Example sentences of "called the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is a fall-back position and that is that the European Community have a directive called the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive that requires that before a major project of this type is put through there must be the fullest public consultation . |
| 2 | This vibrates , again at the same frequency as the vocal cords , and the vibrations pass along three bones , which span the middle ear like an arch , to another membrane called the oval window . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is this alternative that is called the competing behaviour ( CB ) . |
| 5 | The father found him a ready substitute for his own dead infant son , Philip , and often called the young writer ‘ Phil ’ . |
| 6 | This is called the general gas law or sometimes the combined gas law . |
| 7 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 8 | Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( The General Register Office in St Catherine 's House , London ) A central register of births , deaths and the solemnization and registration of marriages , was begun on 1 July 1837 and was called The General Register Office . |
| 9 | It 's called the general formula . |
| 10 | A fee is collected by the PRS from the management of the venue and this is put into a fund called the General Distribution pool . |
| 11 | Realization dawned only in 1915 , when a comparatively young theoretical physicist called Albert Einstein published the paper that is now generally called the General Theory of Relativity . |
| 12 | The Cathedral of the Assumption ( Dormition ) , now called the Uspensky Cathedral , was built in 1158 but rebuilt after a fire in 1183 . |
| 13 | In his speech to the UN on Sept. 17 , the South Korean Foreign Affairs Minister , Lee Sang Ock , called the simultaneous entry to the UN " a giant first step forward " towards eventual reunification through confidence-building dialogue and co-operation within the UN framework . |
| 14 | The critical temperature of C02 is 304 K. The isotherm at this temperature is called the critical isotherm . |
| 15 | The composition at this point is called the critical composition . |
| 16 | The optimum linking of the various stages is called the critical path . |
| 17 | First of all note that the vapour pressure curve terminates at point C. This is called the critical point of water . |
| 18 | This is called the critical solution temperature . |
| 19 | This is called the critical temperature , Tc . |
| 20 | Landsat 4 has another sensor called the multispectral scanner which is a copy of that carried on earlier members of the Landsat family . |
| 21 | As Landsats 1–3 moved southwards over the illuminated side of the Earth an instrument called the Multispectral Scanner ( MSS ) measured the reflectance of the land or water surface along scan lines extending 92.5 km on either side of the sub-satellite track ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 22 | The temperature at which the solid and liquid are in equilibrium is called the freezing point . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | From 1948 when the National Insurance Scheme started , married women were given the option to pay the full-rate contribution for a pension in their own right or to be dependent on their husbands ' contributions and to pay a very reduced rate contribution — called the small stamp . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The growth of what is usually called the middle class has largely been the result of the increasing amount of white-collar work . |
| 27 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 28 | The yield actually obtained in an experiment or in an industrial process is called the actual yield . |
| 29 | The effectiveness usually lasts for some weeks , but is variable , depending largely on the amount of new growth being produced , and therefore the rate at which the toxic content is being diluted , and the speed of living — called the metabolic rate — which affects the rate at which the plant is able to break down and divest itself of what after all is a ‘ foreign body ’ . |
| 30 | Jealousy is called the green-eyed monster : it affects what is seen . |