Example sentences of "[adv] called a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am constantly called a fool , because I have not that literary indigestion which throws up what it feeds on , every week or so . ’ |
| 2 | Another idea is that there should be an official — perhaps called a Director of Civil Proceedings — who would have the power to initiate court proceedings if this was in the public interest and to intervene in proceedings initiated by others to represent the public interest . |
| 3 | Now what you 're going to receive this afternoon , is what is pretentiously called a time management system . |
| 4 | Pattie finally called a halt to the relationship 18 months later when Alan , drunk and angry , knocked over the baby in an attempt to attack Pattie . |
| 5 | The magnet array is thus called a wiggler or an undulator . |
| 6 | Apollinaire has been aptly called a company promoter of the avant-garde , responsible , as it were , for the successful flotations in Paris of Cubism and futurism . |
| 7 | Will my right hon. Friend explain to a simple fellow like me why it is considered sensible to return to a system of socialist taxation based on the capital value of an asset that produces no income and that is unrelated to the services for which the occupant is paying and to the income of the occupant , this asset being normally called a home ? |
| 8 | A cold drying wind expressively called a yerdzook dried out stacks that were on the wet side . |
| 9 | Employers had locked out employees on Feb. 1 for refusing to handle inter-bank payments , and the union formally called a strike two weeks later . |
| 10 | In the midst of all this , Stirling calmly called a halt so that he could give orders for further targets . |
| 11 | I wondered why Americans always called a spade a manually powered entrenching instrument . |
| 12 | The slit was euphemistically called a squeeze . |
| 13 | Although the prison is euphemistically called a rehabilitation centre , the women staff workers are known to arrange appointments for the prostitutes with the male guards in exchange for a small return and there is no attempt to train the women to help them find some other form of employment when they are freed . |
| 14 | Erm usually called a heptagon . |
| 15 | This is usually called a care plan , which may be discussed informally , or at a special meeting . |
| 16 | ( Left ) Although usually called a panther , this large cat is really a leopard in black or ‘ melanistic ’ phase . |
| 17 | That is not what unions , under the present dispensation , are about ; and that is why , after three years of wage restraint under the compulsion of economic crisis , there was in 1979 what the Financial Times properly called a return to normality , with all its faults . |
| 18 | So Carol ran into the hall and fetched the broom — which her mummy said was properly called a besom , and which she had used as the witch 's broom in the play . |
| 19 | He did not think that a state in which a rich majority governed could be properly called a democracy : " suppose a total of one thousand three hundred ; one thousand of these are rich , they give no share in government to the three hundred poor , who also are free men and in other respects like them ; no one would say that these thirteen hundred lived under a democracy . " |
| 20 | The jungle birds fell silent in the growing heat , and Jacques Devraux eventually called a halt and distributed flasks of cold tea that had been carried in satchels by the Moi bearers . |
| 21 | It 's the sort of establishment formerly called a List D school , a place for youngsters who have , for example , committed offences or were beyond parental control . |
| 22 | Each FOND refers to the members of a family that are present within a file , be it the System or a Font/DA Mover file — also called a Suitcase . |
| 23 | Here a bath/basin spanner ( also called a crowsfoot spanner ) is needed — it comes in two sizes . |
| 24 | Mr Barry , who is white , also called a bridge linking northern Virginia with the largely black District of Columbia as the ‘ Soul Brothers ’ Causeway , ’ the newspaper said . |
| 25 | This is also called a time spread , a horizontal spread , an intermonth spread , an interdelivery spread or a calendar spread . |
| 26 | A substitution drill consists of a pattern sentence , also called a frame , which is a meaningful phrase or clause that stays the same , and a list of substitution items . |
| 27 | The basic conventions for the four most common punctuation marks are : The FULL STOP ( also called a PERIOD or FULL POINT ) Put a full stop ( . ) |
| 28 | Lateral is the word given to a shoot , also called a side-shoot , that arises sideways from a leader . |
| 29 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |
| 30 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |