Example sentences of "what is [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The transfer of ownership to the co-operative in 1988 has resulted in one of the most conspicuous restorations within what is flexibly called the Old Town of Edinburgh . |
2 | Between 1168 and 1174 , Barbarossa spent what is often termed the middle period of his reign in Germany . |
3 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
4 | This process is begun more explicitly in Barthes 's S/Z which in its change of direction opens what is now called the post-structuralist era and marks the end of the so-called classical or scientific period of structuralism . |
5 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |
6 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
7 | Once again the Italian School is represented by the largest number , fifty-one ; there are no additional Spanish drawings ; the British School has increased by two , the Flemish by eight , the Dutch by twenty-three , the French by twenty-nine , but the surprise is the rapid expansion of what is now called the Central European School , comprising German , Swiss and Prague Schools , of which there are twenty-nine compared with the fifteen published in the first volume . |
8 | The growth of what is usually called the middle class has largely been the result of the increasing amount of white-collar work . |
9 | At the heart of what is commonly called the Anglican tradition of church music are the cathedrals , collegiate and choral foundations and Royal Peculiars of the Church of England . |
10 | These centuries were the age of what is commonly called the feudal society . |