Example sentences of "[is] called [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This is called a lateral eruption .
2 A decision problem in which I receives and II receives - , if I plays i and II plays j , is called a two-person zero-sum game ( ZSG — ‘ zero sum ’ because the sum of the receipts of the two players is zero ) .
3 ‘ He comes from what in England is called a good family .
4 It is called A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics ( 1980 ) .
5 Transformational-generative grammar ( T-grammar ) A grammar in which transformations are included among the rules , by which the set of grammatical items are specified , is called a transformational-generative , transformation or T-G grammar .
6 It says that judges should follow whichever method of deciding cases will produce what they believe to be the best community for the future , and though some pragmatic lawyers would think this means a richer or happier or more powerful community , others would choose a community with fewer incidents of injustice , with a better cultural tradition and what is called a higher quality of life .
7 The resulting picture on the monitor is called a false-colour composite image .
8 Such a rule is called a weighted pattern .
9 A correlation between velocities measured at both different positions and different instants is called a space-time correlation .
10 Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual .
11 A typical form is shown in Figure 6.6 ( d ) , and you can see that there are several concentric rims , in which case it is called a multiringed basin .
12 The path taken by the stimulus is called a reflex arc .
13 An embayment of oceanic crust not consumed before the boundary becomes ‘ locked ’ is called a remnant-ocean basin .
14 The prominent syllable is called a stressed syllable .
15 The success of the unification of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces led to a number of attempts to combine these two forces with the strong nuclear force into what is called a grand unified theory ( or GUT ) .
16 This is called a cloud-point curve .
17 A membrane which allows solvent particles but not solute particles to pass through it is called a semi-permeable membrane .
18 There are any number of razor-sharp splinters and jagged , irregular surfaces , of course , but some fragments usually show what is called a conchoidal fracture : the surface is fairly smooth , but ridged with a number of concentric corrugations , centred on the point of impact of the hammer , and the effect produced is somewhat reminiscent of the appearance of the ridges on a cockle shell .
19 My worst dive was when on descending a sudden shock of cold water hit my tooth sending a shock wave up my nerve the nerve ran through a sinus causing extreme pain this is called a dental trauma I had to abandon the dive immediately .
20 The approximating function , drawn dashed in the figure , is called a Piecewise-Linear ( PWL ) approximation and we will now define rigorously .
21 Blast furnace gas is what is called a low-grade fuel .
22 If a particular dimension ( usually left to right or up to down ) indicates a time scale as well as sequence this is called a time-line diagram .
23 A force which , as in this case , varies across a body is called a differential force , and a differential gravitational force is called a tidal force .
24 Resolving the gravitational force due to the star tangential to OA gives zero for A , while for B the force has a component towards A. Therefore there is a relative acceleration between A and B given by which is independent of the masses of A and B. Such an acceleration is called a differential or tidal acceleration ; it is unaffected by the choice of reference frame .
25 6 The shape below is called a triangular prism .
26 It is called a reverse premium .
27 This is called a Preferred Point Geometry .
28 This is called a labelled graph .
29 The region from which it is not possible to escape is called a black hole , and its boundary is called the event horizon .
30 The region would become what is called a black hole .
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