Example sentences of "[noun] call it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephens called it the curve of least exertion , a design that was mathematically perfect for the use to which it was put . |
| 2 | Early writers called it the battle of Branxton , but Flodden came to be preferred , probably because of balladeers like Sir Walter Scott and Jane Elliott ( The Flowers of the Forest ) . |
| 3 | The huntsmen call it the Autumn Hunt . |
| 4 | Winston calls it the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , you know — although we have no riffraff , naturally . |
| 5 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 6 | Tusser called it the goef , and we can be sure that , like the word , the design of the barn itself and the work that went on in it had hardly changed from the sixteenth century to within living memory . |
| 7 | Campaigners against the bridge call it the Yuppie Tennis Racket from Hell . |
| 8 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 9 | Some people call it the nook but you just sat on the jam stones . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Jonas called it the family-room , where there were plenty of comfortable chairs and couches and it did n't matter if you put your feet up . |
| 12 | Ryan called it the Iron Maiden . |
| 13 | Locals call it the yuppie tennis racket from hell . |
| 14 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |
| 15 | Iain called it The Prison , and he began breaking out at weekends , finding his way back to Pinner , and Jacqueline 's flat . |
| 16 | Cawthorne calls it the Exhilarator . |
| 17 | James Joyce called it The Wine of the Country . |
| 18 | IF EVEREST were a person — and Tibetans call it the Goddess Mother of the World — it might feel a bit put upon . |