Example sentences of "[noun pl] called [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , the Stock Exchange has set up a new market in company equities called the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) . |
| 2 | It 's collected into books called The Great Lovers ' Valentine World Anthology of Love Poetry or whatever . |
| 3 | As a result , we get books called The British System of Government or , more fashionably , The British Political System , where politics is added to institutions . |
| 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 | Under this procedure , each summer a committee of officials called the Public Expenditure Scrutiny Committee ( PESC ) prepares a report forecasting public expenditure over the following five years . |
| 6 | On June 16 left-wing unions representing an estimated 15,000,000 workers called a one-day general strike , the first since November 1991 [ see p. 38682 ] , to protest against the proposed closure of some public-sector operations . |
| 7 | There were bookshelves along one wall , with titles ranging from John Keegan 's Six Armies in Normandy and Richard Holmes 's Firing Line , which I 'd read , to anonymous pulp volumes called A Social History of the Hand Grenade or similar , which I 'd no intention of reading . |
| 8 | Some slight insight into early local agricultural practices may be obtained from such things as Anglo-Saxon charters , details of which have been published ( from 1961 onwards ) in a series of volumes called The Early Charters of … , and commentaries on land usage such as in The Domesday Geography of … , each volume of which deals with a particular region . |
| 9 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 10 | This is a giant step forward from the position two years ago when 67 clubs called a special general meeting to save the ISA from extinction . |
| 11 | The NHL Players ' Association , who went on strike April 1 , have rejected what team owners called a final offer . |
| 12 | There are two parts to Egypt , the desert and the river , what the ancient Egyptians called the Red Land and the Black Land . |
| 13 | In April 1984 the National Union of Mineworkers called a national strike against pit closures , including that of the lately closed pit at Cortonwood in south Yorkshire , and in favour of a vastly increased basic wage . |
| 14 | Seconds later the muezzin of a hundred Delhi mosques called the Faithful to prayer with a loud cry of ‘ Allaaaaah hu-Akbar ! ’ |
| 15 | We also now have evidence for several other black holes in systems like Cygnus X-1 in our galaxy and in two neighboring galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Yusuf caused the heads of the slain to be cut off and piled in heaps , from the top of which his muezzins called the faithful to prayer . |
| 17 | MacCulloch ( 1819 ) , and later , Murchison and Geikie ( 1861 ) , provided the first accounts of the geology of Lewis and Harris and the other islands which constitute the north east-south west chain of islands called the Outer Hebrides , which lies some 70 km west of the northern Scottish mainland . |
| 18 | Constituting themselves as a Council of Action , the leaders called a Special Conference of labour movement organizations for August 13th , at which decisions would be taken to ‘ instruct their members to ‘ down tools ’ … ’ . |
| 19 | Suragai 's second wife was a N'pani , tiny , beautiful , regal , whom men called the Golden Lotus . |
| 20 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 21 | Mrs Flaherty was what the nans called the Wrong Element . |
| 22 | The trade union federations called a general strike for 13 May to protest at government repression . |
| 23 | In Denmark , Sweden and Norway the trade unions work together in similarly long-established federations called the National Organisations ( Landsorganisationen , or LO ) which exist not only for manual employees but with separate confederations for white-collar and professional workers . |
| 24 | Nearly forty years ago the great historian and wise commentator on contemporary events , E. H. Carr , published a series of broadcast talks called The New Society ( long since out of print ) . |
| 25 | There is also a unit of Ministry of Defence civilian intelligence specialists called the British Services Security Organisation ( Germany ) or BSSO . |
| 26 | The Social Democrats called a general strike in protest ( denounced by the leadership of the Petrograd Soviet as mob rule ) , which the Russian Governor General banned , promising to put down all disorders by force . |
| 27 | So that 's what his friends and/or employees called the unpleasant Mr. Preston . |
| 28 | The other related campaign in which Mrs Whitehouse was involved at this time — and more centrally than in the OZ case — was the prosecution brought against the publisher of a book of advice for schoolchildren called The Little Red Schoolbook . |