Example sentences of "call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So called tertiary prevention — paediatric surgery — can provide an almost 100% effective solution in at least another 25% of cases . |
2 | In 1982 , towards the end of Sir Peter Parker 's chairmanship , four business sectors were created : InterCity , Network South-East , Provincial ( now called Regional Railways ) and Freight . |
3 | Ah , right , I do n't , I think it 's now been called regional Christmas Day |
4 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |
5 | And considering two thirds of the Education Department 's activities take place behind Ethiopian lines — in what the EPLF calls semi-liberated areas — their achievements have been impressive . |
6 | There are some people erm it was Liz Hall and Siobahn Lloyd who wrote a book called Surviving Child Sex Abuse and er they reckon that the construct of sexuality is something that 's invented by adults . |
7 | Workers within a paradigm , whether it be Newtonian mechanics , wave optics , analytical chemistry or whatever , practise what Kuhn calls normal science . |
8 | The highest of these peaks , Wagagai ( 14,177ft/4321m ) , is in Ugandan territory and officially out of bounds , but our map showed the international boundary passing through the summit of the second highest peak ( just 20 metres lower than Wagagai ) , called Lower Elgon , so we decided to stay legal and aim for that instead . |
9 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
10 | You have what 's called parental responsibility . |
11 | Anything that the parent contributes to the offspring which promotes that offspring 's reproductive success is called parental investment . |
12 | There is a short Reynolds number range over which localized regions of turbulence neither spread nor decay ; the resulting features are called turbulent puffs and have a characteristic structure . |
13 | The new artificial pancreas has been developed by an American company called Biohybrid Technologies , and the Harvard University Medical School . |
14 | Mike Stout , the band 's sound engineer , also ran a small publishing service for bands called Cubic Music and the band released the single through Cubic . |
15 | ( Word calls hanging paragraphs ‘ hanging indents ’ ) . |
16 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
17 | The loss of people in the country areas is called rural depopulation . |
18 | The movement away from the hills and valleys of the countryside is called rural depopulation . |
19 | Powicke believed that ‘ historians incur a grave danger of misconception if they divorce what are called political tendencies from the interplay of personal relations ’ . |
20 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
21 | When Lawson resigned the pundits gathered , and mused , and offered up their conjectures and reflections , and it was called Political Speculation . |
22 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
23 | Both diagnostic and tactical skills depend on what we have traditionally called political acumen — a combination of listening and observation skills , with a heightened capacity to predict likely behavioural outcomes . |
24 | No one had told me there was a thing called political theory . |
25 | Clauses which limit liability for a particular type of breach , by excluding any liability for pure economic loss , such as loss of profit or business , ( often loosely called consequential loss clauses ) should in most cases pass the test of reasonableness , whatever the cause of the breach , where the transaction is a non-consumer transaction . |
26 | The male has an extra pair of legs at his front end , called ovigerous legs . |
27 | The house turned out to be owned by an elderly man in white robes called Obed Hindi Ferkhan , who lived there with his extended family . |
28 | Ours was called Woolly Jump and she what she used to do she used to carry things into her den into er into er part of er a sort of little lobby that was all hers |
29 | So I if you read the book the book is called Woolly Jumper you can get it your at Cramwell , you can get it at Grantham . |
30 | They remained good friends , of course , and called each other up frequently on the telephone . |