Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way people use and perceive space , including their seating arrangements and conversational distance , reflects what Ardrey has called the territorial imperative — a tendency to stake out a personal space and protect it . |
| 2 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 3 | Peter Hennessy has called the old G and G ‘ the lost tribe of British public life ’ . |
| 4 | Some progress can , in these circumstances , be made to reduce what David Downes has called the ‘ depth of imprisonment ’ ( Downes 1988 ) . |
| 5 | The power resources of bureaucracies combine with what Wright has called the ‘ political incapacity of non-bureaucrats ’ ( 1978 , p. 225 ) — that is , the inability of political institutions to exercise the control and direction of bureaucracy which the classical liberal theory of the state presumes — so as to give bureaucracy a prominent role in policy-making . |
| 6 | Greenpeace International science representative Jeremy Leggett has called the agreement " full of wonderful rhetoric and pitifully short of substance given the breadth and magnitude of the threats we face in the Arctic " . |
| 7 | In Spain , what Henry Kamen has called the ‘ series of autos de fe which burnt out Protestantism ’ began at Valladolid in May 1559 , while in France , at exactly the same time , persecution of the Calvinists so much increased that Calvin 's greatest follower , Theodore Beza , began to question Calvin 's insistence on non-resistance to authority . |
| 8 | Alexander Wilson has called the latter the ‘ theatre of recorded entertainment ’ . |
| 9 | Darren has called the AA twice : once when the battery went flat and again when the distributor cap became soaked after the car was driven through flood water . |
| 10 | For five months , Marina has called the cellar home , ever since Serbian soldiers lobbed grenades which crashed through the roof and blew apart her parents ' flat . |
| 11 | Carl Lewis has called the 100 metres ‘ ten seconds going on ten years ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Izetbegovic has called the Muslim people to all-out war . |
| 13 | Our dealings with our fellow citizens in this public domain are based on what Martin Buber has called the ‘ technical relation ’ . |