Example sentences of "called the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there is a fall-back position and that is that the European Community have a directive called the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive that requires that before a major project of this type is put through there must be the fullest public consultation . |
| 2 | This vibrates , again at the same frequency as the vocal cords , and the vibrations pass along three bones , which span the middle ear like an arch , to another membrane called the oval window . |
| 3 | It has been recognised for over a century that the internal anal sphincter relaxes in response to rectal distension , a phenomenon called the rectanal inhibitory reflex . |
| 4 | It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim . |
| 5 | It is this alternative that is called the competing behaviour ( CB ) . |
| 6 | The father found him a ready substitute for his own dead infant son , Philip , and often called the young writer ‘ Phil ’ . |
| 7 | There was a book called The Young Visitors that once made a lot of money . ’ |
| 8 | A fee is collected by the PRS from the management of the venue and this is put into a fund called the General Distribution pool . |
| 9 | It was also rumoured that Lloyd George might advocate protectionist policies and Baldwin make have called the general election and fought it on protectionist policies in order to undermine any such move by Lloyd George . |
| 10 | Office of Population Censuses and Surveys ( The General Register Office in St Catherine 's House , London ) A central register of births , deaths and the solemnization and registration of marriages , was begun on 1 July 1837 and was called The General Register Office . |
| 11 | Realization dawned only in 1915 , when a comparatively young theoretical physicist called Albert Einstein published the paper that is now generally called the General Theory of Relativity . |
| 12 | It 's called the general formula . |
| 13 | This is called the general gas law or sometimes the combined gas law . |
| 14 | They said they were offering a new short introductory course called the general SVQ in care . |
| 15 | Since the assumptions we have made are the same as those in the simple Keynesian model and the Keynesian theory of money , the IS-LM model derived above is sometimes called the general Keynesian model . |
| 16 | The third category is called the weak nuclear force , which is responsible for radioactivity and which acts on all matter particles of spin 1/2 , but not on particles of spin 0 , 1 , or 2 , such as photons and gravitons . |
| 17 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 18 | The Cathedral of the Assumption ( Dormition ) , now called the Uspensky Cathedral , was built in 1158 but rebuilt after a fire in 1183 . |
| 19 | In his speech to the UN on Sept. 17 , the South Korean Foreign Affairs Minister , Lee Sang Ock , called the simultaneous entry to the UN " a giant first step forward " towards eventual reunification through confidence-building dialogue and co-operation within the UN framework . |
| 20 | Again , we have evidence from fieldwork about the functions of these alternants : one man of 27 commented that during his years away from Northern Ireland , he had stopped using what I have called the in-group alternants of the ( pull ) set . |
| 21 | The optimum linking of the various stages is called the critical path . |
| 22 | This is called the critical temperature , Tc . |
| 23 | The critical temperature of C02 is 304 K. The isotherm at this temperature is called the critical isotherm . |
| 24 | First of all note that the vapour pressure curve terminates at point C. This is called the critical point of water . |
| 25 | This is called the critical solution temperature . |
| 26 | The composition at this point is called the critical composition . |
| 27 | In 1921 , Parker created a pen that broke all the rules , officially called the Duofold but known as the ‘ Big Red ’ . |
| 28 | Landsat 4 has another sensor called the multispectral scanner which is a copy of that carried on earlier members of the Landsat family . |
| 29 | As Landsats 1–3 moved southwards over the illuminated side of the Earth an instrument called the Multispectral Scanner ( MSS ) measured the reflectance of the land or water surface along scan lines extending 92.5 km on either side of the sub-satellite track ( Figure 5.2 ) . |
| 30 | His own diagnostic machine called the Dielectric Diagnostic Analyser , employs computerised biofeedback techniques to determine energy disturbances at cellular level . |