Example sentences of "he call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not enough for him to call individual sinners to God . |
| 2 | In a brief discussion of the use of tense in English and Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 ) points out that some verbs refer to what is stated in the academic paper itself ( these he calls indicative verbs ) , while other verbs refer to what was actually done in the research on which the paper reports ( these he calls informative verbs ) . |
| 3 | Quine takes his start not from the familiar case but from what he calls radical translation ( see Quine , 1960 , ch. 2 ) . |
| 4 | George Brown in Human Teaching for Human Learning describes a project based on what he calls Confluent Education . |
| 5 | He draws attention to what he calls multiple estates , that is large areas of land made up of smaller units — the territories referred to later . |
| 6 | In a brief discussion of the use of tense in English and Brazilian academic abstracts , Johns ( 1991 ) points out that some verbs refer to what is stated in the academic paper itself ( these he calls indicative verbs ) , while other verbs refer to what was actually done in the research on which the paper reports ( these he calls informative verbs ) . |
| 7 | At the Dunn Nutrition Laboratory in Cambridge , Dr John Cummings has built his reputation on the importance of dietary fibre ( or what he calls non-starch polysaccharides ) . |
| 8 | The difference between the two he calls transitory income ( Y T ) . |
| 9 | First of all he contrasts representative democracy with what he calls enlightened despotism which is really something like places guardianship . |
| 10 | He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world . |
| 11 | Paul started making the sofas he calls driving seats last Spring and he 's already sold thirty.Some have gone abroad to Canada , the United States and Germany . |
| 12 | A car enthusiast has found a new way of making money out of Minis … he 's turning them into furniture.He 's making sofas which he calls driving seats … and they 're selling all over the world.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 13 | Paul started making the sofas he calls driving seats last Spring and he 's already sold thirty.Some have gone abroad to Canada , the United States and Germany . |
| 14 | Distinguishing between what he calls natural meaning ( as in Those black clouds mean rain ) , and non-natural meaning or meaning.nn ( equivalent to the notion of intentional communication ) , Grice gives the following characterization of meaning-nn ( 10 ) S meant-nn z by uttering U if and only if : ( i ) S intended U to cause some effect z in recipient H ( ii ) S intended ( i ) to be achieved simply by H recognizing that intention ( i ) Here , S stands for speaker ( in the case of spoken communication ; for sender or communicator in other cases ) ; H for hearer , or more accurately , the intended recipient ; " uttering U " for utterance of a linguistic token , i.e. a sentence part , sentence , or string of sentences or sentence parts ( or the production of non-linguistic communicative acts ) ; and z for ( roughly ) some belief or volition invoked in H. |
| 15 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |
| 16 | Mixing these two mediums , he has created what he calls Big Beat Poetry — thoughtful lyrics , dynamic raps , soulful melodies , harmonicas , flutes , much-favoured acoustic guitars and hints of reggae . |
| 17 | He used it in his study of primitive religion , and in his study of the change from what he called mechanical solidarity to organic solidarity . |
| 18 | Mr Lewis warned judges and magistrates who have been jailing offenders at an unprecedented rate , that pushing the service too far and too fast would create what he called unacceptable risks . |
| 19 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |
| 20 | Instead , he used what he called mimed dance or danced mime , insisting , when asked fur an explanation , that there was a subtle difference between them , ‘ only one of degree ’ . |
| 21 | The Emperor Constantine , impressed by the city 's possibilities , transferred the Imperial seat of government there in A.D. 330 and began to build a great new city which he called New Rome . |
| 22 | He saw that there was a sentiment which he called colonial nationalism , which was not merely separation , but a complex of local feeling and attachment to Britain . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , Thompson relates Marxist thinking to what he called industrial syndicalism and describes as one of the great themes of Owenism . |
| 24 | Heinsch saw sacred geometry and what he called sacred geography as being part of a continuum stretching out from the structure and form of the building into the surrounding countryside . |
| 25 | Joanna said , ‘ I had an uncle — he 's dead now , but I used to spend a lot of time in his surgery — and , apart from the essentials , he never went in for what he called expensive gimmicks . |
| 26 | Rees , a key figure in Rugby 's rise from area league status to the top division over the past six years , made his decision for what he called personal reasons , though his increasingly sharp disagreements with Brain became a talking point . |
| 27 | As written words meant nothing to Marian the name of the man who called himself her foster-father presented no difficulties , but Allen , the boy from the dales of Yorkshire , who could read no more than she could , liked tossing words about and playing with them like pebbles , so he called Fat Watt when he was out of earshot ‘ What Fat ’ . |
| 28 | Whether he had anything new to offer in place of the " stale dogmas of the Cold War " , as he called previous policies , was less clear . |
| 29 | Chomsky [ 1965 ] argued that word meanings can be accurately described by sets of bivalent features , which he called semantic markers , e.g. male , animate , human , etc . |
| 30 | He was particularly linked to the problems of football hooliganism and sparked a storm when he called English supporters deported from the Italian 1990 World Cup ‘ the effluent tendency ’ . |