Example sentences of "[pron] they call " in BNC.
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| 1 | The resources on which they call in making this decision include the above typifications , as well as local knowledge of the area and its crime , and contextual and time variables . |
| 2 | The modernity or postmodernity of the nouveau roman resides not only in the degree to which the novels in question are transgressive in narrative terms , but also in the extent to which they call into question the legitimacy of the practices they install . |
| 3 | We run down woodland paths , over rough pasture where the beef cattle join in and gallop alongside us , up over the convex slopes of the Sledging Hill , along a winding track through an overgrown shrubbery , which they call The Jungle , and out beside a string of fishing ponds . |
| 4 | But one of Clarke 's sons with a turfe spade , which they call a peate iron , ( a very keen thing , ) struck Sir Edward 's man on the head and cloave out his brains . |
| 5 | For those who find it hard to work with or explain coherently to others a set of numbers which have been raised to a power or logged , Mosteller and Tukey ( 1977 : 194 ) suggest a technique which they call ‘ matched re-expression ’ to rescale the transformed values to fall within the main range of the original number scale . |
| 6 | Southworth et al. ( 1989 ) have enhanced the MASSVAC model with the addition of a colour graphics module which they call MVOPL . |
| 7 | Non-Christians ( if they are honest ) have to say that they do n't know how the world and life was made ; they 've got loads of ideas ( which they call ‘ theories ’ ) but they do not and can not KNOW . |
| 8 | Many of the disciplines of contemplation have been designed precisely to wean the mind and head away from these earth-bound modes of perception to help them to discover another kind of experience , which they call ‘ spiritual ’ . |
| 9 | She described how they had carried their water in those sheepskins , which they call jerbah . |
| 10 | This has been characterised by Kamenka and Tay in terms of one of three great paradigms of social ideology , social organisation , law and administration , which they call the gesellschaft model of society . |
| 11 | Taken out of their non-violent society and ordered to kill , they seem to have been swept up in a sort of insanity which they call ‘ blood drunkenness ’ … |
| 12 | There are well-known objections to tariffs imposed to protect ailing industries and these are fully recognised by the most up-to-date protectionists who regard such tariffs as a primitive form which they call creeping protectionism [ Cripps and Godley , 1978 ; Godley , 1979 ; Singh , 1977 ] . |
| 13 | After noting that , in Owen 's expectation , passive resistance — that is , the ‘ sacred holiday month ’ or , in modern parlance , a general strike — would bring his new order of society painlessly into being , they next regret the persistence of the idea that Trade Unions , as Associations of Producers , should recover control of the instruments of production , an idea which they call ‘ Joint Stock Individualism ’ and which , they note , has scarcely been eradicated from the minds of the idealists of the trade union movement . |
| 14 | There 's a langouste or two , and some kind of silver sea bream which they call sarde round here , and some baudroie , that fish with the wicked antennae-like hooks growing out of its huge head — the fish they call rana pescatrice in Western Italy and rospo on the Adriatic , and angler or monk fish in England . |
| 15 | The mathematicians guarantee that all will be well provided we restrict ourselves to operators which satisfy the condition which they call being hermitean . |
| 16 | You stand on the flat tray which they call a seat , take the weight on your arms on the sides of the cockpit and lower your feet into the nose cone . |
| 17 | They have recently exhibited paintings which they call Cubist paintings . |
| 18 | Below is an advertisement from the Indian firm , Bhilwara , which manufactures underpants ( which they call wearunders ) under license from France . |
| 19 | Indeed , HyperCard has created such interest that IBM swiftly produced their own HyperCard lookalike which they call LinkWay . |
| 20 | Now , strangely , Spalding have come up with a ball which measures 1.717 but which they call simply a 1.72 — the legal requirement regarding size , as stipulated in Clause ( b ) of Appendix III of the Rules of Golf , being only that the diameter of the ball shall be not less than 1.680 inches ( 42.67mm ) . |
| 21 | Quarterly meetings which they call them that was held in er the Odd Fellows Hall in Forest Road and I think it was the March January February March quarterly meeting that they er the ballot was taken for delegates for the conference . |
| 22 | I mean if you ask what happens when electrons drop down from one orbit to another inside the atom , the emit light , which is the thing we are familiar with , but erm physicists tend to think of this as particles which they call photons . |
| 23 | Did I tell you they call him Juan now ? |
| 24 | But when Brian goes to see them he goes with his first wife , who they call Granny . |
| 25 | I pay through my wages , twenty P a week for something they call Water Aid . |
| 26 | ‘ Why , Mr. Bonanza , and Rico , and the one they call Lou . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ You must be the one they call Mait . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ That one they call Goll the Gorm , ’ nodded Snodgrass . |
| 29 | the younger one they call tiny because he was the yo smaller than his brother but the other one you see and we did enormous business , especially during the war . |
| 30 | Yes , the one they call smelly . |