Example sentences of "was [adv] called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some games he was just called The Master . |
| 2 | And we drove down to another place , I think this was , it was just called the pub . |
| 3 | He was naked , and obviously he was not called the biggest chopper in the Brigade for nothing . |
| 4 | Kosuth 's show was not called the play of the unmentionable for nothing : for Establishment Man , the whole censorship scam must seem like a glorified game-show that can be viewed with Olympian detachment , fingers poised on the remote-control button . |
| 5 | NOW the European Community mandarins have gone their separate ways after yet another costly weekend of squabbling and arm-twisting , it 's time we realised that the nations which form what was once called The Common Market actually have very little in ‘ common ’ at all . |
| 6 | This supposed boundary of the Pacific plate almost exactly parallels what was once called the Andesite Line : a zone surrounding the Pacific , on the outer edge of which are found rocks of an andesitic — acid — variety , and within which nearly all the rocks are of a more basic kind , using the word in its chemical sense . |
| 7 | Another development of the 1980s , which is relevant to the fortunes of institutions such as the ICA , is the disappearance of what was once called the ‘ avant-garde ’ has tended to conclude that it always was distinguishable from ‘ modern ’ or ‘ modernist ’ , and that its key feature was political affiliation , generally expressed as strategies of negation and opposition . |
| 8 | The headquarters for Russia 's fur trade in the 1800s was once called the Paris of the Pacific because of its grace and charm . |
| 9 | That is why it is essential that we should continue to develop the space-based defence , which was once called the strategic defence initiative or SDI and is now referred to as ’ brilliant pebbles ’ . |
| 10 | [ You know , of course , the Blue Boar was once called the White Boar but after Bosworth , they changed the colour from white to blue . |
| 11 | The house by the line was always called the School . |
| 12 | The favourite line of attack employed what was technically called the plum-pudding model . |
| 13 | The earthen pillar was still called the arooseh , the bride of the Nile , and its drowning by the rising waters was greeted with great cheers and tumult by the watching crowds . |
| 14 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 15 | The International Telecommunication Union is holding its first World Telecommunications Standardisation Conference in Helsinki March 1 to 12 : the conference succeeds what was formerly called the CCITT Plenary Assembly , and follows the ITU 's restructuring announced last year . |
| 16 | The Swan , it was probably called The Swan Inn I think . |
| 17 | The method of resolution , which begins with effects and seeks for causes , was traditionally called the ‘ method of discovery , invention , or investigation ’ ; so the direction or ‘ order of discovery ’ is from ‘ effects to causes ’ . |
| 18 | Society viewed as a system for production and distribution , conceived of independently of the actors ' representations or justifications of the system , is what was later called the ‘ social formation ’ . |
| 19 | With an instinct for what was later called the ‘ Art of the Soluble ’ , most biochemists confined themselves to more manageable topics . |
| 20 | A now famed example of the former ( and we understand that it is now denied by Rolls Royce ) is that the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow was nearly called the Silver Mist which would have been most unfortunate when selling to the German market . |
| 21 | However , the branch in its sylvan setting and meandering through the scenic beauty of the Wolds was often called the ‘ Bluebell Line ’ . |
| 22 | The house was originally called The Resident Lodge , now known as the Tower House , near Bath . |
| 23 | Acquiring the rights to The Great Rock ‘ n ’ Roll Swindle had led to the formation of what was grandly called the Film Division although that was the only film yet within its compass . |
| 24 | He thus denied himself any further influence , but the radicals who did join what was now called the Derry Citizens ' Action Committee did not dictate the pace of events and had little which was distinctive to say or propose within the new body . |
| 25 | It was n't called the railway board . |
| 26 | I mentioned that Jesus was sometimes called the Lamb of God . |
| 27 | The triumphal arch or , as it was earlier called the monumental arch , is the most typical of all the forms . |
| 28 | Following the fragment is the first in our series chronicling the origins , the political range of what was then called the Women 's Liberation Movement . |
| 29 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 30 | Then there was a big show of Miró in New York in the late Sixties that got a good review in what was then called The Herald Tribune . |