Example sentences of "which we call " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of us had ever been here before and we were all living together in one flat , which we called Pig Mansions , in Earls Court . |
| 2 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ We did the last part of the tour which we called Tour Five . |
| 3 | The food was not particularly appetising — I remember with especial distaste the packeted pastry fruit pies which we called ‘ cardboard tarts ’ — but then , few expected delectable food in wartime . |
| 4 | We called at several small shops and houses in the better-class district which we called ‘ the kippers and curtains ’ . |
| 5 | Oh it was er it was about six pound in weight when you put it together anyway , and erm used to make parts for aircraft and parts for the dropping of the bombs which we called drop bars . |
| 6 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 7 | Because we did n't know where in the brain any changes might occur , or very much about chick brain anatomy ( nor , it should be said , did anyone else at the time ) , we divided the forebrain arbitrarily into two regions which we called simply ‘ roof ’ and ‘ base ’ . |
| 8 | At the beginning of Chapter 3 , in Table 3.1 , we divided financial institutions into two groups : those comprising the monetary sector and those which we called non-bank financial intermediaries , now ‘ NBFIs ’ for short . |
| 9 | Pound belongs in that sub-class of the species ‘ critic ’ , which we call ‘ poet-critic ’ . |
| 10 | For distance you must now substitute that very special , and far less abstract , sort of distance which we call height : height which speaks immediately to our muscles and nerves . |
| 11 | It 's this marvellous giving and taking and sharing which provides these marvellous explosions which we call inspired moments which sometimes result in a work of art . |
| 12 | The message was clear : throughout ‘ the great English Republic , which we call … |
| 13 | In particular we discuss two aspects of the interpretation of definite pronouns , which we call role mapping and name mapping , and suggest that either one of them may not occur in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 14 | This phenomenon , which we call ‘ cognitive trial-and-error ’ , requires a deductive process to go on inside the mind of the animal without its actually trying different behaviours . |
| 15 | Whilst the maladjustments remain present , these malconditions increase day by day and week by week , and foster that unsatisfactory state which we call ‘ Unhappiness ’ . |
| 16 | Of all these expanding emotions , the one which we call compassion , may have been the first to emerge and could be the one of greatest importance , but the origins of all of them could almost certainly be found far back in evolutionary time . |
| 17 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 18 | For those who rear children , one of the most difficult tasks if not the most difficult , is learning the art of instilling and developing in the young mind that mysterious thing which we call the conscience . |
| 19 | The answer to the question lies with that strange emotion which we call ‘ love ’ . |
| 20 | These creatures may be just human beings , or just animals or a mixture of both , but which , in this instance , and ignoring for the purposes of this chapter those deviations which we call perversions , are not affected by any element of sexual attraction . |
| 21 | These are the institutions which we call the manor or the seigneurie . |
| 22 | In fact , its sense organs and body are only an outward expression of this inward patterning , which we call instinct . |
| 23 | The difference between a living organism and one just newly dead is that something which we call life has departed , something which we can neither see , hear , smell , touch , weigh or in any physical sense quantify , but which animates and directs the physical organism while it is alive , and gives it the power to counteract the forces of disintegration and decay . |
| 24 | He asks , ‘ Has our civilisation by virtue of the inhumanity it has carried out and condoned … forfeited its claims to that indispensable luxury which we call literature ? ’ ( pp. 72–73 ) . |
| 25 | We have just started a knitting club in Snaith which we call Knit and Nag . |
| 26 | It is hard to see how we could know this truth , or even understand what is meant by it , unless we were acquainted with something which we call ‘ I ’ … |
| 27 | Let us consider just two of them : ( 1 ) Is it true that the word ‘ here ’ is an exception to the rule that knowing the meaning of a word means knowing what is meant by it , that is , knowing something which we call by that word ? and ( 2 ) Supposing that the word ‘ here ’ can be used meaningfully without our knowing something which we call ‘ here ’ , are Russell and McTaggart right in their assumption that the word ‘ I ’ is not like ‘ here ’ in this respect ? |
| 28 | Let us consider just two of them : ( 1 ) Is it true that the word ‘ here ’ is an exception to the rule that knowing the meaning of a word means knowing what is meant by it , that is , knowing something which we call by that word ? and ( 2 ) Supposing that the word ‘ here ’ can be used meaningfully without our knowing something which we call ‘ here ’ , are Russell and McTaggart right in their assumption that the word ‘ I ’ is not like ‘ here ’ in this respect ? |
| 29 | ‘ The game we play with the word ‘ toothache ’ entirely depends upon there being a behaviour which we call the expression of toothache . ’ |
| 30 | So , ‘ the distinctive feature of Christian piety lies in the fact that whatever alienation from God there is in the phases of our experience , we are conscious of it as an action originating in ourselves , which we call Sin ; but whatever fellowship with God there is , we are conscious of it as resting upon a communication from the Redeemer , which we call Grace ’ . |