Example sentences of "a [noun sg] call [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It formed a ridge called a terminal moraine . |
| 2 | At this time , a singularity called the big bang , the density of the universe and the curvature of space-time would have been infinite . |
| 3 | In 1920 he was back in the West End in a play called The White Man . |
| 4 | Modesty Blaise had lived in a penthouse , and Travis McGee lived on a boat called the Busted Flush . |
| 5 | Got a club called the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 6 | In Spain , the party still propounding old-fashioned socialist policies — a coalition called the United Left , not the Socialist Party itself — is tearing itself acrimoniously apart . |
| 7 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 8 | A representative from Channel 7 visited this office in September with the same story as your article described , following a very aggressive sales pitch during a telephone call the previous week from the UK . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I work with a publication called the New Internationalist . ’ |
| 10 | He took them by a tortuous route to a pub called The Black Dog , which made a change from horses and pookas , until she recollected uneasily that a black dog was one of the devil 's traditional earthly disguises . |
| 11 | Poor old Pengam Moors , the one-time Cardiff Airport which was originally known by the curious name of Splott , is also extinct and remembered only by a pub called The Old Airport . |
| 12 | It was in part to answer these questions that the California State Legislature in the Autumn of 1976 passed a law called the Natural Death Act . |
| 13 | The heart of the Swaledale mining field is a vein called the Friarfold Vein running from the neighbourhood of Keld across to Arkengarthdale . |
| 14 | A quantity called the Gaussian curvature quantifies the local curvature of any two-dimensional surface and can be generalized in the case of higher dimensions . |
| 15 | A quantity called the covariant derivative can be formed by dividing this change by the path length between P and P ’ and taking the limit as i.e. . |
| 16 | ‘ How in the mountains of Palestine live a secret sect of infidels called the Assassins , ruled by a chieftain called the Old Man of the Mountain . |
| 17 | In pressing for cutbacks , Nik Powell also urged Draper to drop a group called the Human League from the roster . |
| 18 | Against them are ranged just about everyone else with a flavour of Unix — including IBM , which has AIX — in a group called the Open Software Foundation . |
| 19 | MCI Communications Corp has been chosen to provide end-to-end digital connections for voice and data transmissions across the US and between Canada and Mexico to a group called the Multilateral Initiative , composed of 32 European , Asian-Pacific and South American telecommunications carriers ; the value of the pact was not revealed . |
| 20 | To help administer it , there was a body called the Central Policy Review Staff ( CPRS ) which reviewed policies interdepartmentally . |
| 21 | He reads the instructions on a firework called a roman candle . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A team called the Daily Mirror Eight toured seaside towns during the summer from June till the end of August . |
| 24 | They had gone all over the place ; peeking into the Oval Office ( but the little rope was across , Hakim said ) ; stopping on the stairs to look at a picture called The Canine Cabinet , in which North pointed out a drowsing member and said it was Casey ; and into the Roosevelt Room , where North showed the young Iranian the Nobel Prize won by Theodore Roosevelt for negotiating peace between the Russians and the Japanese . |
| 25 | ‘ The only time John interfered editorially was when we wanted to introduce a character called The Milky Bar Yid . |
| 26 | He peddles a newspaper called The White Patriot — the Worldwide Voice of the Aryan People . |
| 27 | He had a helmet called a hard hat . |
| 28 | Runners-up included ten-year-olds Claire Butler , from , Pickering , Yorkshire , who intends to become a journalist and start a paper called the Nosey Parker , and Wesley Thomas , from Middlesbrough , who wants to be an ecological dustman because he ‘ likes getting mucky ’ . |
| 29 | A monograph called The Greek Anthology : Sources and Ascriptions appeared in 1958 , and in 1965 it was followed by the two-volume Hellenistic Epigrams : the Garland of Meleager , in which Gow collaborated with ( Sir ) Denys Page [ q.v . ] , |
| 30 | In Spain for a man to call a pretty girl a man would be great rudeness . ’ |