Example sentences of "[verb] [be] called the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dermatology hospital which has been called the best in the country has opened in Oxford . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
| 5 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 6 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 7 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 8 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 9 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
| 10 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 13 | The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences . |
| 14 | He appears to have had a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle similar to E , but the later part of his work is filled with romance , and might seem to belong to what has been called the twelfth-century fictionalising history best exemplified by Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Britonum . |
| 15 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |
| 16 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 17 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
| 18 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
| 19 | ‘ It has been called the quickest personal growth experience you can have . |
| 20 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 21 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 22 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 23 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 24 | They also detest being called the handicapped . |
| 25 | The temperature at which this occurs is called the boiling point of the liquid . |
| 26 | Just before we go we are going to hear a recording of a song that 's been referred to which I think is called the greatest love of all which I 'm told we 'll all know by heart er this time next year hmm erm anyway on that note if I may thank you very , very much indeed and I leave you with best wishes for a highly , highly successful birthday year . |
| 27 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 28 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
| 29 | I , for one , have been called the dumbest person in Britain . |
| 30 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |