Example sentences of "[noun] call [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modesty Blaise had lived in a penthouse , and Travis McGee lived on a boat called the Busted Flush . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Got a club called the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 4 | The winner 's the player who amasses enough points to create what the rulebook calls a trance-like state . |
| 5 | First , the Stock Exchange has set up a new market in company equities called the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) . |
| 6 | Frederick Starr calls the second and third principles " decentralization " ( which involved giving local officials more power but preserved the notion of bureaucratic or " ministerial " hegemony ) and " self-government " ( which meant introducing representative organs and giving non-bureaucrats in the provinces a larger say in the management of their affairs ) . |
| 7 | If I have any criticisms of this section it is that it underestimates the difficulties of writing software and ignores the influence the historical development of computing has on the acceptance of new ideas ( what Seymour Papert calls the QWERTY phenomenon ) . |
| 8 | Main change introduced in the Esprit III programme is a new category of research called the Open Microsystems Initiative ( OMI ) . |
| 9 | Why is the card called a Grizzled Skipper ? |
| 10 | Japan , moreover , was locked into a territorial dispute over the Soviet occupation of what the Soviet side called the southern Kurile islands , and what Japan called the northern territories , north-east of Hokkaido [ see p. 38148 ] . |
| 11 | Ten-forty-five on the commercial — some ghastly programme called The Human Angle . ’ |
| 12 | Bourjois ' Cil 18 Heures Mascara , £3.79 , for instance contains an ingredient called a hydrophobic polymer which improves the mascara 's resistance to water , whilst Lancôme 's Definicil Mascara , £12 , has a brush made of a substance called Rislan designed to be extra gentle on your lashes . |
| 13 | It is also possible to measure the energy of electrons using a more tried and tested type of instrument called a magnetic spectrometer . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | Most of the fighters follow the Iraqi Shia leader , Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim , who heads the coalition called the Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It 's collected into books called The Great Lovers ' Valentine World Anthology of Love Poetry or whatever . |
| 18 | As a result , we get books called The British System of Government or , more fashionably , The British Political System , where politics is added to institutions . |
| 19 | This fact becomes clear if one imagines an institution called The Anarchic University or Polytechnic ( some academics might think it is a fair description of their own ) . |
| 20 | In his theory of general relativity Einstein had showed that gravitational fields made clocks run slow , an effect called the gravitational red-shift . |
| 21 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 22 | The ( CPI-M ) government of West Bengal called a 24-hour industrial strike on Sept. 23 in protest against the Union government 's economic reforms . |
| 23 | Deutsche Bank , which arranged a Dm100m issue , and Geneva-based Warburg Soditic , which led two Swiss franc bonds , followed an example set by Credit Suisse which on Tuesday called the four issues it had arranged in Switzerland into default . |
| 24 | The opposition called a general strike for Feb. 19 , leaving the capital virtually deserted with shops closed and very little traffic on the roads . |
| 25 | Gradually , during his visits there , he began to tell her how much he had been looking forward to it , and confided how he would remember their ‘ walking the policies , ( which is what Delia Sutherland called a businesslike like across her property ) and sitting up late at night drinking brandy , discussing plans . |
| 26 | What Freud called the wishful purpose could also be called the structuring principle . |
| 27 | What Freud called the Auld Alliance . |
| 28 | Consciousness and , and the ego operate on the basis of what Freud called the secondary process . |
| 29 | So females are retained in these groups , but males are driven out by the dominant male , whom Freud called the primal father . |
| 30 | Northern Telecom Ltd 's DPN-100 broadband data network system is to be installed for a new system created by Telefonica de Espana SA called the Advanced Business Services Network , in an order worth $23m . |