Example sentences of "[prep] [be] called the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations .
2 Variety will be the catchword at the new venue , to be called the Beehive Variety Club .
3 It provides for the appointment of the ombudsman to be called the Building Societies Ombudsman as the adjudicator required by the Act .
4 The new party was to be called the Revival Party of Mongolia , and 300 MPRP members were said to have joined initially .
5 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 .
6 Elections will then have to be held to chose the 300 members of the lower house , to be called the State Duma .
7 In May 1940 with the threat of invasion a call went out for volunteers for a new force to be known as the Local Defence Volunteers or for short L.D.V. This was later to be called the Home Guard and " Dad 's Army " .
8 The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende .
9 It was to be called the Cloister Group , and meet in the Cloisters .
10 ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) .
11 It 's going to be called The Flesh Prince Of Bel Air or Miss Thai Gone ’ .
12 The placing of Uruguay and Colombia in the third pool has satisfied the South Americans , and what used to be called the Iron Curtain countries can not complain .
13 He wanted it to be called the Chemical Engineering Society but this proved to be too avant-garde , and a great opportunity to be first was lost .
14 Acer will introduce a line of the PICA boxes to be called the Formula 64-bit PCs at Comdex Spring and will sell the blueprints and OEM motherboards to other vendors .
15 His plan was to reorganize the Southern League with other clubs into two divisions of eighteen to twenty clubs each , to be called the Football Alliance , with promotion and relegation between the Second Division of the League and the First of the Alliance as well as within the two organizations .
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