Example sentences of "[be] call the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
| 2 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 5 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 6 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 11 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
| 12 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
| 15 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 16 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
| 17 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |
| 18 | These levels are called the 10-year flood , the 50-year flood and the 100-year flood , respectively , and they are used by engineers and planners in the design of structures such as bridges and dams . |
| 19 | And that is the reason I think why we are called the dirty man of Europe . |
| 20 | These platforms stretching round the continents are called the continental shelf . |
| 21 | So came what I am calling the liberal state . |
| 22 | We think , perhaps , too much of the sedimentary environment , and not enough of what may be called the geophysical environment that can ensure their preservation . |
| 23 | However , the meeting , representing 33 different organizations , voted to establish a body " without rigid structures " rather than a party , to be called the Democratic Choice Bloc . |
| 24 | From another point of view it may be called the inner shrine . |
| 25 | When we visited the big open-air retail market in the upper town at Montpellier , there was an ordinary enough little charcuterie-épicerie stall offering the ingredients of what might be called the small change of French cookery , but to our English eyes it looked particularly inviting and interesting . |
| 26 | If the eighteenth century is often described by architectural historians as the great age of the English house , the Victorian period might equally well be called the great age of the English home . |
| 27 | The exertions of all the different kinds of labour that are directly or indirectly involved in making it ; together with the abstinences or rather the waitings required for saving the capital used in making it : all these efforts and sacrifices together will be called the real cost of production of the commodity . |
| 28 | Peter Rogers , however , is adamant that neither of then could be called the real star of the ‘ Carry Ons ’ . |
| 29 | Nicholas Stavrogin has arrived during the summer months of 1870s , and has established himself as the one ‘ who might really be called the chief character of the novel ’ . |
| 30 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |