Example sentences of "[adj] was called the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum . |
3 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
4 | This was called the ‘ Cuban Crisis ’ and could have meant the start of World War Three . |
5 | The first was called The Golden Grove — or a Manual of Daily Prayers and Litanies . |
6 | that was called the maiden sheaf . |
7 | That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the . |
8 | 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 . |