Example sentences of "have be called a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press .
2 Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul .
3 The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) .
4 For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving .
5 Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants .
6 The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna .
7 However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France .
8 ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do .
9 Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin .
10 Furious Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson argued it should have been called an incomplete pass and made his point forcibly after the Redskins ' 20-17 victory .
11 She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse .
12 He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife .
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