Example sentences of "it [modal v] [be] called " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | From another point of view it may be called the inner shrine . |
| 2 | It may involve three or more subjects studied separately but in parallel , as in the Scottish general degree or some polytechnic/college ‘ combined studies ’ degrees ; or it may integrate several subjects in relation to some area , period , theme or problem , in which case it may be called interdisciplinary ; or it may consist of a more open , modular system of requirements and options . |
| 3 | ( There is no accepted name for the latter , but it may be called the casus male inclusus ) . |
| 4 | This coquetry , or whatever it may be called , of so wretched a being , was truly ludicrous . ’ |
| 5 | Tomorrow it may be called something else . |
| 6 | The port , as it may be called , or double canal head in the town crowded with coal barges is a noble spectacle , with that prodigious animation which the immense trade of this place could alone give . |
| 7 | IT may be called ‘ the short sea route ’ from Scotland to Ireland , but for Ballygalley man Hugh Montgomery the trip from Cairnryan to Larne presents a huge challenge . |
| 8 | Point A must , therefore , be on the individual 's budget line ( or , as it may be called in this case , his consumption possibilities line ) . |
| 9 | Although no formal proposals have yet been announced by anyone , there is no doubt that the idea for a ‘ Super Super Series ’ , as I suppose it should be called , is gaining momentum . |
| 10 | In 1920 , Croydon Aerodrome became a civilian airport , operated by Imperial Airways ( the local Council thought it should be called Wallington Airport ) . |
| 11 | This record should n't be called ‘ Erotica ’ , it should be called ‘ SHAG ’ . |
| 12 | If such a home places its residents under the care of a consultant psychiatrist , surely it should be called a hospital . |
| 13 | This would be a counterblast to the growing propaganda of the Left , not only in Oxford but outside — in fact , I suggested that it should be called Counterblast , with Wyndham Lewis 's ‘ puce monster ’ , Blast , in mind — but we were as anxious to dissociate ourselves from the Right . |
| 14 | When we were discussing the name of the new Department , I remember a senior civil servant suggesting to the Prime Minister that , with all those powers , it should be called ’ The Department for Living ’ . |
| 15 | Yes , I think this is what 's tended to happen is people call the system , i.e. the central processing unit — which is really the microprocessor , the memory and the interface circuits — as a microprocessor , when really it should be called a microcomputer . |
| 16 | I should like to live in a community , Eleanor Thorne decided , I should like to taste the fruits of life in a small home , a retirement home , an old people 's house , whatever it might be called . |
| 17 | Point 1 made by Bowley is a more general and fundamental one than the other three and deserves special comment ; it might be called the principle of parsimony . |
| 18 | the ‘ contradiction ’ is inseparable from the total structure of the social body in which it is found , inseparable from its formal conditions of existence , and even from the instances it governs ; it is radically affected by them , determining , but also determined in one and the same movement , and determined by the various levels and instances of the social formation it animates ; it might be called overdetermined in its principle . |
| 19 | Many observers noticed the force and weight of his presence ; it might be called dedication , or ambition , or it might have been something below the level of consciousness which propelled him forward . |
| 20 | Er there 's a book , which I do n't think is on your list but it might be called By Thorn and Henley er which might be worth looking at . |
| 21 | Yeah , it might be called Setup , install |
| 22 | It might be called a polyamino acid , because the basic units are amino acids . |
| 23 | Joan 's use of Creole is so limited that it might be called tokenistic . |
| 24 | We have the Association for the Disabled for the blind , we have Age Concern but there is n't a for the mentally or for mental health or for whatever it might be called , and these groups are very useful in providing a focal point for liaison between statutory organizations , including the health service , and the users and carers , and providing points of lobbying concern , points on which we can comment and that that increasingly is the way we 're working in the community care consultation process . |
| 25 | It could be called upon at any time and indeed was from time to time . |
| 26 | But the sober , clipped tones of the FA representatives told that the party was over : the reward , if reward it could be called , was an away tie at Rochdale . |
| 27 | In fact , the decision was taken because at the time the government was pursuing a policy of shadowing the Deutsche Mark , a policy which it could be called upon to defend in Parliament . |
| 28 | The Red Lion was on the outskirts of town , in ‘ the country ’ — if so it could be called — where fields showed coyly between pre-war semis , sprouting electricity sub-stations and pylons , drive-in garden centres and the odd cow or two . |
| 29 | For that reason , when Ms Tyson claims that it is a ‘ terrible exaggeration ’ to say that her approach amounts to managed trade , traditional free-traders , wedded to the advantages of multilateralism , will wonder what else it could be called . |
| 30 | Britain 's role as Kingston described it could be called that of a peace-keeping force , and his stones of intrigue and skirmish are punctuated by anti-war sentiments . |