Example sentences of "[verb] be call 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 | But I do n't like being called a funking animal by a load of nonces who know nothing about me . ’ |
| 9 | The region from which it is not possible to escape is called a black hole , and its boundary is called the event horizon . |
| 10 | Usually , a suitable algorithm is used to convert keys to addresses ; the file is then described as a randomized file , and the algorithm used is called a randomizing algorithm . |
| 11 | She dreaded being called a learned lady : her mother said that ‘ she was a living library ; but locked up , except to a chosen few . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Hope perceived this as acutely as anyone else ; he had experienced being called a black bastard , being physically abused , being spat at , being excluded . |
| 16 | And backs away , with what I believe is called a shiteating grin . |
| 17 | I head south after what I think 's called a hearty breakfast and an even heartier cough . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |