Example sentences of "have been call [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This project has been called a DIY design as it is open to certain modifications to suit particular whims . |
| 2 | The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime . |
| 3 | The map of the London Underground , which can be seen inside every train , on all stations , on the back of the London A-Z guide , on tea-cloths on sale at the London Transport Museum , on posters , in diaries and in sundry other places , has been called a model of its kind , a work of art . |
| 4 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 5 | Bletchley Park has been called a menagerie , and in the variety and eccentricity of its inhabitants , so it was . |
| 6 | The Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has been called an Aladdin 's Cave of treasures . |
| 7 | Similarly , because of the loss of full housing benefit once a person moves off income support , a large number of unemployed families face what has been called an unemployment trap . |
| 8 | It has been called the Dance of the Clouds . |
| 9 | This is particularly true of what has been called the functionalist theory of the family . |
| 10 | It has been called the flower of Spain . ’ |
| 11 | Luke has been called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit . |
| 12 | The 14 year old from Milton Keynes has been called the boy they ca n't lock up . |
| 13 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 14 | She has been called the mourning Athena , since the bent head suggests grief . |
| 15 | Those principles could well be applied to theology , which has been called the queen of the sciences . |
| 16 | The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos . |
| 17 | History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene . |
| 18 | He has been called the Bellamy of fossils for his ability to inspire his listeners . |
| 19 | War on the Unborn THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has consistently opposed abortion for convenience which has been called The War on the Unborn . |
| 20 | Next to Howard Hodgson , who has been called the tycoon of funeral directors . |
| 21 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 22 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 23 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 24 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |
| 25 | ( It was just as well I did n't know at the time that Jack would once have been called a psychopath , which to most people effectively means ‘ murderer ’ ) Untreatable ? |
| 26 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 27 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 28 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 29 | They form a clearly defined revolutionary group , and have been called the Pioneers . |
| 30 | These have been called the pronouns of power and solidarity respectively . |