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 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 ) . |
| 3 | We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process . |
| 4 | The called it the Silly Women Running Idle , but that was just for fun . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine . |
| 9 | I shall call it the normal justification thesis . |
| 10 | ‘ I would n't exactly call it the uncharted wilderness . ’ |
| 11 | He gave a cool laugh , drawled , ‘ I guess you could call it the madonna-whore complex . ’ |
| 12 | I shall call it the fact-presupposing explanation . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 , |
| 17 | And he called it the long-term stewardship of a precious natural resource . |
| 18 | He called it the Black Beevbilde and by 1965 he had built up a sizeable herd . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They called it the old comedians |
| 21 | For transport she used the farmer 's pony and trap : the pony was so decrepit that we called it the dead pony . |
| 22 | ‘ We used to call it the Bitching Hour . |
| 23 | Oh yes at one time erm after the New Town got well started , after The Stow was built got to the , goes up to The Stow and be beyond er , well it 's just , going on into erm , er , towards the swimming bath , it was n't up there , swimming bath , erm and we used to call it the Shady Shop in , in adverts and er we used to have a lot of people used to come down because there was only The Stow then and er |
| 24 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 25 | in , in wha what is Jordan really , not what was Jordan , what is Jordan they call it now , they call it the occupied territories it seems to clean it up if you call it that . |
| 26 | More widely , engineers call it the concrete cancer . |
| 27 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 28 | Oh I call it the posh shop . |
| 29 | Some people call it The Young Americans Tour , others call it the Black Show because it was David as an R&B singer . |
| 30 | We call it the Conscious Paradigm . |