Example sentences of "what [noun] call an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If historical time is the existence of the social totality then the relation between the two must be one of immediacy , allowing what Althusser calls an ‘ essential section ’ , that is ‘ a break in the present such that all the elements of the whole revealed by this section are in an immediate relationship with one another , a relationship that immediately expresses their internal essence ’ . |
| 2 | According to this definition , literalization is a metaphoric mapping of what Barthes calls an ‘ acratic ’ or specialized discourse onto an ‘ encratic ’ or universal one . |
| 3 | He was what Anna called an impertinent young man . |
| 4 | The adoption of this approach within certain subjects is based on what Ball calls an academic perspective , where teachers tend to be strongly subject-centred , to view their own subject as setting special intellectual demands because of its allegedly ‘ linear ’ quality , to favour homogeneous ability grouping , and to prefer whole-class teaching methods . |
| 5 | But there is an important difference between the clock , which is what Locke calls an ‘ artificial substance ’ , and naturally occurring substances such as gold . |
| 6 | Mouse had what people call an ‘ inferiority complex ’ about being small . |
| 7 | So bad are those inconsistencies and such the maladroitness of parents that most people come through the ordeal of childhood permanently scarred and possessing what Harris calls an I 'm not O.K. , You 're O.K. personality . |