Example sentences of "has [be] called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The period between 1939 to 1949 has been called the most productive and significant period in Canadian letters to date , which matches the ‘ 10 Lost Years ’ of the post-Depression period exactly . |
| 2 | It has been called the ‘ British Problem ’ , brought into being by a combination of renewed English ambition and , for the first time , a new attitude among at least some of the Scots to their southern neighbour . |
| 3 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 4 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 5 | Members of the Wedgwood family had been master potters here since the seventeenth century , and Burslem has been called the ‘ Mother of the Potteries ’ . |
| 6 | Those principles could well be applied to theology , which has been called the queen of the sciences . |
| 7 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 8 | In the context of the debate on continuation schools it can best be understood through an examination of two of its principal features , namely , political stability , which of necessity included social harmony , and what has been called the ‘ civic ideal ’ , which meant service to the community . |
| 9 | History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene . |
| 10 | Tyner ( b. 1938 ) , another original and previously precocious American talent , was one fourth of what has been called the ‘ most influential quartet in jazz history ’ — namely John Coltrane of 1960–65 ( Coltrane , Tyner , Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones ) . |
| 11 | The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos . |
| 12 | The effective transaction of communicative business requires the parties concerned to enter into a sort of social contract involving adherence to what has been called the ‘ Cooperative Principle ’ ( see Grice 1975 ) . |
| 13 | This head of claim has been called the ‘ walk away ’ category . |
| 14 | Luke has been called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | Next to Howard Hodgson , who has been called the tycoon of funeral directors . |
| 16 | He was elected — in absentia — as chairman of the clandestine bishop 's conference established in November 1989 , as a gesture of respect from the leaders of what has been called the largest illegal religious group . |
| 17 | This has brought in a new dimension to recent thinking , and begun to raise sharp questions about what has been called the ‘ Latin captivity ’ of western theology . |
| 18 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |
| 19 | Thinking and practice impose what has been called the ‘ sick role ’ ( Tuckett , 1976 ) on people with learning difficulties . |
| 20 | Bodiam has been called the most romantic castle ruin in the whole of England . |
| 21 | An example of this is shown in what has been called the ‘ Colditz Bicycle Game ’ . |
| 22 | RICHARD PHELPS , 29 , has been called the most consistent pentathlete in the world . |
| 23 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 24 | This is particularly true of what has been called the functionalist theory of the family . |
| 25 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 26 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 27 | The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences . |
| 28 | This kind of thing , what has been called the ‘ roving anecdote ’ , makes it easy to recognize the tyrannical or other type , hard to get at the truth about an individual . |
| 29 | The immediate cause of the crisis is seen as the combination of different types of difficult prisoners — what has been called the ‘ toxic mix ’ of prisoners ( Home Office , 1994a : para 124 ) — in physically poor and insecure conditions which gives rise to an ‘ explosion ’ . |
| 30 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |