Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [pron] [pron] call [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 2 | The thesis of Jakobson 's ‘ Closing statement ’ is that in poetic language relationships of equivalence or similarity not only concern absent items , but also become dominant present factors in the verbal sequence — that the two aspects of what he calls the ‘ bipolar structure of language ’ ( 1956 : 78 ) in a sense merge . |
| 3 | Patricia Morgan plumps for this timescale in her critique of the ‘ New Establishment ’ of social workers , psychologists , teachers and other exponents of what she calls the ‘ New Socio-Psychological Expertise ’ of child care and education . |
| 4 | A point may be reached when the external stresses on any level become so great that in order to defend , repair and maintain order in the system the healing powers produce symptoms and signs of what we call an illness or disease . |
| 5 | With a dominance and bodily expression also suggested in illus.1 , Rey is thus known to have exercised , with lasting success , many musical functions of what we call a ‘ conductor ’ |
| 6 | The World Wide Fund for Nature have now put substantial donations into what they call the ‘ consortium ’ side of the Derwent case , the landowners , anglers , bird shooters , ornithologists and others . |
| 7 | COMMUTERS stood on tracks disrupting London-bound trains yesterday in protest at British Rail 's ‘ scorched earth ’ policy for eliminating the perennial problem of leaves on the line More than 50 people at Carshalton , Surrey , swapped season tickets for placards to protest at the transformation of leafy tracksides into what one called a ‘ scene from Apocalypse Now ’ , the film about the Vietnam war which showed the effects of mass defoliation with napalm . |
| 8 | Whereas most French adventures focus on mechanical sports , such as the Paris-Dakar Rally and the 2000-mile Harricana Snowmobile Race in Canada , Fusil was adamant that any sports in what he called the Raid Gauloises would be human or animal-powered only . |
| 9 | There are always a priori assumptions of what we call an ideological nature , which are not amenable to proof , but which may helpfully be amenable to explicit and prior communication . |
| 10 | His Foreign Minister , Michio Watanabe , had caused outrage in 1988 by attributing America 's difficulties to what he called the irresponsibility of its black population . |
| 11 | Its sees its involvement with Eo as in keeping with its strategy of strengthening its technological and product base through strategic alliances , and as complementary to its other activities in what it calls the ‘ the new telecom world ’ . |
| 12 | Melossi ( 1985 ) discusses how social discourses change with the various stages of what he calls the political business cycle . |
| 13 | Both of them have workshops at the Abbey and are members of what they call a spiritual community there . |
| 14 | When we blame our ills upon someone we call a ‘ witch ’ we proclaim our own innocence at their expense . |
| 15 | In the highest-level United States visit since the crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in June 1989 , Secretary of State James Baker held talks in Beijing on Nov. 15-17 with Chinese leaders on what he called the " real problems " of trade , weapons proliferation , regional security and human rights . |
| 16 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 17 | Yes , they come from the local schools and erm The Watch , the children of what they call The Watch erm part of the Sussex Trust come along , and erm oh , they just pop in and very often they , at the end of term they come with tadpoles and things that they Oh , I , I have n't mentioned the frogs and toads , we 've plenty of those . |
| 18 | The Labour party said that it wanted some mechanism other than discounts ; that it would deal with pensioners with what it called a single pensioner premium . |
| 19 | Of their few helpful recommendations , the Committee suggested tapering of HLCAs on larger livestock numbers ( but were not specific ) and paying increased HLCAs in what it called the ‘ disfavoured areas ’ ( Highlands and Islands ) but only there . |
| 20 | He devoted the rest of his life to bringing order to the parliamentary records after what he called the ‘ negligence ’ of his predecessors . |
| 21 | Not the arteries to your toenails or the tip of your nose , but the arteries to what we call the vital organs . |
| 22 | They had n't made university and the difference between their comfortable life style — houses on an executive estate , en suite bathrooms , artificial coal fires in what they called the lounge , working wives , a new car every two years and timeshares in Majorca — provided both with agreeable hours of self-satisfied comparisons which he knew would always end with the same conclusion , that he ought to pull himself together , that it was n't right , not after all the sacrifices Mum and Dad had made to send him to college , and a fine waste of money that had proved . |
| 23 | In response to the document , the Belauan authorities in August appealed to the UN Trusteeship and Security Councils over what they called the US proposal " to eliminate democracy and self-government " in Belau . |