Example sentences of "call it [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But Ms Hilary Armstrong , education spokesman for Labour and North West Durham MP , called it a desperate measure to save Mr Fallon 's parliamentary seat .
2 sort of , the , the last pair went , went on and on and on , it got to twelve o'clock and the the , the landlord said right that 's it he said I 'm closing down no matter what , he said I 'd , I 've , he was n't eleven o'clock on , he said that 's it I ca n't keep it open any longer , so they closed it down , we called the game off , called it a boring match , they came down the club , fucking played them there , thrashed them out of sight first four games , no first five games , five nil , straight away , wahey , fucking walloped them , walloped their that was the , that was the league champion 's as well , Post Office in Grantham
3 An International Commission on unprotected children on city streets called it a growing urban tragedy needing concrete action not just concern ( Agnelli , 1986 ) .
4 First on the scene , a showy horse , a Palomino — the locals called it the cardboard horse .
5 The American golf historian Herb Warren Wind has called it the greatest bunker shot in all championship play .
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 We have looked upon it almost as convertible with thought , of which we have called it the very stuff and process .
8 The called it the Silly Women Running Idle , but that was just for fun .
9 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 ) .
10 Someone had once called it the biggest open mental institution in the world , one of the twin armpits of the British Isles , presumably with Glasgow as the other , Glasgow before the tartan yuppies got to it .
11 Job cuts are almost certain to follow and a former Dowty director has called it the worst day of his life .
12 General manager called it an important milestone and said : ‘ I believe it is a clear demonstration of our commitment to providing customers with high quality products and support services . ’
13 I have called it an unorthodox theory because few adhere to it .
14 While other newspapers were wrongly calling it a second honeymoon , TODAY revealed that virtually the only time the couple acknowledged each other was when Diana intercepted a phone call from Charles to Mrs Parker-Bowles and a screaming row erupted .
15 The USA had constantly insisted that the Krasnoyarsk radar station should be dismantled , calling it a major obstacle to the conclusion of a START treaty , and had rejected as inadequate a Soviet decision on Oct. 27 , 1988 , to turn the complex over to the Soviet Academy of Sciences for civilian use .
16 Cupertino , California 's Globetrotter Software Inc , creators of Flexlm , the network license manager , last week introduced GlobeSupport , a remote support software aimed at software developers , calling it a new product category .
17 Calling it a significant strategic alliance and the new cornerstone of its Unix division , Gates/FA , the US national distributor , will be distributing the developer 's Interactive System Unix to its resellers under license from SunSoft Inc .
18 Nobody would be calling it an isolated or random act .
19 Autocar simply puts is another way , calling it the best small car in the world .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 Unix System Labs Inc last week said it has started delivering early access versions of Distributed Computing Environment DCE/SVR4 secure code to its OEMs , calling it the first tangible results of its new-found rapprochement with the Open Software Foundation .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The group is strong because it has access to power through its institutional involvement with the state , which is why Becker calls it a corporate bourgeoisie .
26 The Local Government union NALGO calls it an infamous act of betrayal to Jamie Robertson , who helped bring in thousands of new jobs to the area following the closure of the railway works in the mid nineteen eightees .
27 She calls it the magic flannel and says : ‘ Mummy you 'll be fine .
28 If , if X was a million say , you could forget about a million minus ten , let's just call it a million ,
29 You can call it a delayed action , if you like , but it is never the former .
30 I would call it a holding offence ! ’
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