Example sentences of "[vb mod] call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro , or rather what we should call a judicial separation , i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct ; but a divorce in the modern sense , which allows the parties to marry again , is not recognized by the medieval church in the case of any marriage which is originally valid . |
| 2 | The feudal bond established in the first place a special relationship between the lord and a man whom we should call a cavalry officer , whom they called a vassal . |
| 3 | The result of this was a surprise telephone call from Jenny herself suggesting that we should call a meeting . |
| 4 | The formula is for a simple raspberry purée and cream mixture which today we should call a raspberry fool . |
| 5 | Opposite the fire-place was a table , which I should call a Pembroke , only that it was made of deal , and I can not tell how far such a name may be applied to such humble material . |
| 6 | At the words ‘ Porto de ’ ciechi e miseri mortali' in the madrigal ‘ O morte , eterno fin ’ Rore writes what in modern terminology we should call a succession of C major , A major , B minor , G major , C major , and G minor chords . |
| 7 | ‘ If you 're going to enjoy Tivoli as it deserves to be enjoyed , I think for tonight at least we should call a truce , ’ he suggested , apparently unaware of her intense reaction to his touch , as they walked past the Pantominteatret , where a performance of the traditional Italian pantomime was taking place on the open-air stage . |
| 8 | I must call a halt here to brain-numbing estimates of expenditure . |
| 9 | Shortly after that they must call a meeting of their creditors and present a statement of affairs including a list of all the company 's debts . |
| 10 | Dulé found himself longing , this carnage , this bloodshed must come to an end , we must call a truce , make a new treaty . |
| 11 | Before resigning , the trustee must call a meeting of creditors and the notice of the meeting must be accompanied by an account of his administration ( r 6.126 ) . |
| 12 | I must call a car . ’ |
| 13 | With one part of her bemused and disorientated mind she knew that she must call a halt — right now ! |
| 14 | Half-way through the last act we 'll call a doctor , and the police if you like — they wo n't stop the show then and the delay wo n't harm Bunty , poor little cow . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If there is a problem or a proposal , she 'll call a meeting involving those immediately concerned . |
| 16 | Then I 'll call a district meeting where I 'll get other branches together erm shop stewards and that , and I 'll pass this information , I 've let them know there 's such a thing as . |
| 17 | Then I 'll call a vote for the deliverance or against the counter motion . |
| 18 | I 'll call a taxi . ’ |
| 19 | Instead we have what I 'll call a bits and pieces economy . |
| 20 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 21 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 22 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 23 | Apart form losing the hypnotics , the end curvature ( what a transport engineer might call a filter road ) can suggest the positive robustness of the earth swelling beyond the frame . |
| 24 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 25 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 26 | If necessary the prosecution might call a vehicle examiner to give evidence where there is some technical failure of the handbrake such as a worn ratchet causing the brake lever to slip or a frayed cable which snapped under pressure . |
| 27 | But I not seen one yet as you might call a proper bleeding accident , if you takes my meaning ? ’ |
| 28 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 29 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 30 | Charles feared for the unity of his dominions under the threat of Protestantism , and it seemed he might call a national synod in Germany which would not only undermine the authority of the papacy , but in the interests of political unity approve theological positions Rome could never accept . |