Example sentences of "[adj] what [pron] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is this what they call European hospitality ? ’ she asked . |
| 2 | This was Easter time , this what you call an anniversary . |
| 3 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
| 4 | Erm but there are a few what I call golden rules to avoid becoming one of these four hundred people every week who come into our advice centre . |
| 5 | It 's just happened to er you 're gon na have to get some what they call it ? |
| 6 | Some what I call are comfy ones , some that I ca n't breathe in , you know ! |
| 7 | Oh oh cos I mean they use today they have n't got these what they call are common users on the railway now . |
| 8 | If they build traditional what they call traditional terrace type housing , I think the community in itself will er just adjust to that . |
| 9 | ‘ The butlers come from many different backgrounds , ’ John Serbrock says , ‘ but they are all what I call ‘ Can do ’ people . |
| 10 | Come on , tell us all what you call your mam . ’ |
| 11 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 12 | The old lady was er opening the the the not a just what we call the chamber , er the the downstairs bedroom . |
| 13 | This might suggest that the so-called imaginary time is really the real time , and that what we call real time is just a figment of our imaginations . |
| 14 | The fundamental argument is again that human beings are still very ‘ basic ’ beings ; that is , they have evolved over millions of years and that what we call civilisation or culture represents only a fraction of human history . |
| 15 | Is that what we call it now ? |
| 16 | Is that what they call it ? |
| 17 | ‘ Is that what they call dry English wit ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Is that what they call British understatement ? ’ he asked drolly , as they glided out of countryside and into the outskirts of Mariánské Láznë , and Fabia just had to laugh . |
| 19 | ‘ Is that what I call you ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Is that what you call it ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Is that what you call it ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Is that what you call it ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ A vastly overestimated pastime , or is n't that what you call it ? |
| 24 | ‘ Is that what you call efficient use of processing resources ? |
| 25 | And Alina said , ‘ Is that what you call a welcome ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Is that what you call it ? ’ |
| 27 | Is that what you call it ? |
| 28 | Nice to see a real Oswaldstonian — is that what you call yourselves ? eh ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Is n't that what you call them ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Is that what you call revolutionary consciousness ? ’ |