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Example sentences of "[noun] was call the [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The circus built by Maxentius was called the Circus of Romulus and was 1620 feet long and 245 feet wide .
2	His coffee bar was called The Lollipop in tribute to the good ship rather than in acknowledgement of any goodies for sale within .
3	When the break for lunch was called the press girl came and fetched her , ‘ About ten minutes , okay ? ’
4	There had been no Darkness in the stranger , and Hawk recalled that one of the spirit warriors who would stand with the One-Eyed White Girl in the last battle was called the Man Who Rides Alone .
5	The work carried out by Raymond of Pennaforte was called the Liber Extra , being seen as an extra or additional volume to Gratian 's Decretum .
6	The place was called the Eagle like half the taverns in Germany .
7	( Though perhaps not quite so improbable : a hulk I once saw stranded in Port Stanley in the nearby Falkland Islands was called the Jhelum — and both Sutlej and Jhelum are names of rivers in the Punjab .
8	And another one at the watersi at the burnside was called the Burnside Dalvaine .
9	The event was called the Queen of the World and it was a far cry from the glitzy shows of today with their parades of scantily clad contestants .
10	The race was called the Mille Miglia because the distance of approximately 1000 miles was over the old Roman Mile .
11	Suragai had said that the race was called the Manchu and that this man was a good officer and an expert swordsman .
12	That first foundation was called the Basilica of the Apostles , this being changed later to the Roman Basilica because of its position beside the Porta Romana .
13	Outside Mike was calling the cows through the dark to morning milking ; Bung was howling , Ho joined him intermittently .
14	The other duet was called the Sisters Iris .
15	The instrument of war was the national State and it mattered little whether that State was called the beachhead of a world working class or simply an ordinary republic : the disciplines remained the same .
16	The small restaurant in Tewkesbury was called the Menagerie .
17	A despairing showman , whom Araminta announced to Auguste 's mystification was called The Professor , cursed the weather and his audience of six .
18	The box was called the treasury and was simply a chest , shaped like a trumpet , into which people put their offerings .
19	The show was called The Mary Whitehouse Experience ( which I later learned was in honour of the blue-nose lady who 's always sounding off about too much sex in the media ) .
20	The new school was called the Tiller Training School and Lyric Academy .
21	This medium was called the ether .
22	One of his first papers was called the neuro psychoses of defence , and defence meant fending something away from consciousness , what he later called repression .
23	It was adjourned until yesterday , but when the case was called the court clerk said he had no knowledge of the case being listed .
24	The combined algorithm was called the Predictor-Corrector Algorithm ( PCA ) .
25	Based on the combination of the name of a similar building in Venice , Santa Maria di Nazareth , and the patron saint of plague victims , San Lazzaro , the Milan building was called the Lazzaretto .
26	A NEW Finance Bill will be put before the House of Commons shortly after the Queen 's Speech on May 6 to include the parts of the Budget which were dropped when the election was called the day after Budget Day , including increases in inheritance tax allowances , backdated to the start of the current financial year .
27	This last sheaf was called the Policeman , and it was understood that no gleaner could enter the field while the Policeman was on guard .
28	From the sketch my reader will discover why this sea-cot was called the Boat-house : an upturned boat forms the roof , and under this roof is the but and the ben , the kitchen and the parlour , each boasting its own snug bed-box .