Example sentences of "[pron] be [adv] call [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a massive expansion of public housing ( which was even called council housing ) ; responsibility for personal social services ( such as children 's welfare and provision for the old ) grew dramatically ; the growth of education budgets and responsibility for ( almost ) universal primary and secondary education gave local education authorities very high profiles in the lives of ordinary people ; and the introduction of a nationally organized town and country planning system suggested a major new influence over development . |
| 2 | They are apparently called Chesapeake Bay Retrievers although |
| 3 | It is often called Ramsey pricing , after Frank Ramsey who first flamed this ( or , rather , a similar ) problem in 1928 . |
| 4 | This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia — it is sometimes called sound symbolism : there is no question of auditory resemblance . |
| 5 | Quantum Software Systems Ltd , the 10-year-old Unix-like Kanata , Ontario firm has changed its name to mirror its software : it is now called QNX Software Systems Ltd . |
| 6 | Then , deciding boldly not to enter another beguiling-looking passage which , had he done so , would have wasted very many miles and many days ( it is now called Canal Jeronimo , and leads into an immense maze of lakes and passageways ) , he sailed directly north-west , up the Paso Largo and finally into the Paso del Mar . |
| 7 | Malaria was known to be associated with marshes : it was often called marsh fever , but the connection was not understood until certain mosquitoes were recognized as carriers of the disease and as alternative hosts of plasmodia . |
| 8 | The same expenditure data are also plotted on Figure 1b against what is here called Research Orientation Ranking , that is the proportion of postgraduate research on ‘ Other Physical Sciences ’ in the CVCP Report . |
| 9 | On the Monday afternoon , Flora Macdonald 's husband conducted the travellers to his boat , and took them across Loch Snizort Beag , out a little into Loch Snizort , around what is now called Lyndale Point and into Loch Grishinish , or Greshornish . |
| 10 | If the decision were in favour of subsidized family day care — developing what is now called child minding-this would also require a substantial financial and training commitment but be less costly in terms of bricks and mortar . |
| 11 | Much later in the war Stoddard 's factory did have a major fire that destroyed much of what was then called Patrick Bank . |