Example sentences of "called the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two-day meeting , called the Second Emergency Restoration-Unification Congress , formally restored the Russian Communist Party that lost much of its prestige , power and resources after the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev . |
| 2 | Ace called the second night after she got back . |
| 3 | None of the belligerents intended to fight what was called the second world war , they all entered into conflict , they all began er a rearmament programme with the idea of using violence as a means to secure lesser objectives . |
| 4 | THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 . |
| 5 | The principle of conservation of energy is sometimes called the First Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 6 | The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics . |
| 7 | He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated . |
| 8 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 9 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 10 | A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands , who introduced himself as Melquíades , put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia . |
| 11 | erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies . |
| 12 | His most bitter disappointment came when the music entrepreneur Phil Spector pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written called The Last Movie ( it was eventually produced in 1970 ) about Hollywood 's exploitation and destruction of South American Indians . |
| 13 | Chair , chair point of order , you do n't , point of order you , Mr does n't need to move an an amendment or anything else , you can still accept debate on any item on the agenda until you 've called the next agenda item , irrespective of the motion on the table . |
| 14 | He 'd called the next day , and Marlin had picked up . |
| 15 | The police were called the next day . |
| 16 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |