Example sentences of "[prep] be call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This one is expected to be called A Vision Of The Earth . |
| 2 | This used to be called a tight fiscal policy . |
| 3 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 4 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
| 5 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |
| 6 | Just what does something have to be for it to be called a god ? |
| 7 | ‘ Oh ’ , she says , ‘ I 'm not going to be called a granny . ’ |
| 8 | Wide boy Gary chats up Sue but she does n't want to be called a slut . |
| 9 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 10 | All he could say was that it had to be called a great and profound change , and that it had happened , ‘ I have a feeling of being at home when I am with her , as though she gives me my own hearth , a feeling that our lives are interwoven . ’ |
| 11 | That Commandos and other Special Forces of World War II were superb light infantry , is a fact all too often forgotten in the fashion of the 1970s when every political cut-throat wants to be called a ‘ commando ’ . |
| 12 | He described her as unfit to be called a Catholic and certainly unfit for motherhood . |
| 13 | Perhaps because I was hot-tempered at times , I became what used to be called a ‘ natural ’ as a boxer . |
| 14 | You are what used to be called a White Russian . ’ |
| 15 | Too expedient and un-systematic to be called a philosophy , they comprise even so a kind of official doctrine , rather as though a series of government inquiries on the press had set down an official theory of ‘ the Fourth Estate ’ . |
| 16 | But if this is to be called a rational method , it is so , from Stevenson 's point of view , mainly because it consists in letting one 's attitudes be moulded by rational factual beliefs . |
| 17 | This is a property still small and smiling enough to be called a ‘ home ’ rather than a hotel , with an intimate and friendly atmosphere . |
| 18 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 19 | And since the master-manufacturer also financed the provision of land , buildings , machinery and equipment he was — or had been — also what would come to be called a capitalist . |
| 20 | Prayer rugs , for example , are never referred to as carpets , and anything employing a hunting design would ten to be called a hunting carpet rather than a hunting rug . |
| 21 | The more organized the body of knowledge appears to be , the more distinct its academic identity , and the more likely it is to be called a ‘ discipline ’ . |
| 22 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |
| 23 | Even here in the dusty , bounding Toyota , this old man has a distinctiveness , the clubbable , dependable qualities of what used to be called a gentleman . |
| 24 | used to be called a ragged school . |
| 25 | But it used to be called a ragged school . |
| 26 | And I had to say yes , because I did n't want to be called a snob too . |
| 27 | The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box . |
| 28 | On the former definition , pushing someone in a river would have to be called a signal because it certainly would change his behaviour-but this would be excluded by the definition requiring the influence of the signal to be mediated by the recipient 's sense organs . |
| 29 | It also recommended that children whose needs could not be met within the resources of the ordinary school should have a record ( which came to be called a ‘ statement ’ ) of their special educational needs drawn up by a multi-professional team . |
| 30 | If I 'm making a film of myself and I 'm on probation , at the end of the year I can pass or fail or have my probation extended because I 'm not successful enough to be called a qualified teacher , then I 'm opening myself up for people to come and look at my mistakes . |