Example sentences of "which he called " in BNC.

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1 In 1971 he was asked to organise , at the Tate Gallery , an exhibition which he called The Essential Cubism .
2 Then he told me about chaology , which he called the new buzz thing .
3 Miss Geyer writes : ‘ The new thing in history that Castro did was to destroy the Communist Party and create his own Fidelista Party , which he called Communist in order to stand up against the United States and to gain backing and to borrow power from the Soviet Union ’ .
4 Queensland author Neil Phillipson recalled the incident in his 1974 biography Man of Iron , which he called a tribute to a ‘ living legend ’ .
5 I have been asked by my chief to ask you to let me have for him without further delay , the short note which he called ‘ on what you would advise should be done to concentrate and coordinate the work you are doing ’ .
6 John was full of invention , always making up steps and sequences which he called by odd names : for instance a stamping step he called ‘ Sherman tanks ’ , which he devised for the zephyrs in Primavera and used again for the unicorns in Harlequin in April .
7 Each year of the war he divided into two , which he called summer and winter , respectively .
8 He showed that it was possible , starting with a uniform concentration of chemicals which interacted with each other , for the system to develop differences in the concentration of the chemicals , which he called morphogens , such that there would be chemical waves with peaks and troughs of concentration of the morphogens .
9 By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind .
10 This tiny essay , which he called La Bilancetta , is enchanting .
11 On his estate he built a mansion with a double-domed roof , which he called Henrietta Villa .
12 John Piper retired with his family to a small country property at Bathurst , New South Wales , which he called Alloway Bank in remembrance of his Ayrshire roots .
13 He was helped by Josef Heinsch , who found further alignments , particularly some oriented six degrees north or south of due east , which he called a ‘ solar year line ’ , linking a ‘ holy hill ’ in the west , dedicated to the moon , with a solar site in the east .
14 Hippocrates was aware of this energy , which he called ‘ Vis Medicatrix Naturae ’ ( The Healing Power of Nature ) , and it was also known to the medieval alchemists as ‘ munia ’ — the Vital Fluid .
15 In 1860 , Baron Karl von Reichenbach ( the discoverer of creosote ) published the results of numerous experiments with sensitives using techniques which enabled them to sense an energy which he called ‘ the odic force ’ , ‘ od ’ or ‘ odyle ’ .
16 By analysing distances in stone circles , the surveyor Alexander Thorn found a unit of measure , of some 2.72ft , which he called the ‘ Megalithic Yard ’ .
17 I once asked Alec Motyer , who was the wise and saintly principal of my theological college , how to hear the guidance of God , and he showed me some verses from Isaiah 50:4 , 5 which he called a deep place of guidance in the Bible :
18 Hahnemann was the first to start modifying what he himself had enunciated and towards the end of his life he developed a further series of dilutions which he called the LM potencies , in which the material was diluted 1 in 50,000 at each step , rather than the more usual 1 in 10 or 1 in 100 dilution steps .
19 However , as he gained experience with his new system of therapeutics , he realized that inherited tendencies lay at the root of many chronic health problems and he developed a further class of remedies , which he called nosodes , to counteract these inherited traits .
20 Ted Fleming , a founder of the Great Ouse Kite Flyers , centred on the river of that name , developed his concept of a super-stable Delta which he called a ‘ Double Ram Delta ’ .
21 He brought his wife and children over and they settled into the fine house which he called Riverstown .
22 Sherman ( 1981 ) has developed a useful alternative theory which he called the ‘ Social Breakdown Syndrome ’ , which involves a more comprehensive explanation than those which focus entirely upon individual pathology .
23 This led him to write a book which he called A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying , Shewing the Unreasonableness of Prescribing to Other Men 's Faith and the Iniquity of Persecuting Different Opinions .
24 He has approached it as an example of a much more general position in the debate about the possibilities of knowledge which he called ‘ historicism ’ characterized by a presumption about the nature of history :
25 And on the last day he led the girl he loved to a shack he had built behind their tiny house and which he called his studio .
26 If one accepts ( and not everyone does : there are some vocal Soviet opponents of the idea ) the theory of continental drift propounded by Alfred Wegener , then the present configuration of the planet derives from the break-up of a single super-continent which he called Pangea , which comprised two lesser continents called Gondwanaland and Laurasia , and a shallow marginal sea named the Tethys .
27 One species of law , which he called ‘ restitutive ’ , was concerned essentially with restoring social harmony ; the other , its opposite , was repressive penal law , inherently punitive and vengeful .
28 After a short association with Pemberton Billing 's Silver Badge Party of ex-Servicemen , Beamish quarrelled with him and developed his own organization , which he called the Britons Society .
29 He blamed the ‘ unceasing hunger for materials things ’ for many of the problems that exist , and stressed that wholeness and interdependence are vital elements in the healing process , which he called ‘ circles of healing ’ .
30 From the earliest years of his career private collectors in Germany , France , the Netherlands and Russia were keen to acquire Kandinsky 's paintings in gouache and tempera on cardboard which he called ‘ coloured drawings ’ .
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