Example sentences of "by [Wh det] [pron] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Cilicap in southern Java we have watched old men being most convincingly possessed by what they call the spirits of horses , monkeys and pigs . |
| 2 | It is very difficult to get essential oil from the rose , it has to be done by what they call extraction . |
| 3 | Th drawing you see there used to perhaps be some like that there wide and then the er then that narrow well you 'd got to divide them by what they call drawing . |
| 4 | In all seriousness , I ask the Government not to deride the strong arguments for a local income tax just because they happen to be advanced by what they call minority parties . |
| 5 | And lawyers for the two Libyans suspected of the Lockerbie bombing say a Jury in Scotland might be influenced by what they call prejudicial pretrial publicity . |
| 6 | ‘ The first few hundred that sold were probably bought by what we call technophiles — people who are crazy to get new stuff — but since then it 's moved out . ’ |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there is a price to pay for everything and , under this Government , that price is measured by what we call the poll tax and will soon no doubt be measured by the council tax . |
| 8 | As an emancipated woman of the 20th century , much of whose life was spent in New England , Yourcenar feels compassion for those whose lives were thwarted by what she calls the philistinism of 19th-century Catholicism , that of her Belgian ancestors in particular . |
| 9 | The findings of the male researchers , she claims , are dogged by what she calls the problem of women ‘ whose sexuality remains more diffuse , whose perception of self is so much more tenaciously embedded in relationships with others and whose moral dilemmas hold them in a mode of judgment that is insistently contextual ’ . |
| 10 | Infuriated by what she called the actions of a wicked little sneak , Smallfry had forced him to eat every last crumb of the cake without allowing him to clean the dirt and animal saliva from its surface . |
| 11 | This visit , too , became an annual event — Eliot enjoyed the quiet of his mother-in-law 's home , and Mrs Fletcher in turn was much taken by what she called the " virginal " quality of her son-in-law . |
| 12 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 13 | However , he says , ‘ our own society — at least the academic sub-society within it [ a significant qualification in view of the current argument ] — sets great store by what it calls , and thinks to be , objectivity and has certain standards of dispassionate , scientific investigation , to which at least lip service is paid and which may , of course , be distorted by unrecognised prejudice of one kind or another ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 14 | Rangoon radio said the airliner was 20 minutes into its flight when it was taken over by what it called ‘ terrorists disguised as passengers ’ . |
| 15 | He is struck by what he calls ‘ the immensely accidental quality ’ of events in his life . |
| 16 | The president is a zealous evangelical Christian , obsessed of late by what he calls a ‘ plot ’ by a ‘ mafia ’ of drug traffickers to take over the country . |
| 17 | In fact all good poetry , according to Wimsatt , is characterized by an intricate network of analogical relationships created by what he calls the ‘ iconic ’ properties of the verbal medium . |
| 18 | Dr Armstrong Davison , captivated by the legend like so many others , began on the prosecution side , convinced by what he called the ‘ orthodox belief that Mary was a wanton and a murderess ’ . |
| 19 | They had done very little swapping of horses , mainly because Nails refused to and Hoomey , having become accustomed to the feel of Bones 's hulk beneath him , was terrified by what he called the ‘ slippery ’ ponies — Midnight and Firelight — and could not make Spot move at all . |
| 20 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 21 | For Noah , it was a glorious culmination of dedication , endeavour and skill by what he called ‘ … our whole tennis family ’ . |
| 22 | Firstly by the theatre ; secondly by what he called his Pygmalion , even his Svengali , complex . |
| 23 | Primary process thinking is driven by what he called the pleasure principle , whereby the instant gratification of infantile desires is achieved by making use of a number of irrational but personally satisfying mental tricks ( mechanisms he called condensation , displacement , substitution and symbolization ) . |
| 24 | His mind for a long time before this crisis arose had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a Council of State … |
| 25 | Morse had insisted on travelling by what he called the ‘ scenic ’ route — via Cirencester but , alas , the countryside was not appearing at its best : the golden days were gone , and the close-cropped fields where the sheep ever nibbled looked dank and uninviting under a sky-cover of grey cloud . |