Example sentences of "[be] called [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
2 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
3 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
4 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
5 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
6 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
7 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
8 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
9 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
10 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
11 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
12 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
13 | Such a payment has often been called a voluntary payment . |
14 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
15 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
16 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
17 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
18 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
19 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
20 | 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 . |
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 | 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 . |
23 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
24 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
25 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
28 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
29 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
30 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |