Example sentences of "so called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keg beers — so called because they are kept in sealed and pressurised containers called kegs — are therefore injected with carbon dioxide and connected to cylinders of CO 2 ; in the pub cellar . |
| 2 | In amnesia , as in many other so called neuropsychological syndromes ( developmental dyslexia , schizophrenia , Wemicke 's aphasia etcetera ) there is probably no uniform pattern in nature waiting to reveal itself . |
| 3 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 4 | It is widely believed that Mr Holmes a Court , the so called Perth predator , is keen to buy Dalgety 's extensive Australian land interests . |
| 5 | As a home service company , or so called ‘ industrial ’ life insurer , it has specialised in arranging policies and collecting premiums on a door-to-door basis , with its sales force collecting small amounts of money on comparatively small life insurance policies . |
| 6 | This so called sovereignty amounts to a choice between a continued run on the pound and an interest-rate-induced slump . |
| 7 | In New Zealand 's ’ King Country' — so called because of the Maori kings who fought a guerrilla war against the settling English — Maori lads fresh from rounding up the droves of merino sheep from the bush clad hills would have a night out in the one horse town and go to the fleapit . |
| 8 | Smock or frock mills are so called because their shape is said to resemble a man dressed in a smock . |
| 9 | Do you have problems with obesity , he asked the steward on the Desert Wind , the train so called not because of dietary angst but because it crosses the Mojave on the way from LA to Chicago . |
| 10 | ‘ The Hagge ’ , as it is referred to locally , is built of Millstone Grit , so called because being hard and tough it was used to crush the corn in Pennine village mills . |
| 11 | There is an entrance to Frampton Court in the long wall along Rosamund 's Green ( so called after Fair Rosamund Clifford , who was born at the half-timbered farm across the green and whose co-lateral descendants still live at the court ) . |
| 12 | Kelling Hall was Maufe 's first country house , built on the daring ‘ Butterfly ’ plan , so called on account of its shape . |
| 13 | The category of killings which has come to be known as involuntary manslaughter has nothing to do with involuntariness , properly so called . |
| 14 | This is the most familiar group , so called because many have a dark ring or zone on the foliage . |
| 15 | Irenaeus asserted the unity of the two Testaments in his Refutation of the Knowledge falsely so called , a work principally directed against those heretics standing close to orthodox Christianity and therefore offering a dangerous threat to orthodox congregations . |
| 16 | At that time adoption with contact had received only scant attention in the social work literature and the so called ‘ clean break ’ approach was still in its supremacy . |
| 17 | Although medical education may pay some attention to the social sciences in the pre-clinical curriculum , the highest priority is still overwhelmingly given to the so called ‘ hard sciences ’ . |
| 18 | ( 1970 ) found identified by clinicians as characteristic of healthy women were : being more submissive , less adventurous , less objective , more emotional , more excitable in minor crises — strange characteristics for a so called healthy person ! |
| 19 | The company is also involved in a project which is intended to ‘ bring school science to life ’ in the local community by using the so called Ciba-Geigy ‘ bicycle pack ’ , which provides primary school teachers with ideas for classroom science activities linked to the theme of the bicycle . |
| 20 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 21 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 22 | The ‘ Q.R. ’ was the Quiet Room , where specific researches were carried out — so called because of its distance from , and dissimilarity to , the Decoding Room where the clattering , devilish Enigma machine decrypted the intercepts received from nearby wireless stations . |
| 23 | To the north the Celts were arising in central Europe , chiefly expanding northward , but also crossing the Alps to replace the Golasecca culture around the lakes and founding the Gaulish city of Mediolanum , so called because of its position in the centre of the Lombardy plain . |
| 24 | The most important building was the Broletto or Palazzo della Ragione , the Righteous House , so called because the judges for both civil and penal cases sat there . |
| 25 | There is a room of ceramics , including pieces from the Miessen , Doccia and Capodimonte factories , and then the Black Room , so called because its walls were originally covered with ebony inlaid with ivory . |
| 26 | In the courtyard is the Madonna of the Mouse , so called because of the mouse sitting on the shoulder of the baby . |
| 27 | The view supported in these chapters is closest to the traditional view emphasizing the so called organic relations between an individual and his community . |
| 28 | The so called ‘ new man ’ of the nineties has taken a conscious decision to split childcare with his working wife/partner . |
| 29 | Vic Wilcox has now , strictly speaking , left the city of Rummidge and passed into an area known as the Dark Country — so called because of the pall of smoke that hung over it , and the film of coaldust and soot that covered it , in the heyday of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 30 | It was obviously not made clear to you that the so called Collateral Agreement should have been signed ‘ Under Seal ’ , by which I presume is meant in front of a Notary Public . |