Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] called [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 2 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
| 3 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 4 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 5 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
| 6 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 7 | However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France . |
| 8 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 9 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 10 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 11 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 12 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 13 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 14 | The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences . |
| 15 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |
| 16 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 17 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
| 18 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
| 19 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 20 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 21 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 22 | The temperature at which this occurs is called the boiling point of the liquid . |
| 23 | Chunnel cynics think the high profile of the rabies defences is meant to draw attention away from the real hazards of what 's been called the longest crematorium in the world |