Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [be] call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lysosome is called a ‘ suicide bag ’ said Prof Mayer , not only because it digests any waste materials by the use of powerful enzymes but also because this cocktail can kill off the cell . |
| 2 | ( 4 ) Where under a contract of sale the property in the goods is transferred from the seller to the buyer the contract is called a sale . |
| 3 | Sometimes , the payment is called a ‘ contribution to the tenant 's fitting-out costs ' , but this does not alter the treatment . |
| 4 | The resulting picture on the monitor is called a false-colour composite image . |
| 5 | If the consultant withdraws and the residents come under the care of a general practitioner , who might from time to time call in a psychiatrist , the home is called a nursing home in the community . |
| 6 | The machine is called a ‘ Fourdrinier ’ machine and mimics the hand process in a continuous conveyor belt fashion with wet pulp going on at one end and a dry roll of paper at the other . |
| 7 | The path taken by the stimulus is called a reflex arc . |
| 8 | So the judge was calling a witness who was an important link in the prosecution case and was thereby assisting in making that case . |
| 9 | When a record turns out to be a synonym , there are two alternatives : these are to store the synonym at once , in which case the process is called a one-pass load , or to load it in two passes , which is called a two-pass load . |
| 10 | If e = √2 the asymptotes are at right angles and the curve is called a rectangular hyperbola . |
| 11 | If any descriptive word is used at all , it is usually " valuer " , and the procedure is called a " valuation " or an " appraisement " , and not " expert determination " or a " reference to an expert " . |
| 12 | If the direction is reversed the defect is called a fold , while if the defect causes neither displacement nor reversal of direction but only a local disordering of the zigzag configuration it is called a kink . |
| 13 | That is why the game is called a dilemma , why it seems so maddeningly paradoxical , and why it has even been proposed that there ought to be a law against it . |
| 14 | The writ is called a subpoena , because it requires him to appear upon pain of forfeiting a sum of money . |
| 15 | The place or hall where one trains is called a ‘ dojo ’ ; the instructor is called a ‘ sensei ’ , which is Japanese for ‘ teacher ’ . |
| 16 | They may , for example , all be functions of time , so that we must write A = A(t) ; they may be functions of a parameter , typified by unc when the elements are rational integral functions of{ gl } , the matrix is called a lambda-matrix ; or the elements may themselves ( especially for vectors ) be independent variables . |
| 17 | Mulvey combined this Freudian explanation of pleasure in looking with the theory of the mirror stage in the work of Jacques Lacan , in which the child 's first recognition of itself in the mirror is called a misrecognition , because what the child sees in the mirror is an idealised whole and rounded image at odds with the child 's diffuse bodily experience of itself at that stage in development — it can not yet control its movements , let alone its environment . |
| 18 | The legend in the lower left corner of the map is called a default option . |
| 19 | STALEMATE : when a king is not in check and when his side can not make a legal move , the position is called a stalemate and the game is a draw . |
| 20 | When a particularly close rapport develops between a human and an animal , such that the animal will follow its owner through the forest , the animal is called a batiti , ‘ pet ’ . |
| 21 | Each of the squares on the screen is called a PIXEL , short for picture cell . |
| 22 | Apparently we 've got a mistake on the back of that form , that it referred to a noncompliance report , on the back , which is referring to the front but the front was called a quick-fix report |
| 23 | When all the bonds are fully displayed , the formula is called a displayed formula . |
| 24 | The material was called a ‘ benn ’ and the winner wore it around his waist as the Captain 's badge of office . |
| 25 | The obvious way to resolve the dispute was to call a Council to decide among them — though such a course of action might be taken to imply the supremacy of a Council over a pope . |
| 26 | A list of instructions for a computer is called a program ( this is standard American spelling , and it is also recommended by the Oxford Dictionary : the alternative , " programme " , commonly used in Britain , appears to be a Frenchified affectation ) . |
| 27 | Such a rule is called a weighted pattern . |
| 28 | The internal representation of a skill is called a schema . |
| 29 | The pupa of a butter-fly is called a chrysalis . |
| 30 | A force which , as in this case , varies across a body is called a differential force , and a differential gravitational force is called a tidal force . |