Example sentences of "[is] [adv] called [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The researches of Frances Yates into the relationship between science and what is loosely called magic at the end of the 16th century are enlightening . |
| 2 | I do n't actually really believe at the end of the day that that is something you that is rightly called business . |
| 3 | Such an environment of interconnected multimedia elements is generally called hypermedia to distinguish it from hypertext . |
| 4 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 5 | This mere Englishness is usually called Romanticism by those who do not know Anglo-Saxon . |
| 6 | This was the new concern of European states with other parts of the world which is usually called imperialism , a concern which had meant almost nothing to Bismarck . |
| 7 | Ever since , the hall porter is always called Ramsbum . |
| 8 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 9 | Most of it is covered in water but it 's still called Earth . |
| 10 | The capacity of the central nervous system to recover function is technically called neuroplasticity . |
| 11 | ‘ Popular culture is not what is technically called folklore , but the popular language of permanent historical rebellion . ’ |
| 12 | During the first half of 1782 , Wolfgang continued to work on Die Entführung , whose heroine , by coincidence , is also called Constanze . |
| 13 | This dust is sometimes called fines , and it is also called soil but this is a poor term because it implies an organic component , which is absent . |
| 14 | This is also called lattice energy . |
| 15 | D. Some people are the workers who actively make money , which is also called wealth or capital . |
| 16 | For example , nitrogen monoxide , NO , is also called nitrogen oxide . |
| 17 | Because of the interesting anti-microbial and anti-proliferative properties of this cytosolic protein , which is also called calprotectin , we decided to examine its distribution in macrophages and granulocytes of the normal human gut , focusing on ileal mucosa and Peyer 's patches . |
| 18 | So a big issue about whether how well we 're placed with regard to America and Japan and so on is how well placed are we to bring about this educational step , and I think we 're probably about as well placed as anybody else , certainly we have n't made some of the mistakes that other people have made , we have n't had a very big investment in what 's often called computer assisted instruction , which I think is rather limited . |
| 19 | In the mid-1980s , I was addicted for nearly a year to ‘ free-basing ’ cocaine , which is no different in any way from what is now called crack . |
| 20 | If the decision were in favour of subsidized family day care — developing what is now called child minding-this would also require a substantial financial and training commitment but be less costly in terms of bricks and mortar . |
| 21 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 22 | Cut glass was what is now called crystal , though it is nothing of the kind , and it has advantages apart from being elegant . |
| 23 | But collecting and analyzing written and spoken information on language — what is now called linguistics — is said to have started with Sir William Jones in Calcutta in 1786 . |
| 24 | What is now called democracy in the West would not satisfy some of those , past and present , who have had a different conception of it . |
| 25 | He struck on the underlying concept that is now called hypertext when he wrote : |
| 26 | Then , deciding boldly not to enter another beguiling-looking passage which , had he done so , would have wasted very many miles and many days ( it is now called Canal Jeronimo , and leads into an immense maze of lakes and passageways ) , he sailed directly north-west , up the Paso Largo and finally into the Paso del Mar . |
| 27 | This is often called charisma and it is the power of personality . |
| 28 | When I write of consciousness I shall mean what is often called self-consciousness , rather than awareness of sensations or perceptions . |
| 29 | Sucker top growth is often called briar in the case of roses , after the name by which the wild rose was known , and following the old practice of using rooted briar stems dug out of hedgerows for budding and grafting — at one time this was one of the chief occupations of gypsies , who would ‘ hawk ’ them by the bundle around less reputable nurseries . |
| 30 | Some writers on intonation claim that the intonation pattern starting at a fairly high pitch , with a gradual dropping down of pitch during the utterance , is the most basic , normal , ‘ unmarked ’ intonation pattern ; this movement is often called declination . |