Example sentences of "[verb] [be] called the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been called the Dance of the Clouds . |
| 2 | This is particularly true of what has been called the functionalist theory of the family . |
| 3 | It has been called the flower of Spain . ’ |
| 4 | Luke has been called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | The 14 year old from Milton Keynes has been called the boy they ca n't lock up . |
| 6 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 7 | She has been called the mourning Athena , since the bent head suggests grief . |
| 8 | Those principles could well be applied to theology , which has been called the queen of the sciences . |
| 9 | The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos . |
| 10 | History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene . |
| 11 | War on the Unborn THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has consistently opposed abortion for convenience which has been called The War on the Unborn . |
| 12 | Next to Howard Hodgson , who has been called the tycoon of funeral directors . |
| 13 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 14 | The number of images per second needed to make them merge is called the flicker fusion frequency . |
| 15 | The ’ height ’ which it tries to minimize is called the machine 's energy , and is defined to be |
| 16 | The temperature at which a phase change occurs is called the transition temperature ( see section 3.2 ) . |
| 17 | The dimension measured is called the variate and may be any physical quantity . |
| 18 | The dimension measured is called the variate and may be any physical quantity . |
| 19 | On this occasion I personally moved from The Bun Shop to a pub I believe was called The Volunteer run by a well-known and aged bare-knuckle fighter from London 's East End called Joe Mullins . |
| 20 | The group to which I belong is called The Ring of Eight — there were originally eight members , although over the ten years since its formation our numbers have doubled . |
| 21 | The money which is invested or lent is called the principal . |
| 22 | The temperature at which water droplets begin to condense is called the dew-point — literally , the temperature below which dew will form . |
| 23 | A marvellous book that does is called The Traveller 's Handbook edited by Melissa Shales and published by Heinemann . |
| 24 | Typically , a laudatory essay he wrote was called The Painter of Modern Life on the subject of the illustrator Constantin Guys ; this gifted if minor artist was accurately targeted by Baudelaire as being in the mainstream of contemporary social and political life . |
| 25 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
| 26 | Well a lot of people have been called the Antichrist have n't they ? |
| 27 | He 's been called the boy they ca n't lock up . |
| 28 | This case provides the clearest indication of how the popular press may trade in deciding the appropriate nickname for a new case when the Star decided to focus special attention on this rape of a 6-year-old ‘ He 's been called The Beast , The Monster , the evil sex maniac … . |