Example sentences of "[noun sg] call it the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One critic called it the Tate Gallery of the south west with works by Lowry , Henry Moore and Graham Sutherland displayed alongside local art . |
| 2 | The members of the committee call it the knobs and knockers committee . |
| 3 | The Economist called it the Consumer-Credit Snowball and pronounced it well and truly rolling . |
| 4 | Campaigners against the bridge call it the Yuppie Tennis Racket from Hell . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Roddick calls it the Marcel Proust questionnaire and it asks such unlikely questions as : How would you like to die ? |
| 7 | Cawthorne calls it the Exhilarator . |