Example sentences of "call it the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could have called it the year of their persecution : |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The ancients called it the God of the Underworld . |
| 6 | He 's actually called it the Gazette so we do n't know if it 's political |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | They used to called it the hump did n't they ? |
| 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 | They should have called it the charge of the bike brigade . |
| 11 | The villagers called it The Mansion and viewed it and its formal garden of still and silent yew trees with awe . |
| 12 | Well , a few years back someone else not far away opened a late-night disco and also called it the House of Music ! |
| 13 | But they 've called it the house ? |
| 14 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) |
| 15 | ( As I can speak of red without calling it the colour of blood . ) ’ |
| 16 | The hon. Member for Rugby and Kenilworth stood up and praised it to the heavens — they all did , calling it the flagship of their policy . |
| 17 | Aenarion opposed this , calling it the council of despair . |
| 18 | One of Ariel 's songs which he appended went like this , and sometimes Serafine sang it , and Xanthe and Miranda both enjoyed singing it with her , calling it the song of Manjiku : |
| 19 | Incidentally — ’ he patted me on the knee' — we 're calling it the Infenestration of Leytonstone back at the Shop . |
| 20 | They 're calling it the curse of the L-plate . |
| 21 | Forlornly comical in photos , with its gaunt face and fluffy body , no one else from dusty patent lawyers to impassioned animal rights activists can resist calling it the Gheep . |
| 22 | Other developments for the backpacker : Coleman are now making their Multifuel stove with a detachable fuel bottle and calling it the Apex stove . |
| 23 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , California , will this week unveil the Iris Indigo DevStation , calling it the industry 's first desktop especially configured for software developers . |
| 24 | Marshall had taken to calling it the rumour factory because a disproportionate amount of time seemed to be wasted on chatter . |
| 25 | We 're hoping and I 'm crossing my fingers here , that we 'll get in excess of five thousand people there and the interesting thing is we 've got a commercial exhibition at it , to give it a flavour of Scotland where people will show all the good things made in Scotland and we 're calling it the taste and touch of Scotland and hopefully that will offset the cost of all the other , other er stalls and things that we 're holding . |
| 26 | Winston calls it the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , you know — although we have no riffraff , naturally . |
| 27 | My friend and colleague Sandy Frey has correctly recognised this as a fundamental process for the cube , and for other mathematical groups , and he calls it the Principle of Partial Inverses ; a piece moved by P is restored by P — 1 , provided nothing else has moved it in between . |
| 28 | He calls it the Defenestration of Ramsey Everett . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |
| 30 | These things always come along as a bit of an afterthought because they are never going to make as much money as the workstation version , but Hewlett-Packard Co has now introduced its most powerful VMEbus board-level computer yet , and calls it the HP 9000 Model 742i . |