Example sentences of "was once called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | NOW the European Community mandarins have gone their separate ways after yet another costly weekend of squabbling and arm-twisting , it 's time we realised that the nations which form what was once called The Common Market actually have very little in ‘ common ’ at all . |
| 2 | This supposed boundary of the Pacific plate almost exactly parallels what was once called the Andesite Line : a zone surrounding the Pacific , on the outer edge of which are found rocks of an andesitic — acid — variety , and within which nearly all the rocks are of a more basic kind , using the word in its chemical sense . |
| 3 | Another development of the 1980s , which is relevant to the fortunes of institutions such as the ICA , is the disappearance of what was once called the ‘ avant-garde ’ has tended to conclude that it always was distinguishable from ‘ modern ’ or ‘ modernist ’ , and that its key feature was political affiliation , generally expressed as strategies of negation and opposition . |
| 4 | The headquarters for Russia 's fur trade in the 1800s was once called the Paris of the Pacific because of its grace and charm . |
| 5 | That is why it is essential that we should continue to develop the space-based defence , which was once called the strategic defence initiative or SDI and is now referred to as ’ brilliant pebbles ’ . |
| 6 | [ You know , of course , the Blue Boar was once called the White Boar but after Bosworth , they changed the colour from white to blue . |