Example sentences of "call [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next four years , it was the suburban conquerors of southern Britain , not the decaying and dispirited north and west , who would pay the piper and call the tune . |
| 2 | First is the manufacturers ' close dependence both on their upstream suppliers ( being part of a vertically integrated chemical group is a competitive advantage ) and on their downstream customers who call the tune . |
| 3 | Foundations call the tune |
| 4 | Paying the piper as we call the tune is the idea behind metering , which is already in use all over the world . |
| 5 | How far should he who pays the piper call the tune ? |
| 6 | The Harare Statement on Communication in Theological Education ( 1989 ) spoke of ‘ frustrations about communication in a hierarchical , authoritative and class-conscious Church , where its male clergy pay the piper and call the tune ’ . |
| 7 | " I 'm saying this , Chuck , to remind you that it 's the rich and powerful nations that call the tune around the world , " continued the senator through a burgeoning cloud of pale blue cigar smoke . |
| 8 | Do n't do it too often just call the tune without justifying it . |
| 9 | ‘ A woman decides whether she really likes her lipstick in the moment after application , what we call the pressement , ’ says Edith Klar , head of scientific communication at Lancôme , Paris , pressing her lips together with a Gallic flourish . |
| 10 | But his daughters , on whom he is as dependent as a baby , refuse to get up in what they call the middle of the night to enable him to pursue his observations . |
| 11 | ‘ We call the bird ‘ Joey ’ , ’ said Finn . |
| 12 | No one brought up in the Jewish faith with his sort of European connections could fail to be unaware , or convulsed , by the nightmare we call the Holocaust . |
| 13 | They have a department on the first floor ( best reached by door ten ) housing what they call the Plus Collection . |
| 14 | To book your place call the Moors Centre on between 10am and 5pm . |
| 15 | I call the subject ‘ Jesus — our pioneer ’ because that seems to sum up the thrust of the idea . |
| 16 | To send a message to a Wordcall pager , simply call the Vodapage 24-hour Bureau Service , quote the pager number you wish to call and state your message — up to 80 characters . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , there is a price to pay for everything and , under this Government , that price is measured by what we call the poll tax and will soon no doubt be measured by the council tax . |
| 18 | If one looks at the continuing difficulties in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire , which some now call the UFFR — the union of fewer and fewer republics — one sees that those troubles could trigger off large movements of displaced persons across national frontiers . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I loathe the plots hatched by the Spanish government to slip ‘ Guernica ’ surreptitiously into Spain with the promise that it would be put on show at the whorehouse they call the Prado and then moved it to that pigsty , the Reina Sofia . |
| 21 | This must be what they call the fog of war . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose this is what they call the fog of war , ’ she yelled . |
| 23 | Later on you got what we call the fog cheese , from the second crop of grass in the autumn after haymaking , which was very rich but did not rise quite as well . |
| 24 | Or , in other words , why should the universe be in a state of high order at one end of time , the end that we call the past ? |
| 25 | ‘ It 's what I call the devil now , ’ explained Lydia recalling herself to the conversation . |
| 26 | ( 1960 ) formalise it into what they call the TOTE principle ( Test Operate — Test — Exit ) . |
| 27 | ‘ In the towns now they are so busy or so tired , poor souls , or so wretched and idle that there is no time for that calm contemplation of one 's existence which is the best part of our lives and which continues at all levels in a place such as this , among the peasantry as much as among those they call the Statesmen . |
| 28 | ‘ In the course of this process we have talked to Miss Morgan 's solicitor , who told us that she was the life tenant of a substantial estate , and that you are what they call the remainder-man . ’ |
| 29 | The Russians call the pipeline , which has a diameter of 1420 mm ( big enough to walk through , stooping ) , the ‘ project of the century ’ . |
| 30 | Trouble yeah , trouble I got put off for a fortnight , on the dole , then he , I was on the dole for a week and er he cos at that time you had to appear in front of the erm , what they call the Court of Referees at the Labour Exchange , that was their Committee . |