Example sentences of "[be] call [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
| 2 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
| 3 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
| 4 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 5 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
| 6 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 7 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 8 | The story , based on a novel by Edith Wharton has been called a heterosexual ‘ Death in Venice ’ , but it is far more than that ( you may equally regard it as a grown-up ‘ Sound of Music ’ ) ! |
| 9 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 10 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
| 11 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 12 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 13 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
| 14 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 15 | Such a payment has often been called a voluntary payment . |
| 16 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
| 17 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 18 | On the brink of suicide himself when imprisoned for writing to a friend who had been called a counter-revolutionary , Liang Heng wonders , ‘ Why should two good people like my parents be forced to divorce each other ? |
| 19 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 20 | Their friendship has been called a unique political ménage à trois . |
| 21 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 22 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 23 | He was elected — in absentia — as chairman of the clandestine bishop 's conference established in November 1989 , as a gesture of respect from the leaders of what has been called the largest illegal religious group . |
| 24 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 25 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 26 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 27 | A dermatology hospital which has been called the best in the country has opened in Oxford . |
| 28 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
| 29 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 30 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |