Example sentences of "[be] call the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That does n't satisfy campaigners who fear the development of what they 're calling the M418 will bring increased traffic and more — this is a site bought by Esso to build what the protestors fear will be a motorway service station . |
| 2 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
| 3 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
| 4 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 5 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 6 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
| 7 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
| 8 | The period between 1939 to 1949 has been called the most productive and significant period in Canadian letters to date , which matches the ‘ 10 Lost Years ’ of the post-Depression period exactly . |
| 9 | Enoch Powell , who although no longer a Tory MP was closely listened to on the Conservative side , recalled that Margaret Thatcher had been called the ‘ Iron Lady ’ and rather liked the description . |
| 10 | Chunnel cynics think the high profile of the rabies defences is meant to draw attention away from the real hazards of what 's been called the longest crematorium in the world |
| 11 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 12 | I 'm thinking she should o ’ been called the Girl from County Tyrone , as that 's where she 's from in reality . |
| 13 | It has been called the ‘ British Problem ’ , brought into being by a combination of renewed English ambition and , for the first time , a new attitude among at least some of the Scots to their southern neighbour . |
| 14 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 15 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 16 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 17 | Members of the Wedgwood family had been master potters here since the seventeenth century , and Burslem has been called the ‘ Mother of the Potteries ’ . |
| 18 | Those principles could well be applied to theology , which has been called the queen of the sciences . |
| 19 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 20 | In the context of the debate on continuation schools it can best be understood through an examination of two of its principal features , namely , political stability , which of necessity included social harmony , and what has been called the ‘ civic ideal ’ , which meant service to the community . |
| 21 | History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene . |
| 22 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 23 | Tyner ( b. 1938 ) , another original and previously precocious American talent , was one fourth of what has been called the ‘ most influential quartet in jazz history ’ — namely John Coltrane of 1960–65 ( Coltrane , Tyner , Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones ) . |
| 24 | The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos . |
| 25 | The effective transaction of communicative business requires the parties concerned to enter into a sort of social contract involving adherence to what has been called the ‘ Cooperative Principle ’ ( see Grice 1975 ) . |
| 26 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
| 27 | This head of claim has been called the ‘ walk away ’ category . |
| 28 | In the last couple of decades what 's been called the ‘ human potential ’ movement has gathered impetus . |
| 29 | Luke has been called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit . |
| 30 | Next to Howard Hodgson , who has been called the tycoon of funeral directors . |