Example sentences of "[adv] call the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Irreverently called the flying mattress or airbed , the Flexifoils are unique . |
| 2 | If the difference of interests of bourgeois and worker is the social contradiction of capitalism , then the advent of modernist culture is what Daniel Bell has rightly called the cultural contradiction of capitalism . |
| 3 | The High Court , the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal are together called the Supreme Court . |
| 4 | One of the shawled women must have seen Sharpe and Doggett approaching for she suddenly called the small girl who ran nervously towards the thatched cottage . |
| 5 | It generates paper in sickening profusion ; it makes unconscionable demands on the heroes of the piece , the thirteen or fourteen hundred volunteers drawn mainly from ‘ that two-handed engine ’ we pompously call the binary system of higher education … but with all its faults the system works . |
| 6 | He was naked , and obviously he was not called the biggest chopper in the Brigade for nothing . |
| 7 | Realization dawned only in 1915 , when a comparatively young theoretical physicist called Albert Einstein published the paper that is now generally called the General Theory of Relativity . |
| 8 | He has therefore aptly called the higher layers the " post-Wordsworthian " . |
| 9 | Later in 1761 the Committee ordered Miller to ‘ hire a house lately called the New Tavern for his residence , provided the rent does not exceed £20 per annum ’ . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly the impetus for what became the National Council of Evangelical Free Churches ( normally called the National Free Church Council ) came from a Congregationalist , J. Guinness Rogers . |
| 11 | I 'm not calling the Labour party , I 'm calling the man , that he 's been in too long ! |
| 12 | ‘ But that should n't be for a while , they 're not calling the twenties up yet … |
| 13 | If he had bothered to read his own party 's policy document he would have seen that it is his party which seeks to deprive the inspectorate of its independence ; that it is his party which is determined to put the inspectorate under the control of a new quango quaintly called the educational standards commission ; that it is his party which would deprive Her Majesty 's inspectorate of an essential part of what has given it independence and credibility — its role in advising the Secretary of State of the day . |
| 14 | Was he just called the green night or did |
| 15 | No , I did not call the hon. Member for Carrick , Cumnock and Doon Valley ( Mr. Foulkes ) and I know that the hospital is in his constituency , but perhaps he will be patient . |
| 16 | It is also possible , also without such misuse , not to call the second member an effect , but to call it a nomic correlate instead , as we have . |
| 17 | So there are educational erm resources erm as well as others and in my view one of the great gaps that 's starting er that 's growing and growing in the world is the difference between educational patterns in the more advanced world and that in some parts of what we normally call the Third World . |
| 18 | ( collectively called the Non-academic Organizations ) AND ( collectively called the Academic Organizations ) altogether collectively called the Participating Organizations or the Parties |
| 19 | ( collectively called the Non-academic Organizations ) AND ( collectively called the Academic Organizations ) altogether collectively called the Participating Organizations or the Parties |
| 20 | ( collectively called the Non-academic Organizations ) AND ( collectively called the Academic Organizations ) altogether collectively called the Participating Organizations or the Parties |
| 21 | Oh that was just always called the little house . |
| 22 | Brenda had heard it all before when she ate her lunch-time sandwiches in the room , halfway between a kitchen and a sitting-room , which was still called the junior Mess . |
| 23 | That is why it is essential that we should continue to develop the space-based defence , which was once called the strategic defence initiative or SDI and is now referred to as ’ brilliant pebbles ’ . |
| 24 | Once called the rich man 's game , golf is now one of the top sports activities of many social clubs and the winners of the Durham championship go on to compete nationally . |
| 25 | [ You know , of course , the Blue Boar was once called the White Boar but after Bosworth , they changed the colour from white to blue . |
| 26 | This supposed boundary of the Pacific plate almost exactly parallels what was once called the Andesite Line : a zone surrounding the Pacific , on the outer edge of which are found rocks of an andesitic — acid — variety , and within which nearly all the rocks are of a more basic kind , using the word in its chemical sense . |
| 27 | It was my own ; product of boarding school , university , the accent of what a sociologist once called the Dominant Hundred Thousand . |
| 28 | NOW the European Community mandarins have gone their separate ways after yet another costly weekend of squabbling and arm-twisting , it 's time we realised that the nations which form what was once called The Common Market actually have very little in ‘ common ’ at all . |
| 29 | First But Derek always calls the next one up the stop the kitty game . |
| 30 | It draws us towards other ignored aspects of existence usually called the psychic , esoteric or occult and suggests a possible connection . |