Example sentences of "sometimes called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emergency contraception sometimes called ‘ the morning after pill ’ may protect you against pregnancy if you have had sexual intercourse without contraception or if you think that the method you have used may not have worked — but it should never be used as a regular method of family planning . |
| 2 | As Lacan 's invocation of metonymy suggests , such formulations are evidently influenced by the semiotic model , sometimes called the linguistic or , later , the deconstructive , turn to difference . |
| 3 | ‘ Athleticism ’ , as it was sometimes called , was a kind of moral code or system of ideas . |
| 4 | The vane is sometimes called the ‘ finger ’ or ‘ flyboard ’ and it gave farmers an opportunity to display their individuality . |
| 5 | ‘ I HAVE received vague but disquieting information about the inaccessibility of the Willoughbys ’ old home , ’ wrote William Dutt in 1914 , who was keen to see Parham Old Hall ( or the Moat Hall as it is sometimes called ) , before nightfall . |
| 6 | Once the transition had occurred , some builders expanded on the square and rectangular theme and added wild , exuberant and curvaceous forms — this is sometimes called Baroque . |
| 7 | The Lake House ( sometimes called the Orangery ) which stands in the grounds of Frampton Court , was almost certainly designed by William Halfpenny or his son John , who lived near Bristol in the 1740s . |
| 8 | Sometimes called ‘ Sun Trap ’ houses , the idea behind them was to catch the sun at every angle . |
| 9 | Sometimes called the ‘ Jazz Modern ’ style , International Modern was a term coined in the United States to refer to the new architectural style of the twentieth century , which architects like Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius were creating before the First World War . |
| 10 | It is sometimes called the Danish Gorgonzola , although the veining is greenish in colour and the paste is very yellow . |
| 11 | Our cousins in the sea , as they are sometimes called , seem to us to have created a society far closer to human ideals of Utopia than anything we have managed to achieve on land , and their social behaviour and lifestyle embody many of the virtues and qualities we humans hold so dear . |
| 12 | But this theory , which is sometimes called ‘ the moral influence ’ theory , is considered to have a number of weaknesses that we should look at . |
| 13 | Yet nobody knew for certain who these moderates ( sometimes called ‘ pragmatists ’ ) were ; or , if they existed , how much influence they had . |
| 14 | It was Cubitt who noted that ‘ artistic knowledge and cultured tastes are not now confined to what are sometimes called the upper classes ’ and the German historian , Muthesius , saw that ‘ within Nonconformity , each individual layman 's romanticism has begun to show itself — as seen in the architectural achievements of the Congregationalists ’ . |
| 15 | In discussing how animals find their way about , I have drawn a distinction between cases ( for example , jumping spiders making detours ) in which what is stored in the brain is a set of rules to be followed — sometimes called an ‘ algorithm ’ — and others ( for example , rats finding a submerged platform ) in which the brain stores a representation of the world , or , if you prefer , in which the animal has some knowledge of what is the case . |
| 16 | In the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries the Forest administration was headed by a single official — the ‘ Chief Justice of all the royal forests of England ’ , or , as he was sometimes called , the ‘ Chief Forester of England ’ . |
| 17 | Multimedia is often associated with flexible software , sometimes called hypertext , which lets the user go off and browse in directions of his own choice in search of ill-defined information . |
| 18 | Britain at that time , like much of the European continent — including Italy — was ruled by strong personalities in small units , sometimes called ‘ Kingdoms ’ , and invasions from other countries sometimes led to settlement . |
| 19 | The Scottish bluebell ( Campanula rotundifolia ) is sometimes called ‘ the cuckoo 's hood ’ , a beautiful image for such an elegant flower . |
| 20 | Micraster is sometimes called the heart urchin , because of its distinctive shape . |
| 21 | In London itself GCHQ operated the Joint Technical Language Service ( JTLS ) , sometimes called the London Processing Group ( LPG ) . |
| 22 | For this reason detergents are sometimes called , erroneously , ‘ surfactants ’ which is a condensed version of ‘ surface active agents ’ . |
| 23 | Most skinhead girls , sometimes called rennes , would wear bennies , button-fly red tags , white socks and penny loafers or monkey boots . |
| 24 | Vulcanian eruptions sometimes form the first phases of a longer eruption , when the volcano is ‘ clearing its throat ’ for the real business , and as such , there may be no new magmatic material involved , and all the material that is showered up as ash to form the ‘ cauliflower cloud ’ may be merely old , cold , solid lava which was previously blocking up the throat ; if this is the case , the eruptions are sometimes called ultra-vulcanian . |
| 25 | This is sometimes called the centreboard . |
| 26 | Sometimes called a candidate specification , it states the essential attributes that you require and also the merely desirable ones . |
| 27 | Thus the second major influence on behaviour is the reward , or payoff , as it is sometimes called , for acting in a certain way . |
| 28 | There is a lethal or semi-lethal dwarfing factor in the breed , sometimes called the bulldog-calf syndrome , the genetics of which have been closely studied and which seems to be slightly different to the dwarfing factor sometimes seen in other cattle breeds . |
| 29 | Cheap eating-houses were sometimes called ‘ Slap-bangs ’ from the off-hand way in which food was served up to their customers . |
| 30 | Negativism ( sometimes called oppositional behaviour ) is an exaggerated form of resistance when a child becomes stubborn and ‘ contrary ’ , often doing quite the opposite of what the mother or father wishes . |