Example sentences of "be called the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As will be considered further , it is not at all clear , however , that the newly formulated offence entirely cures what might be called the policeman defect . |
| 2 | To say ‘ the Word was made flesh ’ , then , refers not to a simple identity of God and Jesus but to a relationship in which God lovingly identifies himself in and with a real human person , 80 that that person can truly be called the Word , the self-communication and self-objectification of God in human terms … . |
| 3 | Variety will be the catchword at the new venue , to be called the Beehive Variety Club . |
| 4 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 5 | But during their stay , at Moses ' instruction , they provided materials for the construction of the very complex tent which has come to be called the tabernacle . |
| 6 | It came amid reports that the government had in July accepted US funds to establish a new 100-strong secret service , to be called the Council for Public Security and National Defence , closely linked to the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) . |
| 7 | The need for a third dimension arises most obviously from what may be called the problem of philosophy . |
| 8 | Obviously this is highly selective , and has an uncertain relationship to non-documentary reality ; this might be called the problem of ‘ rose-tinted documentation ’ . |
| 9 | The first will be called the problem of analysis : we may accept the principle of the phoneme as a fundamental unit in language , but we find difficulty in deciding what are the phonemes of a language ( in our case , of English ) . |
| 10 | The second area of difficulty will be called the problem of assignment . |
| 11 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 12 | This inner ode may be called the kernel mode , in which case the intermediate ode is called the supervisor mode . |
| 13 | The new party was to be called the Revival Party of Mongolia , and 300 MPRP members were said to have joined initially . |
| 14 | A fourth type of critic can be called the compiler , whose criticism is implied in choices for collections or exhibitions . |
| 15 | ‘ Pneumonia may well be called the friend of the aged . |
| 16 | It provides for the appointment of the ombudsman to be called the Building Societies Ombudsman as the adjudicator required by the Act . |
| 17 | Perhaps whoever becomes Secretary of State for Industry after the general election in four weeks time — what a mercifully short election period — should be called the Secretary of State for Industry and Technology . |
| 18 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 19 | The best feasible solution so far discovered will be called the incumbent . |
| 20 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 21 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 22 | Elections will then have to be held to chose the 300 members of the lower house , to be called the State Duma . |
| 23 | What ‘ the state ’ stands for is a number of particular institutions which , together , constitute its reality , and which interact as parts of what may be called the state system . |
| 24 | At a meeting in the Rummer Tavern ( which still exists in rebuilt form a few doors from Cottle 's former bookshop ) he was persuaded by ‘ sundry Philanthropists ’ and opponents of the war to begin publication of a periodical to be called the Watchman . |
| 25 | If , then , this column is going to be devoted to what could be called the ecology ( or Eco-logy ) of popular culture , it 's obliged to recognize that none of the emblematic artifices and artefacts of that culture , be they movies , commercials , headlines , photographs , typefaces , fashions or fads , can any longer be trusted to be ‘ innocent ’ ; that even if the crisp elegance of the typeface in which this article is embedded emits a ‘ meaning ’ as much as does the text itself , that meaning is also just as conscious and deliberate . |
| 26 | I will call it the principle of comprehensive ( political ) neutrality to distinguish it from the second principle which will be called the principle of narrow ( political ) neutrality . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This may be called the Principle of the Relative Independence of Sedimentation and Subsidence . |
| 29 | This may be called the Principle of the Golden Spike . |
| 30 | If the Emperor encouraged Haussmann by taking a personal interest in his plans , it was the Empress who worked with Alphand , a man who might well be called the gardener of Paris , for it was he who was responsible for the landscaping and planting of all the new parks . |