Example sentences of "be called the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second reason for thinking there will be more back-pedalling reflects shifts in what might be called the strategic and historical experience of some of the EC 's members . |
| 2 | We think , perhaps , too much of the sedimentary environment , and not enough of what may be called the geophysical environment that can ensure their preservation . |
| 3 | However , the meeting , representing 33 different organizations , voted to establish a body " without rigid structures " rather than a party , to be called the Democratic Choice Bloc . |
| 4 | From another point of view it may be called the inner shrine . |
| 5 | When we visited the big open-air retail market in the upper town at Montpellier , there was an ordinary enough little charcuterie-épicerie stall offering the ingredients of what might be called the small change of French cookery , but to our English eyes it looked particularly inviting and interesting . |
| 6 | If the eighteenth century is often described by architectural historians as the great age of the English house , the Victorian period might equally well be called the great age of the English home . |
| 7 | It used to be called the Great Western railway , which was built in the 1830s under the guidance of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
| 8 | This , which may also be called the socio-biological or ‘ geneticist ’ thesis , asserts that innate biological factors determine a person 's morality . |
| 9 | The exertions of all the different kinds of labour that are directly or indirectly involved in making it ; together with the abstinences or rather the waitings required for saving the capital used in making it : all these efforts and sacrifices together will be called the real cost of production of the commodity . |
| 10 | Peter Rogers , however , is adamant that neither of then could be called the real star of the ‘ Carry Ons ’ . |
| 11 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 12 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 13 | This is very clear in the swashbuckling tale given that very title , compounded by Conrad and his close friend Ford Madox Hueffer ( afterwards Ford Madox Ford ) in what may surely be called the Golden Age of the classic adventure story . |
| 14 | It does not concern all , either , of what can be called the mental . |
| 15 | Another process which would be applicable to the right type of terrain is what might be called the continuous reclamation process . |
| 16 | These properties might be called the zero-divisor law , the cancellation law and the mysterious law ( see [ 4 , p. 5 ] ) respectively . |
| 17 | It was during this period of what used to be called the Dark Ages that the ethnic map of Europe began to assume a character which in the main survives today . |
| 18 | We adopt , therefore , an approach which might appropriately be termed the unorthodox view as opposed to what could be called the traditional view . |
| 19 | The first , which can conveniently be called the traditional theory , is known as the ‘ price pressure hypothesis ’ , and holds that rights issues will cause a temporary depression in the price as the issue has increased the supply of shares . |
| 20 | What might be called the traditional view of the effect of the capital structure on the price of shares is that there is an optimal debt-equity mix which will maximize the value of the company 's securities . |
| 21 | It can be called the logical problem , and briefly expressed it is this : in general , what are the premisses or grounds or bases for dependent conditionals ? |
| 22 | The greatest problem facing schools , now as always , is how to ensure the best possible service to present pupils ( this may be called the steady-state operation ) , while at the same time , developing the creativity which alone will allow us to continue to adapt to change in the future . |
| 23 | She has become what might be called The professional Daleswoman . |
| 24 | We are more concerned here with what might be called the roast beef of scoring than with the confectionery . |
| 25 | Discourse analysts have for over a decade been probing the properties of what has come to be called the conversational ‘ turn ’ . |
| 26 | The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human . |
| 27 | Today , the existence of these stages of psycho-sexual development is seldom disputed , even though , as we have already seen , the full significance of infantile sexuality is characteristically denied and avoided by what might be called the modern , permissive defence against psychoanalytic insight . |
| 28 | It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim . |
| 29 | This time I want to concentrate on what might be called the postmodern mode of signification , or a postmodern ‘ semiotics ’ . |
| 30 | Peter Rawlins , having failed in his mission to set up the stubbornly impracticable Taurus computer trading system , has done what used to be called the honourable thing . |