Example sentences of "have been call a [noun sg] " 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 | Bletchley Park has been called a menagerie , and in the variety and eccentricity of its inhabitants , so it was . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 6 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 11 | The man who 's been called a reincarnation of the legendary James Deans sighs and admits : |