Example sentences of "[noun] called the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember my first-ever game , it was at a place called The Golden Sands Holiday Camp , and they had one snooker table , right next to the miniature railway — it used to be very off-putting when you were playing in the holiday camp competition . |
| 2 | At a point called the optimum LAI the maximum crop growth rate is attained . |
| 3 | They said they were offering a new short introductory course called the general SVQ in care . |
| 4 | A MSS instrument like the one carried by Landsats 1–3 and described earlier is carried by the newer Landsats ; in addition , they have a more modern scanner called the Thematic Mapper or TM . |
| 5 | Look out for the CET range of products , including an ingenious rubber bone called The Dental Kong , £10 , and the Nylabone dental range , £2-£4 , available from better pet shops and veterinary centres . |
| 6 | Today 's reading is the first part of an American novel called The Great Gilly Hopkins written by Katherine Paterson . |
| 7 | She remembers being in a kids ' dance troupe called the Wee Winkies when she was a seven-year-old in Chicago , she enjoyed a run of successes on the TV talent show Star Search , and she was eventually spotted by Prince dancing in a Los Angeles nightclub . |
| 8 | MacCulloch ( 1819 ) , and later , Murchison and Geikie ( 1861 ) , provided the first accounts of the geology of Lewis and Harris and the other islands which constitute the north east-south west chain of islands called the Outer Hebrides , which lies some 70 km west of the northern Scottish mainland . |
| 9 | Burun was sitting on a chest which had been used to carry the food , and his second wife , Kiku , whom men called the Regal Lily , was standing behind him dressing his hair while he admired himself in a hand-held mirror . |
| 10 | For instance , in 1940 a British author of fairly conventional detective stories , Henry Wade ( who was in private life Sir Aubrey Fletcher , a magistrate and son of a full-time Metropolitan magistrate , and thus not unacquainted with police work ) wrote a book called The Lonely Magdalen , telling the story of a murder investigation seen largely from the point of view of the police officers conducting it . |
| 11 | So that 's what his friends and/or employees called the unpleasant Mr. Preston . |