Example sentences of "[pron] [is] called the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 These meanings are considered to be organised in a cognitive system equivalent to a word memory or internal dictionary , which is called the lexicon .
2 Eh , you can start a game anywhere on this foot foot-line which is called the line , .
3 The magnetopause marks the inner boundary of the agitated region which itself is called the magnetosheath .
4 One is called the Overlay room , and anything you have in this room is repeated in all others .
5 One is called the House of Lords — they are men from the oldest and greatest families in the country .
6 And e if you look up there that extremely overbuilt area there is called the crown post truss .
7 It 's called the RICE principle .
8 It 's called The Road to Damascus , Chiros and Conversion and it 's a document signed by Christians from all sorts of countries , they all agree with the contents of this .
9 It 's called the evaluation of the function .
10 And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read .
11 From the viewpoint of this being and objective experiment , I would be a little bit worried about everyone knowing the nature of the experiment you had in mind , because , as you probably know , in industrial studies there 's a well-known effect , I think it 's called the Hawthorn effect , which merely by studying a group of people you change their behaviour and their output , simply because they know that you 're taking an interest in them and they 've got some idea of your expectations .
12 Well there is — it 's called the Enterprise Lakes and Mountains brochure .
13 It 's called the Hotel Leisure and Conference Centre , it 's actually based at Chorley or Charley if you come from that neck of the woods and er everybody that goes will be able to use the lagoon swimming pool er or challenge someone to a game of squash on one of our six courts .
14 It 's called The Dream .
15 It 's called the Hole in the Wall .
16 No one seems to know why it 's called the battle cross .
17 It 's called the Night Watcher , I think . ’
18 It 's called the quarry , is n't it ? ’ said Masklin .
19 It 's called the Tripyer Shield and it 's a local amateur thing Eccles and District and to win it it 's like winning the F A Cup and this G M B team that we started we lost about three or four matches and we started losing the players , so when you do n't lock the doors and you 'd end up with about seven players and you 'd think is it worth bothering ?
20 It 's called the law .
21 It 's called the glaxie , or something .
22 It 's called the class structure .
23 " It 's called the clunch field .
24 The Camon it 's called the Camomile Camomile Lawn .
25 It 's called the Sale of Goods Act .
26 and that it 's called the Salvation Army group
27 It 's called the laserball ; a sit in gyroscope that can rotate in any direction .
28 It 's called The Frying pan … and it 's already caused one surprised motorist to crash his car into a sign .
29 and this house facing the the part of Nottingham they call the forest it 's it 's not Nottingham Forest but it 's called the forest , it 's where they have the goose fair each year .
30 It 's called the ballroom !
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