Example sentences of "[adv] be called the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ Auld Alliance ’ and the French Connection should more properly be called the Scots Connection . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | Realism can fairly be called the dominant theory in the history of International Relations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is very clear in the swashbuckling tale given that very title , compounded by Conrad and his close friend Ford Madox Hueffer ( afterwards Ford Madox Ford ) in what may surely be called the Golden Age of the classic adventure story . |
| 6 | The first , which can conveniently be called the traditional theory , is known as the ‘ price pressure hypothesis ’ , and holds that rights issues will cause a temporary depression in the price as the issue has increased the supply of shares . |