Example sentences of "have been call the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A dermatology hospital which has been called the best in the country has opened in Oxford .
2 The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district .
3 The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training .
4 This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state !
5 A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions .
6 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 .
7 Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension .
8 His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution .
9 In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula .
10 The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament .
11 He was elected — in absentia — as chairman of the clandestine bishop 's conference established in November 1989 , as a gesture of respect from the leaders of what has been called the largest illegal religious group .
12 The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force .
13 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 .
14 He appears to have had a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle similar to E , but the later part of his work is filled with romance , and might seem to belong to what has been called the twelfth-century fictionalising history best exemplified by Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Britonum .
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 ‘ It has been called the quickest personal growth experience you can have .
20 The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic .
24 I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’
25 they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males .
26 I , for one , have been called the dumbest person in Britain .
27 The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker .
28 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
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