Example sentences of "[noun] call [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , so are the kind of reasons why Moscavisi calls them the black books . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | More widely , engineers call it the concrete cancer . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Kenny called me the other week to congratulate me the day after I broke Roger Hunt 's club scoring record at Manchester United . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He flitted about on this machine ( which obsessed him ) wearing a helmet and goggles so that Gabriel called him The Invisible Man . |
| 8 | Counting numbers those are the numbers you use for counting things with like three or six or most people call them the normal numbers . |
| 9 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 10 | First on the scene , a showy horse , a Palomino — the locals called it the cardboard horse . |
| 11 | Some critics called him the new Tennyson , and he had a collection of unpublished works with him on the plane which crashed into a mountain , just eight miles from Kathmandu . |
| 12 | Those who liked the Prince called him Slender Billy , while his detractors called him the Young Frog . |
| 13 | Said treasurer called her the SILLIEST woman he knew … |
| 14 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 15 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 16 | Television commentators call it the biggest meeting outside the Olympics , and while that is an exaggerated accolade the standard of competition is amazingly high . |
| 17 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 18 | Erm , my mother calls me the eternal student because I tell her that there 's absolutely no way I 'm gon na look for full time employment ! |
| 19 | The blame for syphilis was invariably ascribed to foreigners , with the result that the English called it the French disease , the French called it the Italian disease , the Italians , unable to make up their minds , called it both the French disease and the Spanish disease , while the Spanish called it the disease of Hispaniola ( Haiti ) . |
| 20 | But Michael called me the other day to say : ‘ I was n't getting anywhere until you contacted the insurance company and my agents . |