Example sentences of "[am/are] called [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
2 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
3 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
4 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
5 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
6 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
7 | K 1 and K 2 are called the principal curvatures of the surface at O. Their product is an invariant for the surface at O called the Gaussian curvature K ; thus |
8 | These levels are called the 10-year flood , the 50-year flood and the 100-year flood , respectively , and they are used by engineers and planners in the design of structures such as bridges and dams . |
9 | And that is the reason I think why we are called the dirty man of Europe . |
10 | These platforms stretching round the continents are called the continental shelf . |
11 | The forms are termed the deviatoric parts of the respective tensors , while are called the dilatational parts . |
12 | Interest has centred on the role of two small groups of cells , one on either side of the brain , that are called the suprachiasmatic nuclei ( SCN ) . |
13 | The new quantities introduced here are called the metric connections . |
14 | My Lord it is pleaded as being a matter of er common practice amongst solicitors in this kind of situation er for such advice to be given and my Lord er if you turn to the folio of their particulars erm which were given I think it 's the final book , what are called the voluntary further and better particulars which in fact were the final particulars er given towards the end of the bundle of documents . |