Example sentences of "[noun] called the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modesty Blaise had lived in a penthouse , and Travis McGee lived on a boat called the Busted Flush . |
| 2 | In fact , the next paper I sent him was called , if I remember rightly , ‘ The Poet — the Public — the Faith ’ , and I had dispatched it to a review called The Green Quarterly , the only recollection of which I have is that it was quarterly and that it was green . |
| 3 | Got a club called the Big Bamboo on Wulff Road . |
| 4 | First , the Stock Exchange has set up a new market in company equities called the Unlisted Securities Market ( USM ) . |
| 5 | Main change introduced in the Esprit III programme is a new category of research called the Open Microsystems Initiative ( OMI ) . |
| 6 | Ten-forty-five on the commercial — some ghastly programme called The Human Angle . ’ |
| 7 | As Landsats 1–3 moved southwards over the illuminated side of the Earth an instrument called the Multispectral Scanner ( MSS ) measured the reflectance of the land or water surface along scan lines extending 92.5 km on either side of the sub-satellite track ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 8 | Most of the fighters follow the Iraqi Shia leader , Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim , who heads the coalition called the Supreme Assembly for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq . |
| 9 | In Spain , the party still propounding old-fashioned socialist policies — a coalition called the United Left , not the Socialist Party itself — is tearing itself acrimoniously apart . |
| 10 | It 's collected into books called The Great Lovers ' Valentine World Anthology of Love Poetry or whatever . |
| 11 | As a result , we get books called The British System of Government or , more fashionably , The British Political System , where politics is added to institutions . |
| 12 | This fact becomes clear if one imagines an institution called The Anarchic University or Polytechnic ( some academics might think it is a fair description of their own ) . |
| 13 | In his theory of general relativity Einstein had showed that gravitational fields made clocks run slow , an effect called the gravitational red-shift . |
| 14 | Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes . |
| 15 | The question was based on an ancient Jewish law called the Leverite law ( Deuteronomy 25:5–6 ) . |
| 16 | It was in part to answer these questions that the California State Legislature in the Autumn of 1976 passed a law called the Natural Death Act . |
| 17 | So our circumnavigation of Hascosay continues , past Oxnageo and the stack called the Grey-bearded Man , through the gap inside the notorious reef called the Baas of Hascosay , the graveyard of a number of ships , and back to our moorings in Mid Yell . |
| 18 | The images in which researchers are most interested are from a sensor on board the vehicle called the thematic mapper . |
| 19 | He devised a special programme , teaching the girls a new song and dance called The Little Gypsies and this earned their usual encore . |
| 20 | Opposite the Cages was what the eagles called the Three Island Pond where ducks and flamingos were kept . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I work with a publication called the New Internationalist . ’ |
| 22 | There 's a nice little pub called the Eight Bells in Yardarm Street , running into the square . |
| 23 | He provides the guided tour of the ground First Division facilities , Northern League friendliness before adjourning for a couple of halves in a town centre pub called the Black Adder , run by former Ipswich star Alan Brazil . |
| 24 | He took them by a tortuous route to a pub called The Black Dog , which made a change from horses and pookas , until she recollected uneasily that a black dog was one of the devil 's traditional earthly disguises . |
| 25 | Poor old Pengam Moors , the one-time Cardiff Airport which was originally known by the curious name of Splott , is also extinct and remembered only by a pub called The Old Airport . |
| 26 | There 's one outpost of northern civilization in the heart of the city centre — a fine Sam Smith 's pub called the Three Goats Heads . |
| 27 | Having agreed that this was a good idea , David and I went down to a pub called The Three Tuns , which is in Beckenham High Street . |
| 28 | The heart of the Swaledale mining field is a vein called the Friarfold Vein running from the neighbourhood of Keld across to Arkengarthdale . |
| 29 | Following studies by Eastern Region 's engineers , a new tracklaying strategy was introduced in 1987 whereby — with the use of a new machine called the Dynamic Track Stabiliser — tracks could be handed back by 06.00 on Monday morning at the full 125mph line speed , eliminating the need for a temporary speed restriction and associated recovery time allowance . |
| 30 | MILLIONS of black South Africans went on strike yesterday in what anti-apartheid movements called the biggest stoppage in the country 's history . |