Example sentences of "[noun sg] was call the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was called the ultraviolet catastrophe " ultraviolet " because that means high frequencies , and " catastrophe " for a reason too obvious to need elaboration . |
| 2 | Yes , I went on that voyage as cook , and the beauty of it was the boat was called the Happy Days ! |
| 3 | His coffee bar was called The Lollipop in tribute to the good ship rather than in acknowledgement of any goodies for sale within . |
| 4 | When the break for lunch was called the press girl came and fetched her , ‘ About ten minutes , okay ? ’ |
| 5 | There had been no Darkness in the stranger , and Hawk recalled that one of the spirit warriors who would stand with the One-Eyed White Girl in the last battle was called the Man Who Rides Alone . |
| 6 | The place was called the Eagle like half the taverns in Germany . |
| 7 | My first band was called The Original Cosmic Egg and we just did Hawkwind and Sex Pistols covers . |
| 8 | The waterway was called the New River , and it originally ran forty miles to Clerkenwell . |
| 9 | This group was called the ‘ Hwarang-do ’ , which means Way of the Flowering Manhood . |
| 10 | And another one at the watersi at the burnside was called the Burnside Dalvaine . |
| 11 | The event was called the Queen of the World and it was a far cry from the glitzy shows of today with their parades of scantily clad contestants . |
| 12 | The race was called the Mille Miglia because the distance of approximately 1000 miles was over the old Roman Mile . |
| 13 | Suragai had said that the race was called the Manchu and that this man was a good officer and an expert swordsman . |
| 14 | That first foundation was called the Basilica of the Apostles , this being changed later to the Roman Basilica because of its position beside the Porta Romana . |
| 15 | My strongest instinct was to call the whole thing off without delay ; the end result would be the same and anyway I was n't feeling very strong . |
| 16 | In medieval times , this part of the wine growing area was called the ‘ League of Chianti ’ . |
| 17 | In the United Kingdom , Derry/Londonderry was the first and their game was called The Maiden City , presumably in order not to alienate that half of the community which did not approve of either the name Derry or Londonderry . |
| 18 | The other duet was called the Sisters Iris . |
| 19 | The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same . |
| 20 | That state was called the In Ovo , and on the other side of it lay four worlds , the so-called Reconciled Dominions . |
| 21 | A despairing showman , whom Araminta announced to Auguste 's mystification was called The Professor , cursed the weather and his audience of six . |
| 22 | The box was called the treasury and was simply a chest , shaped like a trumpet , into which people put their offerings . |
| 23 | The show was called The Mary Whitehouse Experience ( which I later learned was in honour of the blue-nose lady who 's always sounding off about too much sex in the media ) . |
| 24 | The new school was called the Tiller Training School and Lyric Academy . |
| 25 | This medium was called the ether . |
| 26 | It was adjourned until yesterday , but when the case was called the court clerk said he had no knowledge of the case being listed . |
| 27 | The combined algorithm was called the Predictor-Corrector Algorithm ( PCA ) . |
| 28 | Based on the combination of the name of a similar building in Venice , Santa Maria di Nazareth , and the patron saint of plague victims , San Lazzaro , the Milan building was called the Lazzaretto . |
| 29 | Europe 's laudable ambition also to become a gleaming citadel of environmental protection ( for which the European Parliament was calling the other day ) may have the same effect . |
| 30 | The proposal that gained widest support was called the steady state theory . |