Example sentences of "call it a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just after the Second World War a village was sentenced to death by planners who called it a rural slum . |
| 32 | In the old Tarzan movies they used drums , and they also used natives and the warriors carried a stick , they called it a forked stick and it looks like the assembly might need a new set of forked sticks |
| 33 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 34 | He called it a disgraceful situation for a man in a position of trust . |
| 35 | ‘ Perhaps it would be more accurate to call it a total contradiction . ’ |
| 36 | It is also possible , also without such misuse , not to call the second member an effect , but to call it a nomic correlate instead , as we have . |
| 37 | To call it a personal relationship or to believe that the individuals contributed more than its pleasantries is an illusion . |
| 38 | This is more like the case of money paid without consideration — to call it a voluntary payment is an abuse of language . |
| 39 | This is more like the case of money paid without consideration — to call it a voluntary payment is an abuse of language . |
| 40 | To call it a remarkable sight is to set it against today 's standards . |
| 41 | Most GPs call it a two-tier service . |
| 42 | They call it a Hyper-micro vehicle , which in plain English means its small . |
| 43 | But critics call it a faceless environment … a paradise for cars not people . |
| 44 | Call it a fictional biography , a historical fantasy or just plain lies . |
| 45 | ‘ I call it a bloody insult ! , |
| 46 | ‘ Garang 's troops call it a tactical retreat , ’ said the political head of the breakaway SPLA faction , Dr Lam Akol . |
| 47 | Okay , what we 'll do then is get you to sign this form here , we call it a green form fairly obviously from its colour and that means that I can do up to erm about eighty six pounds worth of er a bit more depending on on what we have to do , and you do n't have to pay us anything towards that . |
| 48 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 49 | People call it a self-regulatory system , but it 's governed by statute , the Treasury presides over it all and the members of the SIB are not appointed by those whom they supervise . |
| 50 | So if you want it to beco to be a third you 've still got to make it an E and call it a double flat . |
| 51 | Medicine is n't definite at all ; I just call it a positive subject — you always get an answer . |
| 52 | This is why I call it a pessimistic theory . |