Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] i call the " in BNC.

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1 However , there is a danger here of what I call the definitional fallacy , that is a tendency to seek to present the law as if everything was completely cut and dried , whereas such ‘ defences ’ may be better understood as ‘ excuses ’ the primary function of which , from a ( negative ) utilitarian point of view , is simply to minimize the amount of punishment actually imposed without jeopardizing the credibility of the general system of threat through which , arguably , criminal law realizes its prescriptive function .
2 I must admit , some of you probably were brought up on Meccano , and certainly not in the mo mo more sophisticated technology we 've got at the moment , but the point is , a lot of these have n't really seen this part of what I call the basic technology itself and er , it was interesting because we were trying to build up some kind of game for their summer fair and the game was quite obviously er , you know er propel a ping-pong into a er series of slots with er , bit like bingo to a certain extent , where you can actually er give prizes for the various holes you could actually penetrate and things like that .
3 As a tutor I teach my students to steer well clear of what I call the 4 oz syndrome , i.e. the system we were all taught years ago .
4 My next film deals with what I call the private war between Africa-American males and females and it 's a romance .
5 Oh yes and er the I pass all the correspondence I have to the County Planning Officer who deals with it with the most enormous efficiency and I hope that he is maintaining liaison with what I call the Rucatse Group which consists of , Neil and Tony and somebody from Crawley who is I think it 's
6 Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat .
7 The best time for this ‘ homework ’ to be done is in what I call the twilight time at night — that period when he is in bed and drowsy but not yet asleep .
8 This result in what I call the Ami Prosyndrome .
9 What did Freud think anxiety was in , in what I call the first psychoanalytic revolution , the first period , the eighteen nineties ?
10 You can instead tell your tale from what I call the " angel over the shoulder " point of view .
11 This argument appealed to what I called the ideal of protected expectation , that collective force should be used only in accordance with standards chosen and read through procedures the community as a whole knows will be used for that purpose , procedures so widely acknowledged that they are matters of general social or professional convention .
12 The issues we are facing in the present crisis of faith touch on what I call the Square One Principle .
13 And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law .
14 During what I call the period of uneasy peace , 1983–84 , Mr Heinz expected all options to be examined and costed in detail .
15 So it 's admirable evidence for what I call the minor claim of the punctuationalist school , of the empirical claim .
16 In this area there is an important connection , which I mentioned before , between what I called the normative and the explanatory interest .
17 At what I called the Winter Marsh inlet , though it was not called anything on the map , there was a wooden quay in what struck me as remarkably good condition for a structure that presumably had not been used for several years .
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