Example sentences of "[prep] be called [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She entered into the shame of bearing God 's Son and even ran the risk of being called a loose woman . |
| 2 | She was a genuine radical , not ashamed of being called a socialist , who would never , but never , have said yes to the offer of an honour . |
| 3 | YOU long to shower gifts on everyone and hate the thought of being called a Scrooge . |
| 4 | Ironically , one graduate of the 1980s remarks , in the same publication , that she finds the idea of being called an embroiderer quite amusing because it conjures up images of the edges of tablecloths ’ . |
| 5 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 6 | In America , Roth has to live with being called the new Gary Oldman . |
| 7 | But 15 months after his last appearance in the ring he still takes pride in being called a boxer . |
| 8 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 9 | This one is expected to be called A Vision Of The Earth . |
| 10 | This used to be called a tight fiscal policy . |
| 11 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 12 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
| 13 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
| 14 | Just what does something have to be for it to be called a god ? |
| 15 | ‘ Oh ’ , she says , ‘ I 'm not going to be called a granny . ’ |
| 16 | Wide boy Gary chats up Sue but she does n't want to be called a slut . |
| 17 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 18 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 19 | That Commandos and other Special Forces of World War II were superb light infantry , is a fact all too often forgotten in the fashion of the 1970s when every political cut-throat wants to be called a ‘ commando ’ . |
| 20 | He described her as unfit to be called a Catholic and certainly unfit for motherhood . |
| 21 | Perhaps because I was hot-tempered at times , I became what used to be called a ‘ natural ’ as a boxer . |
| 22 | You are what used to be called a White Russian . ’ |
| 23 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |
| 24 | But if this is to be called a rational method , it is so , from Stevenson 's point of view , mainly because it consists in letting one 's attitudes be moulded by rational factual beliefs . |
| 25 | This is a property still small and smiling enough to be called a ‘ home ’ rather than a hotel , with an intimate and friendly atmosphere . |
| 26 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 27 | And since the master-manufacturer also financed the provision of land , buildings , machinery and equipment he was — or had been — also what would come to be called a capitalist . |
| 28 | Prayer rugs , for example , are never referred to as carpets , and anything employing a hunting design would ten to be called a hunting carpet rather than a hunting rug . |
| 29 | The more organized the body of knowledge appears to be , the more distinct its academic identity , and the more likely it is to be called a ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 30 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |