Example sentences of "was called the " in BNC.
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1 | Typically , a laudatory essay he wrote was called The Painter of Modern Life on the subject of the illustrator Constantin Guys ; this gifted if minor artist was accurately targeted by Baudelaire as being in the mainstream of contemporary social and political life . |
2 | It was called the Scala . |
3 | Sir Robert said Mr Hale , who had worked for BR for 30 years and was called the captain of the ship in the Hidden report , had indicated he wished to take early retirement . |
4 | In the United Kingdom , Derry/Londonderry was the first and their game was called The Maiden City , presumably in order not to alienate that half of the community which did not approve of either the name Derry or Londonderry . |
5 | The method of resolution which begins with causes and demonstrates their consequent effects was called the ‘ method of proof or demonstration ’ ; so the direction or ‘ the order of proof or of things ’ goes ‘ from causes to effects ’ . |
6 | 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 ) . |
7 | The part of the convent in which I lived was called the noviceship . |
8 | Craig toured the province building support for what , when it was launched in 1972 , was called the Vanguard Movement . |
9 | His coffee bar was called The Lollipop in tribute to the good ship rather than in acknowledgement of any goodies for sale within . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | It was called the ‘ Scottish Enlightenment ’ , and it was fuelled by great minds and hearts . |
12 | The new school was opened in 1927 and was called the Central School and the new road was named Staveley Road , which was lined with flowering cherry trees , a great attraction for visitors every year during blossom time — one of the more notable visitors each year was the late Queen Mary , consort to the King at that time , George V. |
13 | One was called the People 's Commissariat of Internal Affairs , Narodnyi Kommissariat Vnutrennikh Del , ( NKVD ) , and the other the People 's Commissariat of State Security , Narodnyi Kommissariat Gosudarstvennoi Bezonasnosti ( NKGB ) . |
14 | It was called the Nuclear Industry Radioactive Waste Executive , or NIREX for short . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | While it is certain that it was always possible to approach Napoleon III via a courtier , the real intermediaries between the Emperor and the outside world , in so far as it necessitated his personal intervention , were those employed in what was called the Civil Cabinet . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | It was called The Graduate and , said Nicholson , they were ‘ auditioning everyone I was having lunch with ’ . |
20 | He was called the Butcher of Borneo during the war on account of the numbers of Japanese he despatched . |
21 | The graft had induced the host tissues adjacent to it to completely change their fate and form a second embryo in relation to the graft , and for this reason it was called the organizer . |
22 | When Yugoslavia came into existence in 1918 it was called the Kingdom of the Serbs , Croats , and Slovenes . |
23 | The waterway was called the New River , and it originally ran forty miles to Clerkenwell . |
24 | The outer shell of these bottle-shaped kilns was called the ‘ hovel ’ . |
25 | Until 1971 it was called the Campine Red Pied . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | The place was called the Eagle like half the taverns in Germany . |
29 | Adjoining Tommy Sparks was yet another pub , the street seemed to be full of them , this one was called The Catherine Wheel , an unusual name believed to have come from the eleventh century Knights of Saint Catherine of Mount Sinai . |
30 | The other duet was called the Sisters Iris . |