Example sentences of "[Wh det] he called the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing . |
| 2 | In 1971 he was asked to organise , at the Tate Gallery , an exhibition which he called The Essential Cubism . |
| 3 | In 1971 the Shah was also celebrating his own thirtieth anniversary on the throne , and the tenth anniversary of his reform programme , which he called the White Revolution , and which was supposed to introduce land reform , increase literacy , enfranchise women , modernize industry and the infrastructure , redistribute at least some wealth and lessen the power of the Muslim clergy , the mullahs . |
| 4 | SDLP councillor Dr Joe Hendron condemned the hypocrisy of Sinn Fein and what he called the depraved bombing of a hospital , ‘ attacking the most vulnerable ’ . |
| 5 | He also scrapped what he called the complex existing arrangements for taxing employees ' private use of company vans , introducing a simple scale charge of £500 covering both the van and any fuel provided . |
| 6 | With his tie awry , an alert pair of eyes sparkling behind gold-rimmed spectacles , he impressed the party by coming to the point rather than indulging in what he called the prefabricated speeches he had always hated . |
| 7 | He denounced what he called the appalling upsurge of ‘ vicious loyalist violence ’ , in which four people were murdered in five days . |
| 8 | Mr MacKay compared family income in Wales , not counting state benefits , with that in what he called the Inner Region Core South East England , East Anglia , the East Midlands and the South West . |
| 9 | Cos Jung had this idea that the whole the whole of life was a journey towards the discovery of what he called the real self . |
| 10 | Two thousand years ago , the biblical farmer was tormented by tares and Virgil was denouncing what he called the lazy thistle . |
| 11 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |
| 12 | He blamed what he called the painful kick-back of recent economic problems for the latest spate of job losses . |
| 13 | Whereas , in what he called the short Parliament of 1974 , no especially controversial measures could be introduced , the majority in the election later that year emboldened the government to take certain steps of a strongly political character , likely to arouse fierce opposition . |
| 14 | In a speech to the society 's annual general meeting on Friday , Mr Adair urged the Government to end what he called the piecemeal tinkering with the legal system . |
| 15 | The Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew has condemned what he called the brutal and loathsome murder last night of the director of a Londonderry building company . |
| 16 | It was an uncomfortable affair , the Mayor used it as an occasion to condemn what he called the Turkish occupation of the North of the island and Douglas Hurd looked on clearly anxious that the whole thing be wound up as soon as possible . |
| 17 | One feature of this oddness which has perhaps been overlooked was pointed out by Allan Rechtschaffen , which is what he called the single mindedness of dreams . |
| 18 | Stated baldly , and cheerfully ignoring the Secretary of State s admonition not to impute guilt to either Meehan or Waddell , his conclusions were that while Waddell and McGuinness probably carried out what he called the initial assault , ‘ it can not be disproved that Meehan and Griffiths were not a follow-up team with the role of dealing with the safe or safes believed to be in the bungalow ’ . |