Example sentences of "call an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is called an only child , my dear … ’ |
| 2 | It has long been clear that IBM Corp 's latest restructuring into 13 somewhat autonomous business units has taken too long and has not gone far enough , and the company has called an extraordinary board meeting for this Tuesday to decide what cuts need to be made to meet 1993 targets . |
| 3 | With criticism of the government 's handling of the affair mounting , Mitterrand on Feb. 4 called an extraordinary session of parliament . |
| 4 | Other organizations : Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries ( CEPGL ) [ see p. 37569 for recent summits ] ; Customs and Economic Union of Central Africa ( UDEAC ) , held 26th summit , Congo , December , and called an extraordinary summit meeting for April 1991 in Gabon to tackle its economic crisis . |
| 5 | Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals . |
| 6 | I 'm never never one for for making work but on an a on although this is n't going to be called an annual report for most children it will be an annual event and I do feel quite strongly that for the child to be able to have the opportunity |
| 7 | Although we can not expect them to become typographers or graphic designers , we do believe that even in the short time available during our course we can give them what might be called an aesthetic awareness that will enable them to make reasonable decisions in their future work . |
| 8 | ‘ And that did n't cause what you 've just called an international incident ? ’ |
| 9 | This paper only gives erm an , what is called an integrated pollution inspectorate , now unfortunately with those sort of central inspectorates is that after the public 's attention has drifted on , they tend to be erm , they tend to dwindle in numbers , as we 've seen with the present pollution inspectorate . |
| 10 | The recording has what might be called an honest directness — it is clear and bright , if a little too closely miked , but in both performance and recording I miss truly elegant characterisations of these particular scores . |
| 11 | The shorthand sentence is called an algebraic expression . |
| 12 | Any complex number which is a root of an equation unc where unc are integers will , said Dedekind , be called an algebraic number . |
| 13 | Now all of the intervals also have what is called an augmented interval and a diminished interval . |
| 14 | If , at some point , a legal reform , a ‘ crackdown ’ or a relatively abrupt social change , X , takes place , we have It may be possible to use this pattern sometimes called an interrupted time series to measure the effect of X , if any . |
| 15 | Actually , this one 's called an Official Match Day Magazine , presumably to differentiate it from all the unofficial ones . |
| 16 | Poor guy was going , well I do n't understand it , you know , normally we Went to erm Malta last year and there was a great erm tt it 's called an underwater safari , but , you know , normally when you 're , like on Windermere like you 've got a glass-bottomed boats |
| 17 | Such a machine is called an RNA-replicase molecule . |
| 18 | For more than 50 years I have nurtured what might be called an insatiable interest in China and the arts , crafts , and accomplishments of the Chinese people , the oldest extant civilization on earth . |
| 19 | Neither Leland nor Camden has much to say about industry in England ; and there was nothing that could be specifically called an industrial landscape . |
| 20 | Revlon 's Ecologie range , therefore , has what they 've called an Environmental Protection System , and contains vitamin E , said to help protect our bodies against free radicals . |
| 21 | Instead of proclaiming victory , Mr Yeltsin kept quiet after the referendum and called an expanded meeting of his cabinet for April 29th . |
| 22 | The prospect has been that atoms cooled to microkelvin temperatures , with an arrangement called an atomic fountain , would allow orders-of-magnitude improvements in frequency standards . |
| 23 | Er it 's called an imagined ugliness syndrome and it can lead to unnecessary plastic surgery or eating disorders . |
| 24 | In the forties the quarry owners got emergency planning permission called an Interim Development Order or IDO . |
| 25 | The first is called an Operational Standard and has five requirements : |
| 26 | Such a borehole is called an artesian well . |
| 27 | A set with no members is called an empty set . |
| 28 | Concerned , however , that these words might make him seem too frivolous , in the simple delight he obviously took in playing with his cat , he checks himself with the criticism that ‘ verily it may well be called an idle man 's pastime ’ . |
| 29 | Colombia , which is president of the UN Security Council , called an informal session . |
| 30 | So is what is sometimes called an open conditional : If it is raining , the balcony is wet . |