Example sentences of "call it the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First on the scene , a showy horse , a Palomino — the locals called it the cardboard horse . |
| 2 | The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process . |
| 5 | The called it the Silly Women Running Idle , but that was just for fun . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life . |
| 8 | The Thrills Nerve Centre has now been ‘ computer-ed up ’ for the '90s and that is precisely why they 're all calling it The Hi-Tech Capital Of Satire . |
| 9 | MapInfo Inc , Troy , New York , is shipping its MapBasic Development Environment for Unix calling it the first programming language for GUI systems allowing corporate developers to customise desktop mapping applications for a given industry or department . |
| 10 | Verbatim Corp , Charlotte , North Carolina has come out with a 3.5 ’ partial-ROM optical disk , calling it the first image and data storage optical product to combine both magneto-optic and read-only functionality : the read-only part of the disk can be embossed permanently with data , such as an application , and the rewritable portion of the disk is available for user files ; the disks have total combined ROM and rewritable capacity of 128Mb . |
| 11 | Moreover , they choose to disregard the ordinary law governing the transfer of title , calling it the civil law , as if to contrast it with the criminal law and thus render it surplus to requirements . |
| 12 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 13 | I shall call it the normal justification thesis . |
| 14 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
| 15 | ‘ I would n't exactly call it the uncharted wilderness . ’ |
| 16 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 17 | I shall call it the fact-presupposing explanation . |
| 18 | Do you think being in love is let's call it the mating instinct , is being in love merely the mating instinct operating , button one for yes and button two for no , let's er , let's seal that little lust abate there , well forty seven say yes basically I suppose basically being in love is lust , fifty three say no and what about that , that other point , I mean should you marry for love ? , button one for yes and button two for no , should you marry for love ? well what very modern people you are , cos eighty two of you said yes , fifteen said no , who said no ? |
| 19 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 20 | That were the same kind o' place : they called it the Six Mile House . |
| 21 | People said things like for instance well females are n't intelligent enough to make choices and er which is , which is clearly pretty silly , and er there was also I think and the uncomfortable erm prospect that females could in some way or another control the evolution in males which I do n't think it appealed to the Victorians either and in fact many social Darwinists like Edward Westermark for example rejected the whole concept of sexual selection as Darwin called it the female choice , because it did n't promote survival of the fittest . |
| 22 | Years ago they had all these narrow looms , about this size , and this is where women worked , they called it the narrow section , and maybe mostly for hotels or you know , in the olden days they had stair , your mother 'll probably , stair runners or holes and the , the carpet just went like that and there 'd be a piece of lino up the side , |
| 23 | The book was praised by Goethe and by Sir Walter Scott , who called it the finest book ever written . |
| 24 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 25 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 26 | Twenty-five years later , when Thérèse and Léonie at last began to talk to each other about that time , they called it the odd summer . |
| 27 | When Scrooge was premiered in Birmingham last year Gloria Honeyford called it the hottest selling ticket outside of London . |
| 28 | They called it the old comedians |
| 29 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 30 | ‘ We used to call it the Bitching Hour . |