Example sentences of "call a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She picked listlessly at a plate of Sole bonne femme while Preston ate something called a Scampi provençale in a kind of nervous frenzy . |
| 2 | From now on , a syllable which carries a tone will be called a tonic syllable . |
| 3 | So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play . |
| 4 | I wondered why Americans always called a spade a manually powered entrenching instrument . |
| 5 | The slit was euphemistically called a squeeze . |
| 6 | I am constantly called a fool , because I have not that literary indigestion which throws up what it feeds on , every week or so . ’ |
| 7 | This is often called a curriculum vitae , or CV for short . |
| 8 | It finances these pensions from a flat-rate weekly poll tax , called a contribution , and a levy on employers per head of employee , with some supplement from general taxation . |
| 9 | The new device , called a quiteron , exploits the strange properties that some substances develop at very low temperatures . |
| 10 | Being a member of the Anabantidae family , they have an auxiliary breathing apparatus called a labyrinth into which they draw air from the surface . |
| 11 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 12 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 13 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 14 | Here a bath/basin spanner ( also called a crowsfoot spanner ) is needed — it comes in two sizes . |
| 15 | From the Friarfold Vein complicated branch veins run off in all directions in what is called a ribbon deposit . |
| 16 | We 're going to put you on what 's called a starter pack , now start this tomorrow night , okay ? |
| 17 | As a consequence , it was not until 1128 , and then in return for a very substantial sum , that they obtained royal recognition for their association , now called a peace confraternity rather than a commune . |
| 18 | A mortgage of tangible property is made by a deed , which is called a Bill of Sale ; and , under the Bills of Sale Act 1882 ( as modified by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 ) , it must be in the form given in the schedule to the latter Act , and attested and registered as required by that Act . |
| 19 | If you favoured sweating it out , you sat around on tiered benches and chatted with your friends until you started dissolving into steam , and then got yourself scraped down by a slave with a sort of sickle thing called a strigil , and massaged , and oiled and perfumed , or if you were a real fanatic you probably went straight from the hot room to take a cold plunge , like sauna addicts rolling in the snow . |
| 20 | The Open University degree is called a BA ( Bachelor of Arts ) irrespective of whether science or arts courses are included . |
| 21 | The most a really extensive small intrusion is a sheet-like form called a sill . |
| 22 | Not that Tiptoe could be called a child , by any stretch of the imagination . |
| 23 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 24 | ( 2 ) Unlike a police interview you will not be given what is called a caution . |
| 25 | 13 This shape is called a hexagon because it has six sides . |
| 26 | It 's called a parabola . |
| 27 | A rug made in the Persian town of Kashan is therefore known as a Kashan , and an item woven by the Belouch nomads is called a Belouch . |
| 28 | Then they went down the stairs to the wine counter and Arthur bought Fred some port a lot of port , what the noble-nosed assistant called a pipe of port . |
| 29 | The birds follow the dog and are lured down a wide tunnel made of netting called a pipe . |
| 30 | Its real purpose though — which the editor guessed ( oh yes ? ) — is for strengthening ankles , and it is called a wobble board . |