Example sentences of "be called [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a tall , bony old man , with a long melancholy face and little bushy whiskers — ‘ lamb cutlets , ’ thought Breeze , for they were too small to be called ordinary mutton chops . |
| 2 | ‘ Though it be not sense , as having nothing to do with external objects , yet it is very like it , and might properly enough be called internal sense ’ . |
| 3 | Only the large , ground-living cassowaries from the Australasian rain forests possess anything that could be called avian armour , and even there it is confined solely to the head region . |
| 4 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 5 | This common knowledge of shared experience and conventionally sanctioned reality can be called schematic knowledge : it is the knowledge which is acquired as a condition of entry into a particular culture or sub-culture . |
| 6 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 7 | For example , we could have a number of herds of cattle ; these herds would be called primary sampling units and the individual cattle are secondary sampling units . |
| 8 | At the same time the Island women showed greater signs of what might be called normal anxiety . |
| 9 | The tendency to have such causes and effects can be called emotive meaning , if one likes . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The force within can also be manipulated through … Dieting , in which you are discouraged from eating meat because it provokes unhelpful vibrations and produces what might be called static interference in meditation . |
| 12 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 13 | National expenditure , then , can be called actual expenditure , while aggregate demand can be called planned expenditure . |
| 14 | An alternative to the expulsion procedure exists in what might be called compulsory retirement ( Clause 18.03 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | So you want them to be called interim fieldwork reports . |
| 17 | The second tendency is what used to be called Black nationalism but is now fragmented into multiple varieties , each with its own claim to ethnic particularity . |
| 18 | Throughout the first decade of television , the dominant influence was what would now be called stand-up comedy . |
| 19 | Given that the coin was put in , it was then a matter of what can be called real chance that the bar came out . |
| 20 | These are to be called Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) . |
| 21 | The other major seems to be , to do with ideas about what we would qualify , but could equally well be called ritual purity and impurity . |
| 22 | What is more , there is very little that can be called oceanic crust or trench-filling sediment ( flysch , olistostromes , etc. ) within the Hercynian massifs of Europe . |
| 23 | National expenditure , then , can be called actual expenditure , while aggregate demand can be called planned expenditure . |
| 24 | Such examples lead on to Nagel 's definition of moral luck : ‘ Where a significant aspect of what someone does depends upon factors beyond his control , yet we continue to treat him in that respect as an object of moral judgment , it can be called moral luck . |
| 25 | The relevant units of the matrix came to be called strategic business units ( SBUs ) . |
| 26 | An alternative to both monism and dualism which is in some ways more enlightening than either is the approach which may fittingly be called stylistic PLURALISM . |
| 27 | The scientists and philosophers — and I think it 's significant that scientific study used to be called natural philosophy — they think in a big way , about yesterday and tomorrow , about the whole great sweep of mankind in the world . |
| 28 | The focus of his concerns seem to have lain close to tradition , and although what he wrote may be called natural history and social history , such definitions trammel him . |
| 29 | In recent years a number of attempts to integrate and coordinate these functions has come to be called Physical Distribution Management . |
| 30 | Obair has also had reservations about private sector developments in West Belfast — or perhaps they should be called public sector developments with a private face . |