Example sentences of "was call the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The new school was called the Tiller Training School and Lyric Academy . |
| 32 | The BLR&DD 's involvement with user education goes back to the early 1970s when it was called the Office for Scientific and Technical Information ( OSTI ) but it was the BLR&DD 's establishment of the Review Committee of Education for Information Use in 1974 that marked its presence in the field . |
| 33 | Until now , the role of the brain regions associated with Alzheimer 's disease has been little understood ; they are part of what for years was called the ‘ substantia innominata ’ ( region without a name ) because it had no known purpose . |
| 34 | It was called the Electrophone . |
| 35 | It was called the Advanced Passenger Train . |
| 36 | Two years ago , NASA at the last minute reneged on a joint venture with ESA to send two satellites to the Sun in what was called the International Solar/Polar Mission . |
| 37 | Third term Thatcherism became grounded in the imaginary place that was called the inner city . |
| 38 | I suppose that I was influenced by the exploits of the great test pilots of the day , people like Peter Twiss , Neville Duke and John Derry , who were at the time just coming to grips with high-speed flight and what was called the ‘ sound-barrier ’ . |
| 39 | The greater light was , of course , the sun which , in early mythology , was considered masculine while the moon was feminine and in some cultures , she was called The Queen of Heaven . |
| 40 | The hotel we stayed at was called The Leningrad when we arrived , but before we 'd left it had changed to the St Petersburg . |
| 41 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 42 | For this reason , it was called the Golden Bough and was believed to cure diseases in humans and cattle . |
| 43 | The box was called the treasury and was simply a chest , shaped like a trumpet , into which people put their offerings . |
| 44 | The first was called The Golden Grove — or a Manual of Daily Prayers and Litanies . |
| 45 | There had been no Darkness in the stranger , and Hawk recalled that one of the spirit warriors who would stand with the One-Eyed White Girl in the last battle was called the Man Who Rides Alone . |
| 46 | ‘ It was called The Forum . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ It cost sop a packet and was called The Skin-Scorcher . |
| 48 | Through the window , not so very far away , he could see the big black secret wood that was called The Forest of Sin . |
| 49 | It was called the Psychological Club , but basically it was all centred around this one very strange guy who had interpreted Jung 's teachings in a very strange way . |
| 50 | The combined algorithm was called the Predictor-Corrector Algorithm ( PCA ) . |
| 51 | ( Though perhaps not quite so improbable : a hulk I once saw stranded in Port Stanley in the nearby Falkland Islands was called the Jhelum — and both Sutlej and Jhelum are names of rivers in the Punjab . |
| 52 | It was called The Benedict 's Bones . |
| 53 | My first band was called The Original Cosmic Egg and we just did Hawkwind and Sex Pistols covers . |
| 54 | The lone watchman might , just possibly , be wandering around with an oil-can in hand but more probably was immersed in one of the lurid magazines with which what was called the engine-room library was so liberally stocked . |
| 55 | In those early days what seemed newsworthy was what was called the movie ‘ fever ’ . |
| 56 | While at Edwards she was flown in tests designed to evaluate the potential of jets as drone aircraft and as such ‘ 633 was called the Reluctant Robot . |
| 57 | The skeleton was originally thought to be female and was called the ‘ Red Lady of Paviland ’ because the bones had been dyed with the red ochre of a ritual burial . |
| 58 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 59 | In early studies it was called the residual — as such , it had more direct meaning , being no more nor less than a bundle of factors which can not be quantified individually . |
| 60 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |