Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] call a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Such a tree is called a binary tree , and of course its branching ratio is 2 . |
| 32 | 8 This quadrilateral is called a rhombus . |
| 33 | If any descriptive word is used at all , it is usually " valuer " , and the procedure is called a " valuation " or an " appraisement " , and not " expert determination " or a " reference to an expert " . |
| 34 | The taekwondo suit is called a tobok ; like the other martial arts uniforms , it is loose fitting and has developed from the peasant 's costume . |
| 35 | If the direction is reversed the defect is called a fold , while if the defect causes neither displacement nor reversal of direction but only a local disordering of the zigzag configuration it is called a kink . |
| 36 | Similarly , one involving transfer from ligand to metal is called a reductive charge-transfer transition . |
| 37 | Speaking of the alleged reprocessing facility he stated that " if it were in operation and complete , then it would certainly in our terminology be called a reprocessing plant " . |
| 38 | The writ is called a subpoena , because it requires him to appear upon pain of forfeiting a sum of money . |
| 39 | And and on the er here you 've got erm siding with that that erm circular object is called a wagon turntable . |
| 40 | This very simple type of graph is called a number line It can be used to count off answers to + and — operations . |
| 41 | This distortion is called a tide . |
| 42 | Where towns have been joined in this way the whole built-up area is called a conurbation . |
| 43 | Each memory block is called a ‘ bit plane ’ , and supplies one of the bits needed for each pixel . |
| 44 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 45 | In Belgrade slang , an attractive woman is called a gun . |
| 46 | The overall sequence is called a byte . |
| 47 | The place or hall where one trains is called a ‘ dojo ’ ; the instructor is called a ‘ sensei ’ , which is Japanese for ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 48 | Some children saw an ending where the aggressive adult was called a ‘ champion ’ , some saw the aggressor being berated , and others saw an ending where there was neither a reward nor a punishment . |
| 49 | Should such a union be called a marriage ? |
| 50 | This desired state is called a goal state . |
| 51 | One such state is called a white dwarf . |
| 52 | Thus , use of " iff " indicates that a will be called a divisor of b when and only when the required c exists . |
| 53 | They may , for example , all be functions of time , so that we must write A = A(t) ; they may be functions of a parameter , typified by unc when the elements are rational integral functions of{ gl } , the matrix is called a lambda-matrix ; or the elements may themselves ( especially for vectors ) be independent variables . |
| 54 | This type of fraction is called a recurring decimal written 0.333 . |
| 55 | LEARN One full turn is called a revolution . |
| 56 | 1 A full turn is called a revolution . |
| 57 | That word is called a vocation . |
| 58 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 59 | This type of cuboid is called a cube . |
| 60 | Professor Sharp points out that the English bird with a white tail is called a wheatear . |