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

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1 But no , it seemed to be the local name for the twenty kilo fish which was giving me a hard time , though later someone else called it a kingfish .
2 Fleming had called it a ferment , or enzyme , but that did not take matters very far , and gave no hint of what it might ferment , or of what substance it attacked in susceptible microbes .
3 The local MP called it a press stunt .
4 The teacher called it a springboard .
5 What they 're doing is actually going a lot further , and supply us all the their ac accounts and details , and they 've actually sort of called it a grant for partial costs of materials , right , so we 're actually
6 called it a day
7 Hooker David Spiers , who played against Fiji and New Zealand , has called it a day long with lock John Robertsen , who was injured against France after appearing in the opening win over Fiji .
8 It was time she also called it a day ; she would continue with the work she was doing after she 'd eaten .
9 By the end of the season , Moores ' partners called it a day .
10 Chris and I have called it a day . ’
11 Okay , well maybe we could have called it a day now .
12 Many a player would have called it a day then ; not Audley .
13 But the Wallsend Harrier called it a day at 50 miles with a hamstring injury , leaving Tony Lenagan , of Wigan Phoenix , and Edinburgh 's Dave Wallace to battle it out .
14 That , wrote Harsnet , is part of the reason why I have chosen glass and not canvas or wood , that is why in my notes I have called it a delay in glass , which is to say a refusal of shit .
15 The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ .
16 Very few people at all would ever ever ever ever say that and we look at the , when we look at the , the erm format you 'll find called it a sadist because chains on him from because on him so that we .
17 Only the longing for meat ( some commentators have called it a lust , but the Hebrew does not pass that judgement ) , the claim that their appetite is gone , or their throats are dry , or , as the RSV has it , their strength is dried up ( the Hebrew will sustain all those translations ) , and an unspecified complaining about their misfortunes .
18 People have wrongly called it a microprocessor , when that really should be restricted to the processing unit itself rather than the complete microcomputer .
19 Bass guitarist Bill called it a sham .
20 Some people called it a riot .
21 And er I think some people might have called it a slum , I suppose they were in a way .
22 We have n't actually called it a science park but it 's something on that line , yes .
23 In this Style File ( perhaps we should have called it a Riff File ) we will look at some of his best known parts , as taken from his extremely successful ‘ Reckless ’ and ‘ Waking Up The Neighbours ’ LPs …
24 You could have called it the year of their persecution :
25 They 've called it the Fellowship of Christian Spiritualists of 24 Stranraer Gardens , and they have a lot of fun , singing and dancing and playing the tambourine in the back room downstairs .
26 Horne had first made his name on radio in the days when most people still called it the wireless — on another wartime show which supposedly told everything you ever wanted to know about an RAF station .
27 Jonas called it the family-room , where there were plenty of comfortable chairs and couches and it did n't matter if you put your feet up .
28 The ancients called it the God of the Underworld .
29 He 's actually called it the Gazette so we do n't know if it 's political
30 Early writers called it the battle of Branxton , but Flodden came to be preferred , probably because of balladeers like Sir Walter Scott and Jane Elliott ( The Flowers of the Forest ) .
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