Example sentences of "is called the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The numeric value f is called the fraction or mantissa , and the scaling factor e is called the exponent .
2 The person who relays the information is called the tipper while the recipient of the information is called the tippee ; thus secondary insider dealing is sometimes called tippee trading .
3 Rye Church , standing high on its hill , makes a landmark across the marshes ; the high ground above the town walls is called the Citadel ; if you live outside the walls your address is Rye Foreign .
4 When it lies on the Moon the dust plus any small rocks is called the regolith .
5 The directional guidance beam is called the LOCALISER .
6 This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them .
7 The height guidance beam is called the Glide Path , or Glide Slope .
8 This number , the chance of getting a less likely result , is called the backing which the experiment offers the theory .
9 One of them is called the Alamo and in 1836 became one of the shrines , not only of Texan history , but of the history of the United States .
10 The area covered by these coal mines , with the farmland between them , is called the Northumberland and Durham coalfield , or the North East coalfield .
11 Fractional distillation results in pure B and a mixture having the composition X. This mixture is called the azeotrope , the azeotropic mixture or the constant mixture .
12 The grenadier is more cod-like in taste and texture , while the scabbard ( sabra in France ) is popular in Madeira , where it is called the espada .
13 We have Definition 2.6.7 The function unc is called the composite of f and g .
14 The one of most interest to physicists is called the Z or Z-naught .
15 These are forbidden by our law , which is called the Yasa , and so he killed both of them .
16 This is called the gill withdrawal reflex , and is simply a protective reaction .
17 The system is called the Harzquerbahn , which means a railway crossing the Harz Mountains .
18 The matrix unc is called the adjugate of A. If A is singular , so that unc vanishes , then unc In this case , if A is simply degenerate , unc is of rank 1 ; but if A is multiply degenerate , so that all the cofactors of Aij vanish for all i , j , then unc is null .
19 That is why the instrument is called the y-ray microscope ; y-rays are short-wavelength rays of light .
20 " That peak is called the Ngu Binh .
21 The magnetopause marks the inner boundary of the agitated region which itself is called the magnetosheath .
22 The first is to change what is called the earnings disregard .
23 In the jargon of quantum mechanics , this choice of behaviour is called the statistics obeyed by the particle .
24 The denominator of the fraction is called the f-number , N. A large aperture implies a small value of N ; D=f/N
25 The perfect line on to which you would tack to make the mark is called the layline .
26 One in the British Museum ( fig. 77 ) has been known since the eighteenth century and is called the Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo after a former owner .
27 The second segment of a clause is called the rheme .
28 The crest-to-crest distance between adjacent waves is called the wavelength of the energy ( Figure 5.5 ) .
29 Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency .
30 They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma .
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