Example sentences of "is call " in BNC.
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| 31 | The ‘ Red Caliph ’ , as he is called , wears a beard shaped like a crescent moon . |
| 32 | ‘ There must come a time when it is called to a halt , ’ Lord Donaldson said . |
| 33 | His wife Fanny is appalled by this unreconstructed maleness which is called a ‘ little murder ’ . |
| 34 | On the other hand , it will be argued that the large number of arrests points to a malaise of such dimensions that it can not completely be dealt with by a police investigation and that a wider inquiry is called for . |
| 35 | Mr Vargas , whose group is called the Liberty Movement , needs to win more than half of the votes next 8 April to secure the presidency . |
| 36 | The Employee Development and Assistance Programme , as it is called , is part of the campaign to win greater ‘ employee involvement ’ . |
| 37 | Applications for Barclays New Stages , as the project is called , must be in by 31 January . |
| 38 | This is called reactive armour . |
| 39 | The one of most interest to physicists is called the Z or Z-naught . |
| 40 | An appeal can also be made if the council takes more than eight weeks to come to a decision — this is called an appeal against non-determination . |
| 41 | Easton station operates four sections ( what in other police forces is called a ‘ relief ’ ) , each working in turn one of three shifts , with the fourth week off . |
| 42 | The societal divisions and problems of relations between the police and the community which this style of policing is called upon to ameliorate in Northern Ireland are more severe than is normally the case , which makes the RUC 's implementation and operation of community policing of special interest and previous neglect of this aspect of policing in the province a significant oversight . |
| 43 | This is called Statutory Sick Pay ( SSP ) . |
| 44 | This is called niche marketing which is a familiar concept in all forms of retailing . |
| 45 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 46 | Regardless of whether it is called a ‘ top down ’ model or an elective dictatorship , the formal concentration of political authority in Britain is remarkable . |
| 47 | If , on the other hand , any centralized system with a single head , controlling a defined territory , is called a state , it is then possible to give examples of ‘ states ’ where no obvious dominant class exists . |
| 48 | In Norway , I tell him , the orca is called spekkhogger , flesh ripper . |
| 49 | Older Kashmiri women stick to the traditional Kashmiri form where the Kamiz ( or the Kurta as it is called in Kashmir ) is rather long , usually with a distinct waist , and the trousers are full , almost bulbous , with a deep and stiff cuff at the ankle . |
| 50 | Since the environmental rhythm is giving a time-cue to the organism it is called a zeitgeber ( from the German , Zeit — time ; geber — to give ) . |
| 51 | The phenomenon is called the ‘ post-lunch dip ’ — a reference to the dip in mental performance that occurs then . |
| 52 | The effect of such ‘ nocturnal surges ’ in sex hormones , as the increased release of these hormones is called , might be to increase the sexual drive at night . |
| 53 | After lunch a town patrol is called to meet up with today 's ‘ Wire ’ patrol at Gatow Ranges . |
| 54 | The first part of any AMF(L) exercise is What is called ‘ deterrent operations ’ . |
| 55 | Where the barn adjoined the dwelling it is called a laithe house , and often the stable and cow-house were built beyond the barn as part of the same range . |
| 56 | This ‘ lift ’ , as it is called , enabled the foot of the doors to clear the manure in the yard and kept pigs off the threshing floor when the doors were open . |
| 57 | The Pastor smiled a little wryly , ‘ It is called a unitary family , now , and unitary families are under attack in certain quarters , but the family is at the heart of our religion and our civilisation . |
| 58 | ‘ It is called August-Bebel-Platz now , ’ Erika said . |
| 59 | Tolkien 's letter reveals that in the original draft of the story the hero is called not Ransom but Unwin ( 'The latter detail could I am sure be altered' ) . |
| 60 | Fortunately , her GP was well aware of RSI and quickly diagnosed what is called de Quervain 's tenosynovitis . |