Example sentences of "have called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No less a person that the Director of the US Civil Rights Commission has called equal pay for work of equal value ‘ the looniest idea since Looney Tunes ’ . |
| 2 | As it stands , it obliges the government to fulfil parliament 's resolution on Saturday , the one that caused the crisis , granting subsidies to many areas of the economy , something Mr Gaidar has called ruinous . |
| 3 | Ariane Mnouchkine , a leading writer and theatre director , has called Euro Disney a ‘ cultural Chernobyl ’ , while in Le Figaro this week her colleague Jean Cau of the French Academy wrote of ‘ this horror of cardboard , plastic , atrocious colours , solidified chewing gum constructions and idiotic folk stories that come straight out of cartoon books for fat Americans . |
| 4 | This aspect has a bearing on two further components , social cohesion , which has to do with the sense of community and national identity , and what Heater has called civic virtue . |
| 5 | Nevertheless it had , from the first glass of sherry to the momentary blue veil of flame on the pudding , been what she would have called civilised . |
| 6 | He had respected her lack of interest in what others might have called sexual morality , had respected the fact that she had slept with him and neither offered nor expected anything in return . |
| 7 | He was caught in the dark street by left-wing ruffians — those whom he would have called Jewish Communists . |
| 8 | I 've called British Telecom every day for five months and what have I got ? |
| 9 | So , on the previous day , before coming to Victoria , he had called unannounced at the house in Chelsea , hoping to find Franca breakfasting alone . |
| 10 | On 21 March , he wrote that he had ‘ thought a good deal ’ about the book — which , bearing in mind the Spanish use the word ‘ servile ’ in contrast to ‘ liberal ’ , I had called Liberal and Servile Society — but that his Board had agreed that in its present form , which was in any case fragmentary , it was insufficiently co-ordinated . |
| 11 | It was only in the last six or seven years of his life that he discovered that his talents lay elsewhere : in polemics , above all , and in what Waugh in his letter of thanks for Animal Farm had called ingenious and delightful allegory . |
| 12 | Doctor Braby , hard-worked GP and police surgeon to the district , had done more than confirm the fact of death on this occasion , he had called immediate attention to certain peculiarities about the body , and boldly essayed a guess at the length of time it had actually been in the water . |
| 13 | Sir Reginald also told me that on one occasion when there was suspicion of corruption about a certain appointment , he had called U Saw to him and said , ‘ I hear that you have accepted Rs5,000 for this appointment . |
| 14 | I have called RNA-replicase and RNA respectively a machine and a blueprint . |
| 15 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 16 | For our present purposes , there are two main senses in which the inner-city phonology can be said to be complicated : first , there is a much higher degree of ‘ low-level ’ allophonic variation in the inner-city than in outer areas , resulting in a wide range of variation and frequent overlap between phonemes ; yet , this variation can be shown to be rule-governed ; second , there is a high incidence of what I have called phono-lexical alternation ( as measured in variables of type 2b ) in the inner-city , which is much reduced in outer-city communities . |
| 17 | Spurs have called reserve team striker John Hendry into the squad , plus Nicky Barmby , who was called up to the England Under-21 squad this week . |
| 18 | Here , this suggestion is extended to cover what I have called invisible metaphors : that is , those metaphoric forms in which one domain is not linguistically realised on the surface of the text , and therefore has to be inferred . |
| 19 | As stated earlier , the purpose of this book is to examine certain aspects of company law from a particular point of view : one which takes the relevant rules to be part of the machinery by which power , and particularly what we have called social decision-making power , is sustained and regulated . |
| 20 | We need a coherent guideline for the relationship between Congress , sectional national conferences and what up until now we have called national and regional conferences . |
| 21 | Some dreams apparently offer a comment on life , and these I have called reflective dreams . |
| 22 | Pattern drill , dialogue memorisation , directed or controlled dialogue , recombination practice , narrative : these procedures approximate to what Miller & Dollard ( 1941 ) have called matched-dependent behaviour , where the student carefully copies the actions of the teacher in every way . |
| 23 | This is one reason why we do not restrict the use of " style " to what we have called stylistic variation , ie " styled " . |
| 24 | But the exclusivity principle does not apply to all such applications : some are what I have called hybrid judicial review actions and such actions need not , but may , be brought under Ord. 53 . |
| 25 | He lets out a piercing giggle that many have called infectious , but honestly , I would n't want to catch it . |
| 26 | She hurried on into the high woods to see Kitty , her basket Wed with even more goodies than usual , a stock , indeed , which her father would ( rightly ) have called wasteful , far beyond alms . |
| 27 | The approach that I have called theoretical as opposed to practical must have as a major part of its aim not merely the passing on of facts and formulae but the inculcation of critical and speculative habit . |
| 28 | Of course , it could be argued that what I have called secondary danger clues correspond to the facts about child abuse discovered by a number of studies within the disease model . |
| 29 | Sinclair , for example , is in no doubt that recent developments in what I have called token description require a radical revision of principles of descriptive procedure in general , and have profound implications for language pedagogy in particular : |
| 30 | This we have called antecedent , a way of seeing causation which calls for the use of the to infinitive to signify the before/after relation between the cause and the effect . |