Example sentences of "[pron] are call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the heart 's own oxygen supply is not taken from the blood which is continually being pumped through it to service the rest of the body , but from separate little arteries which are called coronary arteries . |
| 2 | We have now moved on from looking at syllables to looking at words , and we will consider certain well-known English words that can be pronounced in two different ways , which are called strong forms and weak forms . |
| 3 | DNA has effects upon bodies , upon eye colour , hair crinkliness , strength of aggressive behaviour and thousands of other attributes , all of which are called phenotypic effects . |
| 4 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 5 | This equation and the preceding one are called metric equations . |
| 6 | The reported after-tax earnings in the case where no dividends are distributed are called nil earnings , while in the case where dividends are distributed they are called net earnings . |
| 7 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 8 | Because Landsat MSS and TM images are numerical in nature they are called digital images . |
| 9 | Danni and Kylie swear by them , they are the latest in hair accessories , they are called Flexi Combs and they are available from Boots at a mere 95p ! |
| 10 | They are called endothermic compounds . |
| 11 | They are called pseudo-random numbers and most computers have built-in functions which will generate sequences of such numbers . |
| 12 | If ν = 0 they are called fundamental bands . |
| 13 | In Nigeria they are called Medical Extension Officers as they feel that they are not assistants as such but great contributors to health care . |
| 14 | They are called public parks . |
| 15 | Equations like these each form a straight line graph so they are called linear equations . |
| 16 | In 1981–82 , courses were running in some twenty centres catering for about 800 trainees ; they attended for about 80 hours , usually on day release , and their programme consisted of training in fundamental skills in four main areas : what are called Instructional Skills ; Counselling and Caring ; Evaluation ; and Core Competencies . |
| 17 | These must be what are called hypnogogic images , the strangely potent montages which come at a mind already lapsed into a sort of sleep . |
| 18 | This is , in fact , possible in terms of what are called closed set items and open set items . |
| 19 | Instead , each oscillator must have some minimum amount of what are called zero-point fluctuations and a nonzero energy . |
| 20 | Powicke believed that ‘ historians incur a grave danger of misconception if they divorce what are called political tendencies from the interplay of personal relations ’ . |
| 21 | This would be detected by loops buried in the road at what are called key junctions and the data passed on to a computer which would issue the bills later . |
| 22 | These animals have what are called lateral line organs along their head and body . |
| 23 | The boolean functions which can be applied to a single bit position can then be extended to what are called logical operations on the whole word . |
| 24 | However , some computers ( such as the IBM 370 range ) have what are called logical comparison instructions , which turn out to be unsigned fixed-point binary comparisons . |
| 25 | Where the Soviet Union falls down is in the production of what are called coarse grains — maize ( corn ) principally , but including barley , oats , rye , sorghum and other grains apart from rice . |
| 26 | The general relativity theory of gravity and the Maxwell theory of electrodynamics were what are called classical theories ; that is , they involved quantities that were continuously variable and that could , in principle at least , be measured to arbitrary accuracy . |
| 27 | One such possibility is what are called chaotic boundary conditions . |
| 28 | Recognising this problem led scholars in the area to make the first serious use of what are called longitudinal studies . |
| 29 | These annual ‘ credit approvals ’ are split between what are called basic credit approvals ( BCAs ) , which are total figures for each service and supplementary credit approvals ( SCAs ) which relate to particular projects . |
| 30 | One of the techniques of cohesion ( see Chapter 5 , p. 100 ) is that instead of repeating a phrase , it is possible to use what are called grammatical words like pronouns " it " , " he " , " she " , " they " , or demonstratives like " this " . |