Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] called a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a rule is called a weighted pattern . |
| 2 | A force which , as in this case , varies across a body is called a differential force , and a differential gravitational force is called a tidal force . |
| 3 | The resulting picture on the monitor is called a false-colour composite image . |
| 4 | It is often fortuitous whether a new institution is called a ‘ court ’ or a ‘ tribunal . ’ |
| 5 | Our rental car was called a Ford Escort , but you could have fooled me ; somebody had smoothed off all the corners . |
| 6 | The internal representation of a skill is called a schema . |
| 7 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 8 | The Open University degree is called a BA ( Bachelor of Arts ) irrespective of whether science or arts courses are included . |
| 9 | Understandably , this form of circuit is called a bridge rectifier . |
| 10 | The path taken by the stimulus is called a reflex arc . |
| 11 | A length of DNA bearing the information for an unbroken sequence of manufacture is called a gene . |
| 12 | If the consultant withdraws and the residents come under the care of a general practitioner , who might from time to time call in a psychiatrist , the home is called a nursing home in the community . |
| 13 | His vehicle was called a taxi , but Virginia had privately questioned whether a bright orange mini-van , lined with fake tiger fur and blaring non-stop earsplitting calypso music , could rightfully claim that title . |
| 14 | Their act was called A Fantasy in Black and White . |
| 15 | This particular sort is called a Boltzmann machine . |
| 16 | A group of this sort is called a taxon , and the study of this aspect of biology is called taxonomy . |
| 17 | The training place is called a ‘ dojang ’ . |
| 18 | As a matter of strict terminology , this right is called a ‘ lien ’ if property has passed to the buyer and a ‘ right of retention ’ if property is still with the seller , section 39(2) . |
| 19 | This right is called a " lien " . |
| 20 | If e = √2 the asymptotes are at right angles and the curve is called a rectangular hyperbola . |
| 21 | In the latter case the test apparatus is called a torsion pendulum and is usually of inverted type , having a counterpoise to remove end loads from the specimen and to test the Biot correction . |
| 22 | The pupa of a butter-fly is called a chrysalis . |
| 23 | In fibre-optic cables each letter or part of a sound is called a ‘ pulse ’ . |
| 24 | This was too wide a loophole for the tax planners : no wonder inheritance tax is called a voluntary tax . |
| 25 | This process is called a Proving of the remedy and strict criteria are laid down in order to ensure that the true action of the remedy is brought out and not any interferences from other sources . |
| 26 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 27 | A force which , as in this case , varies across a body is called a differential force , and a differential gravitational force is called a tidal force . |
| 28 | Menzel was called a pornographer , Forman a Zionist and , later , to celebrate the first anniversary of the invasion , a book was published by a Stalinist hack called They Did Not Pass . |
| 29 | Such a tree is called a binary tree , and of course its branching ratio is 2 . |
| 30 | 8 This quadrilateral is called a rhombus . |