Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then one day he chanced upon an ad in the Evening Standard inviting aspirant comics for a new venture above a Soho strip club called the Comedy Store . |
| 2 | Many places known to have links with the old religion have ‘ devil ’ names , such as the rock outcrop called the Devil 's Pulpit at Tealby , Lincolnshire . |
| 3 | This sub division , the cell-mediated immune response , is hampered by a lack of a certain type of white blood cell called the T-cell . |
| 4 | Participants in the rally , held by a coalition of opposition movements called the National Salvation Front , waved red Soviet and Czarist flags as speakers accused Yeltsin and his administration of destroying the former Soviet Union and Russia . |
| 5 | A small opposition group called the Japan New Party was rising quickly in the polls by promising freshness and honesty . |
| 6 | Here , for example , is how the American journalist I. F. Stone describes the last hours of his voyage to Haifa , aboard a Turkish refugee ship called the Akbel , a listing hulk carrying hundreds of concentration camp survivors on their journey to Palestine . |
| 7 | Archivist reads : I give to Henry my eldest son my broad loom in the shop with my rapier and dagger and a physic book called the Breviary of Health . |
| 8 | These protectionist measures , seriously disrupting Yugoslavia 's internal common market , had been adopted by the Serbian Assembly on Oct. 23 , in response to what Serbian Premier Stanko Radmilovic called the " destructive policies " of Markovic 's government . |
| 9 | A logging industry representative called the proposed listing part of an overall strategy by environmentalists to use the Endangered Species Act " as a first strike weapon against the northwest " . |
| 10 | The Service has also published a comprehensive guide to project design and support proposal preparation called the Proposal Writing Workshop . |
| 11 | And his lawyers are pointing to a multi-national agreement on child abduction called the Hague Convention . |
| 12 | The hotel has a popular cellar dance bar called the Rustik Stuberl , which plays a mixture of live and disco music every evening from mid-June to the end of the season . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Lancaster rightly said that what the Home Secretary called the fast-track applicant will go not to a tribunal but to an adjudicator with no new evidence . |
| 14 | She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub . |
| 15 | And then of course they 've got this soldering iron type thing called the diathermy cautery device that seals up the blood vessels and this is being stabbed into her . |
| 16 | There is also a unit of Ministry of Defence civilian intelligence specialists called the British Services Security Organisation ( Germany ) or BSSO . |
| 17 | It was not until the Home Office called the tribunal chairmen together to clarify the guidelines that the ratio of Bs to Cs began to fall . |
| 18 | There is also a basement disco called the Stanton Bar . |
| 19 | The contract with Blue Rondo , and Virgin 's success in another auction for the signature of a limpid guitar group called the Pale Fountains , brought accusations within the industry that Virgin were guilty of ‘ chequebook signing ’ — paying prices that made life more expensive for everyone . |
| 20 | It includes a high availability array system for clustered environments , resource and storage management facilities , a graphical user interface called the Visual System Manager , Fairshare — a control and allocation facility for workload prioritising , network queuing , RxFS — a reliant file system , and C2 security functions . |
| 21 | It includes a graphical user interface called the Itasca Active Data Editor ( ADE ) , which , the company claims , makes it easy for users to create , edit and browse data . |
| 22 | A five mile forest route called the Phoenix Trail has been opened in Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk . |
| 23 | Bond Knitting Systems , the innovative craft company that caters for creative people of all ages , has introduced a completely new device into their range of needlecraft products called the BOND Cord Maker . |
| 24 | An anthology of her nature articles called The Peverel Papers was published in 1986 . |
| 25 | The film director is pursuing the style of his earlier films , about the Vietnam war and about a pop group called the Doors . |
| 26 | It 's hard to believe that the man who used to play the bass in a sullen and studenty pop group called The Housemartins is the creator of this year 's most significant number one single , but the success of ‘ Dub Be Good To Me ’ is a sing that things have truly changed for the better . |
| 27 | In January 1988 a signed partnership between Education and the Business community called the Sheffield Contract was brought into existence . |
| 28 | The president of the transport authority called the buses ‘ junk ’ . |
| 29 | The 68,000-member Rail , Maritime and Transport Union called the strike after British Rail refused to give a pledge that there will be no compulsory redundancies . |
| 30 | Adobe claims to have solved this problem with a Postscript-based file format called the Portable Document Format ( PDF ) . |