Example sentences of "[pron] is called the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second-rank tensor can easily be constructed by contraction : which is called the Ricci tensor . |
| 2 | Mm , see this is a very difficult one to understand , it takes a lot of er working out , you see then he 's also applied , approached the city you see which is called the same thing is n't it ? |
| 3 | Its inverse is called the deformation gradient , and itself is called the inverse deformation gradient . |
| 4 | Because there are three parts to this definition it is called the tripartite definition or the tripartite account ; it defines propositional knowledge , knowledge that p ; it does not define knowledge by acquaintance as in ‘ a knows James ’ nor knowledge-how , e.g. knowledge how to ride a bicycle , unless these can be shown to reduce to knowledge-that . |
| 5 | The cone is drawn with and marks out all the possible light paths through P 1 ; it is called the light cone at P 1 . |
| 6 | It is called the Red House because it is built of deep red brick , an unusual medium for a man of means , who was normally expected to build in something nobler . |
| 7 | Sometimes it is called the laminar sub-layer , but that is less accurate as it contains large velocity fluctuations ; and are free to rise more rapidly from the wall than . |
| 8 | In America it is called the thick-billed murre , and it is closely related to the common guillemot which breeds in large numbers on the cliffs of Shetland . |
| 9 | The matrix unc is of very great importance , not only in studies of the intrinsic properties of A , but also in dynamical and other applications it is called the characteristic matrix of A. |
| 10 | In the common case of a symmetric section , the load impedance that renders the input impedance equal to it is called the characteristic impedance . |
| 11 | I accept that it is called the National Water Sports Centre but from the attitude of some you would think angling was not included . |
| 12 | It is called the Blind Person 's Allowance . |
| 13 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 14 | I should like to see the Home Office introduce what is called the side-handled baton . |
| 15 | Grammar , secondary modern and technical schools in England and Wales ( and , with different terminology , in Scotland and Northern Ireland — see below ) form what is called the tripartite system , though in reality technical schools have never existed in large numbers . |
| 16 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 17 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 18 | So the climate conforms almost totally — to the east of the Date Line — to what is called the planetary weather system , the theoretical system of winds and pressures that would exist if the earth was a near-perfect spheroid unencumbered with continents , mountain chains and other complicating nuisances . |
| 19 | I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman er of course these buildings are all related to the orders were discussing in order that M E Ps can be elected in the first place and is it not interesting to note that if agreement ca n't be reached as indeed is the position of the moment er in u what is called the European union over where actually the parliament is going to sit . |
| 20 | There is little said about what is called the messianic role of TM in the book , apart from a token two pages . |
| 21 | we always we always go to Spalding well not always but a lot of the time we go to Spalding and I always have what is called the raw vegetable dip it 's all vegetables , you name it , the vegetables are on there you know carrots erm |
| 22 | If they choose to go into an independent sector home , they , and they have a low level of income , they do access what is called the residential care allowance , which is further income support benefit of up to forty five pound a week . |
| 23 | The 1944 Education Act provided for this by drawing up what is called the dual system of county schools ( ie non-denominational ) and Aided Schools whether Catholic or Church of England where a denominational education and environment would be provided . |
| 24 | In this country civil litigation is based on what is called the adversarial system , and this means the court only decides issues presented by the parties . |
| 25 | The cruise missile , 6.4 m long and weighing 1207 kg at the start of its flight , steadily drones at 880 km/hr toward what is called the initial timing control point . |
| 26 | Scientific Systems makes what is called the Exploded View Computer , a £150 machine which displays its workings on a board of coloured lights . |