Example sentences of "we call [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the roads towards Tours spectators along the roadside , watching television or replaying the action on video , will have the vision of the escapes , the pure flights from the peloton we call breakaways . |
| 2 | Well , you could do , if , particularly if you had one of our meters , but what , what happens , as sound goes through the air it causes small pressure fluctuations , and our meter measures the size of these , and it gives a reading on a scale in units which we call decibels . |
| 3 | Our victims we call stiffs and slabs and sides — and fuck-ups , and organ-donors . |
| 4 | What can we learn from twenty prehistoric burial chambers , which we call cists , and which have been uncovered up to now ? |
| 5 | Similarly , a bat perceives the position of an insect using what we call echoes . |
| 6 | So is the innovation I mean there are other knitting needles but there is still this type of what we call burns needles being used today . |
| 7 | We have erm a special research unit , which we call Micro-processors , Instrumentation and Control . |
| 8 | These creatures may be just human beings , or just animals or a mixture of both , but which , in this instance , and ignoring for the purposes of this chapter those deviations which we call perversions , are not affected by any element of sexual attraction . |
| 9 | Ideas about what people should do , about what behaviour is ‘ proper ’ or ‘ fitting ’ , we call norms and values . |
| 10 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 11 | And the real test if you 're designing what we call formats in the United States — sometimes in Europe format means just shape and size — but the underlying design of a newspaper or magazine . |
| 12 | The argument from analogy with which we shall be concerned here admits that it is possible that the objects we call persons are , other than ourselves , mindless automata , but claims that we none the less have sufficient reason for supposing this not to be the case . |
| 13 | But they used to get the , the , the odd ones that used to come and gather s what we call hiplocks again that was the dirty wool off the sheath pin , sounds like that . |
| 14 | I think you will find that it owes it resiliency not to its form of organisation or administrative skills , but to the power of what we call beliefs and the appeal these beliefs have for its people . ’ |
| 15 | There are two factors , which we call genes . |
| 16 | One or two lived , even the top of on the other side of the road , houses are down now but , er , there was , there was three cot which we call cottages which er , much smaller than the others , but they were still very useful and nextdoor to there there used to be a , a chap named , oh nextdoor but two . |
| 17 | workshop and they would cover this board with woodcuttings like s what we call spills . |
| 18 | do n't actually make the sort of mess that , what we call gypsies , the tinkers , when they 're |
| 19 | But ice ages or no , millions of years of erosion will slowly flatten the planetary mineral heaps we call mountains . |
| 20 | Are the disordered visions we call hallucinations a result of blocking serotonin ? |
| 21 | There are several of those ancient fortified lake dwellings , which we call crannogs , most of them to be found in the northern half of the island , some of them in lochs well up into the hills . |
| 22 | Perhaps the most secure places were natural or man made islands in lochs , which we call crannogs . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most secure places were natural or man made islands in lochs , which we call crannogs . |
| 24 | what we call drivers |
| 25 | Hopkins advised against sending reclaimed prostitutes into domestic service because of the danger to middle-class sons : ‘ better a thousand times that this fearful social evil should be localized in certain spots , which we call dens , than by our hasty and injudicious benevolence it should be struck into the very bosom of our families . ’ |
| 26 | The wooden boxes we call trains speed by |
| 27 | ( Pollock , 1976 , p. 157 ) Also , at least some of what we call causes may seem to be ordinary things or indeed stuff , such as the snow . |
| 28 | The public , however , has yet to completely abandon its belief that farm animals are somehow different to those we call pets and regard as friends and family . |
| 29 | Those are what we call Tinkers and the Irish call the Diddicois and the wanderers |
| 30 | Oh yes any amount any amount of pots and pans and laces for your boots and , what we call pirins that was cotton reels . |