Example sentences of "it was called [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find |
2 | ‘ I thought you said it was called London . ’ |
3 | It was called London Lights and won several races at White City . |
4 | It was called silage and to the careful Orkney farmer it seemed all too good to be true . |
5 | It was called Iwe Irobin fun awon ara Egba Yorubas ( ‘ the newspaper for Egba and Yoruba people ’ ) and was priced at 30 cowries ! |
6 | It was called Professor Plop and the Timemachine . |
7 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
8 | It was called Frag , and it would be giving off enough psychochemical fragrance into their nostrils to keep there minds dislocated for a week . |
9 | It was called Faith . |
10 | It was called prostaglandin , but in time was found to be a mixture of many related substances with very complex chemical and biological properties . |
11 | The nearest flower shop was not far ; it was called Rose 's Garden and stood between a rather nice , old-fashioned type of coffee shop , called Memories , and a shop that sold reject china . |
12 | It was called Station . |
13 | It was called determination . |
14 | ( In France it was called Hein ? ) |
15 | Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea . |
16 | I think maybe it was called Simon — I ai n't sure . |
17 | It was it was called Hotel then . |
18 | But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury . |
19 | It was called El Misr and Lili exclaimed , ‘ Egypt again . |
20 | It was called Marienburg ( now Malbork ) . |
21 | It was called Tit for Tat , and was submitted by Professor Anatol Rapoport , a well-known psychologist and games theorist from Toronto . |
22 | ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’ |
23 | The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community . |
24 | It was called Bird of Freedom . |
25 | House prices were like any other price — they were fuelled by too-easy credit , and when that happened , it was called inflation . |
26 | From the pink frilly garment , Clara would have deduced that the baby must be a girl , but she clearly remembered that it was called James . |
27 | Under the Rouxs , it was called Le Gamin and became known for inexpensive but elegant food in cramped surroundings . |
28 | It was called Le Perroquet . |
29 | Discovered in 1844 , it was called Peyronne 's chloride after its discoverer to distinguish it from another complex with the same formula , known as trans- DDP . |
30 | She made a deliberate detour past Miguel 's house on her way back to Monte Samana , and , without stopping , noted that it was called Casa Madrid . |