Example sentences of "[adv] called a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sometimes wrongly called a second-order transition but we shall show below that this is an incorrect use of language . |
| 2 | Fielding , Amis once remarked , showed that fiction can uphold a moral seriousness ‘ without evangelical puffing and blowing ’ ; his Take a Girl Like You ( 1960 ) has been aptly called a modernised replay of Richardson 's Pamela ; and when asked by a journalist which of the great novelists of the past he felt the closest affinity with , he replied reverently : ‘ With Fielding , though it seems a gross impertinence … ’ . |
| 3 | But it 's just , just called a many-one . |
| 4 | The spiteful Head Girl had deliberately called a sudden rehearsal . |
| 5 | Like Althusser , Foucault was once called a structuralist , but although he shows great interest in structures ( including the structures of thought and of ‘ discourse ’ in different ages ) he differs significantly from both Althusser and other struc-turalists , often being described consequently as ‘ post-structuralist ’ — and ‘ post-Marxist ’ and ‘ post-modernist ’ as well . |
| 6 | The first appearance a child would make after being charged would be before a youth court , formerly called a juvenile court . |
| 7 | Nationalists had also called a one-day general strike for Oct. 1 against the proposed new union treaty , but only in the West Ukraine did this attract anything more than patchy support . |
| 8 | Compaoré had also called a round table meeting of 24 political parties on June 11 , but representatives of 13 of them walked out , protesting that Compaoré viewed the meeting as consultative rather than as a sovereign decision-making body . |
| 9 | Predicating a theme involves using an it-structure ( also called a cleft structure ) to place an element near the beginning of the clause , as in It was the book that received a great deal of publicity in China , it was a great deal of publicity that the book received in China , or It was in China that the book received a great deal of publicity . |
| 10 | In spite of this , the words ‘ buyer beware ’ still carry a very real warning in one type of purchase and that is what is colloquially called a private sale . |
| 11 | For example , in Cureton 's analysis of iambic pentameter in Chapter 5 , all lines metrically begin weak-strong-weak , even those having what is traditionally called a reversed first foot . |
| 12 | The magistrates have now called a pre-sentence report -- and he 'll be summoned back to court for sentencing on November the Ninth . |
| 13 | D. Many merchants have seen the advantages of using the raw materials which are unloaded at a port — often called a trans-shipment point . |
| 14 | A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is often called a stoichiometric process Many ionic reactions produce quantitative yields . |
| 15 | He only went to church when he took church parade — he was what we then called a Regular — but he shed buckets of tears when he heard the Last Post . |
| 16 | She successfully sought a venue for the meeting at the university and then called a phone-in Irish radio chat show to recruit support . |
| 17 | A is then called a proper subset of B. Thus we write unc according to the emphasis required . |
| 18 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 19 | If f : unc is 1-1 and onto B , f is sometimes called a 1-1 correspondence . |
| 20 | In the first , sometimes called a correlative approach , one can inject a radioactive precursor of protein or RNA synthesis into an animal , train it on a task , and ask if the amount of radioactivity in the protein or RNA has increased by comparison with that in appropriate control , ‘ non-learning ’ animals . |
| 21 | If the first derivative of the property-temperature curve is measured , a change in the vicinity of T g is found ; for this reason it is sometimes called a second-order transition . |
| 22 | In the early days of life the infant is sometimes called a new-born . |
| 23 | I regard the father 's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract , a promise in return for an act , a promise by the father to pay £1 per week in return for the mother 's looking after the child . |
| 24 | Given what has been said , further , a mental event is not necessarily what is sometimes called a whole mental state , which is to say all of a person 's consciousness at or for a time , but typically is a part of a whole mental state , a part which itself has parts . |
| 25 | The following day , the opposition again called a general strike and a rally which attracted a crowd independently estimated at 300,000 . |
| 26 | The scheme , forbiddingly called a fixed assured note , will take a minimum £5,000 and guarantees to provide people with the full increase in share prices over the next five years as measured by the FTSE100 index . |
| 27 | It 's actually called a perfect octave but they never worry about the perfect when you 're talking about an octave . |
| 28 | But it is actually called a perfect octave as well . |
| 29 | ‘ Over my dead body ’ , said Mr Robshaw , and hurriedly called a public meeting . |