineers call it the concrete cancer . |
| 5 | Sometimes women at work call her a fat Irish pig . |
| 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 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 8 | ‘ Garang 's troops call it a tactical retreat , ’ said the political head of the breakaway SPLA faction , Dr Lam Akol . |
| 9 | Manager Brian Horton called it a criminal performance . |
| 10 | It is difficult to understand why Clemens Alexandrinus called him a Peripatetic ( Strom. 1.72.4 ) , but perhaps the important point is that he was assigned to a philosophic school at all , because this was quite unusual for a Jew of the second century B.C. Aristobulus quoted Greek writers — authentic or forged — to support the truth of the Bible and the dependence of the Greeks on Jewish wisdom . |
| 11 | Colquhoun tormented Barnsley with his pace and skill and last night admitted : ‘ It hurts when you hear people calling you a bad buy . |
| 12 | General manager called it an important milestone and said : ‘ I believe it is a clear demonstration of our commitment to providing customers with high quality products and support services . ’ |
| 13 | The group is strong because it has access to power through its institutional involvement with the state , which is why Becker calls it a corporate bourgeoisie . |
| 14 | MapInfo Inc , Troy , New York , is shipping its MapBasic Development Environment for Unix calling it the first programming language for GUI systems allowing corporate developers to customise desktop mapping applications for a given industry or department . |
| 15 | He flitted about on this machine ( which obsessed him ) wearing a helmet and goggles so that Gabriel called him The Invisible Man . |
| 16 | The last time he came , they had a row and the father called him a bloody upstart . |
| 17 | Most GPs call it a two-tier service . |
| 18 | Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers . |
| 19 | People call it a self-regulatory system , but it 's governed by statute , the Treasury presides over it all and the members of the SIB are not appointed by those whom they supervise . |
| 20 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 21 | The Local Government union NALGO calls it an infamous act of betrayal to Jamie Robertson , who helped bring in thousands of new jobs to the area following the closure of the railway works in the mid nineteen eightees . |
| 22 | His friends called him an easy-going chap ; his enemies called him weak . |
| 23 | First on the scene , a showy horse , a Palomino — the locals called it the cardboard horse . |
| 24 | He inspired spite : critics called him a male Farah Fawcett , said he was pretty enough to make a convincing transvestite . |
| 25 | Some critics called him the new Tennyson , and he had a collection of unpublished works with him on the plane which crashed into a mountain , just eight miles from Kathmandu . |
| 26 | Still , the two parties have moved towards the round-table talks that both want — although the government calls them a multi-party conference , whereas the ANC looks forward to an all-party congress , to be followed eventually by an elected constituent assembly . |
| 27 | But critics call it a faceless environment … a paradise for cars not people . |
| 28 | So we need four of those to make a whole pizza so we call that a fourth well the Americans call it a fourth |
| 29 | That mister at hospital calls you a little lady . |
| 30 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |