Example sentences of "call the [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I find myself left with what may be called the first main proposition of this book : |
| 2 | The next printing , of 1866 , was from new type and was therefore the second edition , often , if not accurately , called the first published edition , on the grounds that , since so few of the 1865 copies were published and a number were recalled by Carroll , it was really a private printing and does n't count . |
| 3 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 4 | Dr Howe … an Oxford graduate … had been a tutor in English at the Open University based at Foxcombe Hall in Oxford for the past two years … she 's recently published her first book … through Cambridge university Press called the First English Actresses … colleagues say she had a bright future . |
| 5 | When your mother was Lorna Lewis , and still got called the last great blonde in Hollywood even if she had n't made a picture for ages , it was , worse than gross , it was a total bummer . |
| 6 | At least half the fund 's assets could end up going to the Treasury — a move which pensioners are calling the second Great Train Robbery . |
| 7 | And that 's what they called the first automatic washer . |
| 8 | There was a loud Boing ! and Trevor did n't say any more to him but just went back and called the first assistant director and said , ‘ I want that monstrosity out of my window . ’ |
| 9 | He dubbed them cheats , and told them they were swindling their audiences out of what he called the last great procession , when , after the wedding songs had been sung and the dances danced , the characters took their melancholy way off into darkness , following each other into oblivion . |
| 10 | Recall that in 1964 the developing countries used their voting power in the UN to call the first United Nations Conference of Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , because they had been frustrated by the rules operating in the GATT . |
| 11 | ‘ Improv is what we call the first dynamic spreadsheet for Windows . |
| 12 | What did Freud think anxiety was in , in what I call the first psychoanalytic revolution , the first period , the eighteen nineties ? |