Example sentences of "call [pn reflx] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robin Reid , a betting shop manager from Runcorn who calls himself the Grim Reaper , guaranteed his country 's first boxing medal . |
| 2 | The troubles in Kent dragged on sporadically for some two years ; in August 1450 a certain William Parmenter virtually proclaimed himself Cade 's successor by calling himself the second captain of Kent , in April 1451 there were troubles fomented by Henry Hasilden , and in May 1452 there was yet further disorder ( 42 ) . |
| 3 | SERVANT : My lady , a gentleman calling himself the noble Spaniard waits to see you . |
| 4 | The anti-democratic movement , which calls itself the anti-tribal movement , is considering widening the net in its search for suitable replacement students . |
| 5 | A pressure group , which calls itself the Coordinating Committee on Depo-Provera , has submitted 400 pages of evidence to the appeal panel , which began hearings this week . |
| 6 | The AFO now called itself the Anti-Fascist People 's Freedom League ( AFPFL ) and its general secretary and political spokesman was Thakin Than Tun . |
| 7 | His own group called itself the Free Conservatives , set up an office to rival that of the official party , and supplied money and professional assistance to rebels at by-elections . |
| 8 | An anonymous caller to a newspaper claimed that a ( previously unknown ) Islamic fundamentalist group calling itself the Islamic Movement had killed Ucok because of her secularist and feminist stand against the current fundamentalist campaign for the veiling of women . |
| 9 | On June 23 a group calling itself the Islamic Liberation Front threatened to carry out terrorist attacks against the Kuwaiti government unless it cancelled the death sentences . |
| 10 | They had been arrested on Dec. 17 and held at the premises of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance in Abidjan accused of the possession of documents supporting a group calling itself the Democratic Convention of African People , material considered hostile to the Eyadema regime . |
| 11 | There was brawling at the Republicans ' conference in West Berlin in July 1989 and in mid-October a splinter group calling itself the Democratic Republicans of Germany ( Demokratische Republikaner Deutschlands ) was formed in Hannover . |
| 12 | Other incidents included explosions on April 2 and 3 , 1989 , which caused damage at the British Cultural Centre in Kizilay ; a group calling itself the Revolutionary Left claimed responsibility . |
| 13 | On May 7th farmers , politicians and ex-generals who oppose majority rule met in Pretoria to launch a new alliance calling itself the Afrikaner Volksfront , or Afrikaner People 's Front . |
| 14 | The group , calling itself the United Liberation Movement of Liberia for Democracy ( ULIMO ) , was also reportedly supported by members of the Libyan-trained Movement for Justice in Africa ( MOJA ) , led by Boima Fahnbulleh . |
| 15 | Only then did the navy begin calling itself the Senior Service — reference to the fact that it was around long before the East India Trading Company . |
| 16 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front , which established itself as Burkina 's source of legislative and executive power . |
| 17 | He himself was overthrown and killed in October 1987 by a faction of the armed forces calling itself the Popular Front . |
| 18 | One of the most amusing was when a group calling itself the Renewable Energy Generating Board drove on to the proposed reactor site and installed a miniature array of ten-foot-high wind turbines . |
| 19 | From this disaster a coalition of community groups throughout the region was formed , calling itself the Appalachian Alliance , and with these groups placing questions of land ownership high on their agenda for discussion , the issues were raised to a new sense of awareness . |
| 20 | The move followed a series of attacks on white teachers by a group of pro-PAC black youths calling themselves the Revolutionary Watchdogs . |
| 21 | In London , a small group of clinical research nurses based in the St Peter 's group of hospitals and the Royal College of Surgeons has been meeting every two months for over a year , calling themselves the Clinical Research Nurses Association . |
| 22 | Our idea was that we should call ourselves The All Stars . |
| 23 | Now the person possessing the goods after the time limit , even if he holds the goods in bad faith , may call himself the rightful owner , while the original owner promptly loses all rights . |
| 24 | The American government has just brought out two new reports providing fresh evidence about the life and death of the man who called himself the sinful Messiah . |
| 25 | They called themselves the Red Lions , after the name of the pub where they first met in Birmingham in 1839 . |
| 26 | But at least it brought in a lot of new business for the organisation which now likes to call itself the listening bonk . |
| 27 | Five years later , in 1833 , King William IV became Patron and gave the Society permission to call itself The Royal Perth Golfing Society . |
| 28 | A choice of dates is available from which to reckon the life of the College : 1 8 February 1791 , when the London committee decided to call itself The Veterinary College , London , and 8 April 1791 , when the president , vice-presidents and directors were elected and the statutes and regulations were approved . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , to call oneself the Fourth Estate is hardly unambitious , while the very names and nicknames of newspapers tell us much about their occupational pretensions — The Times ( the Thunderer ) , the Guardian , the Globe , the Tribune , the Observer , the Examiner , the Mirror and Le Monde . |
| 30 | The cause of the brave men and women who call themselves the Christian guerrillas is just . |