Example sentences of "called [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 They have erm what 's called the players ' theatre , I do n't know whether you 've heard of it at all erm they belong , they 're members of it .
2 He was meeting Gilbert Verrall , the presenter of a TV series called The Footsteps of Time .
3 Each worked from a permanent district headquarters called the kachcheri ( Map 1 .
4 And in my diary I 've got one for tomorrow night , for an organization called the Judges Guild in Leicester , somewhere in the Road area .
5 I think they meet in the Road area and it 's called the Judges Guild .
6 These two steps are called the components of X along x and y .
7 Then follows the day of the full moon , purnimā , and the full-moon festival , called the pai h .
8 The Birds , was n't she that film called The Birds
9 The rest of the world — outside the system — is called the surroundings .
10 Er Oh that was er We called the things that supported the We called them lairgs .
11 The president of the transport authority called the buses ‘ junk ’ .
12 called The Grapes round there , is there ?
13 The underlying ethos of the allocation of such status is that those who are most pure — the Brahmin or priest caste are superior to all others , whilst those who are least pure sometimes called the untouchables — are inferior to all other castes .
14 The jewellery and antique shops of the famous winding alleyways called the Lanes continue to serve discriminating tastes .
15 The first is to change what is called the earnings disregard .
16 They set up a new organisation called the Sub-Tenants ' Committee , which would campaign ‘ not on political but on humanitarian grounds ’ .
17 Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms .
18 One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place .
19 ‘ It 's called the Blues , ’ the Doctor shouted , taking a pause for breath .
20 Called the Reptilons , these huge , scaly fiends have chained up the human inhabitants ( these by happy coincidence are the blonde bimbos ) .
21 They were the sort of things too which the parent generation owned , those old people that Adam , until Rufus laughed at him , had inadvertently called the grown-ups : sheets and blankets and knives and forks and pots and pans and more complicated appurtenances of living that if one ever thought about at all one supposed one would have to get together for oneself eventually .
22 It will use women 's magazines and a booklet called The Beginners ' Guide to highlight the ease and variety of preparations .
23 Incidentally , on the next page it carried a demo tape review of an up-and-coming Hull band called The Housemartins whom it dubbed , ‘ Fresh , crisp and spiky . ’
24 I was staying at a very nice hotel called The Swans Nest which allows dogs .
25 Fourteen women have just landed parts in a play called The Witches .
26 These mountains converge in the high mountainous land to the south called the Vaults .
27 But erm , it was suggested about a year or so before I left , that I might take what was called The Gardeners Scholarship to erm The Royal College for the Blind , which in those days was at erm Upper Norwood S E nineteen and erm so erm I had no objections , I did n't , I did n't see any future at all in it anyway , but erm I took this erm scholarship examination , went up to the R N C to work erm some papers and to be interviewed and erm , much to my surprise they erm offered me one of these scholarships which was worth forty pounds a year for three years in the Commercial Department of the College which was an innovation really as erm primarily a College of Music for erm blind students and erm so off I went to the R N C of sixteen and erm did my three year course and got erm some R S A certificates and erm was reasonably successful I suppose I , perhaps I was n't as diligent as I should have been .
28 On July 12 , 1989 , the Grey Panthers , formerly a group of some 25,000 members within the Greens reflecting the interests of older citizens , split away and set itself up as a new political party called the Greys ( die Grauen ) .
29 Another popular novel called the Gospels into question by suggesting the existence of a new corpus of first-hand scriptural accounts — and this book was made into a television mini-series .
30 The White House press secretary , Dee Dee Myers , called the remarks ‘ unfortunate . ’
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