Example sentences of "what has [be] [vb pp] the " in BNC.

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1 The Prime Minister 's press conferences have become increasingly crowded over the years in what has been dubbed The Blue Hole of Calcutta .
2 For these countries , the impacts of what has been dubbed the ‘ forced adjustment phase ’ ( Mentre , 1984 ) were reflected internally , with the main burden of adjustment often falling on wage-earners .
3 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 .
4 In the context of the debate on continuation schools it can best be understood through an examination of two of its principal features , namely , political stability , which of necessity included social harmony , and what has been called the ‘ civic ideal ’ , which meant service to the community .
5 Tyner ( b. 1938 ) , another original and previously precocious American talent , was one fourth of what has been called the ‘ most influential quartet in jazz history ’ — namely John Coltrane of 1960–65 ( Coltrane , Tyner , Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones ) .
6 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 .
7 The effective transaction of communicative business requires the parties concerned to enter into a sort of social contract involving adherence to what has been called the ‘ Cooperative Principle ’ ( see Grice 1975 ) .
8 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 .
9 This has brought in a new dimension to recent thinking , and begun to raise sharp questions about what has been called the ‘ Latin captivity ’ of western theology .
10 Thinking and practice impose what has been called the ‘ sick role ’ ( Tuckett , 1976 ) on people with learning difficulties .
11 An example of this is shown in what has been called the ‘ Colditz Bicycle Game ’ .
12 His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution .
13 This is particularly true of what has been called the functionalist theory of the family .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 This kind of thing , what has been called the ‘ roving anecdote ’ , makes it easy to recognize the tyrannical or other type , hard to get at the truth about an individual .
18 The immediate cause of the crisis is seen as the combination of different types of difficult prisoners — what has been called the ‘ toxic mix ’ of prisoners ( Home Office , 1994a : para 124 ) — in physically poor and insecure conditions which gives rise to an ‘ explosion ’ .
19 Though other accounts may be sought and presented , those in authority occupy a privileged position in what has been called the ‘ hierarchy of credibility ’ ( Becker , 1972 ) .
20 Their specific significance is that they form a crucial element in what has been called the ‘ self-production ’ of modern societies .
21 Readiness for war , as well as the actual waging of war , becomes a principal political concern , military leaders acquire a more prominent place in the political system , and the economy is geared increasingly to military needs , giving rise to what has been called the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ as one of the main centres of power and of economic growth .
22 Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension .
23 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 .
24 In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula .
25 A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions .
26 Above all Lecercle emerges from what has been called the " both-and " school of poststructuralism , that is , he is happy to include a plurality of theories and norms on the one hand and of practices and common sense on the other : Langue is OK but some New Yorkers just do say " I done do it " .
27 In the United States , academics have for some years been engaging in what has been termed the ‘ deregulation critique ’ of the federal role in education .
28 The major plank of what has been termed the ‘ Wolfenden philosophy ’ was a distinction between ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ behaviour .
29 The Prime Minister , John Major , has thrown his weight behind the Chartered Building Company Scheme by welcoming what has been termed the ‘ citizens charter for construction ’ .
30 Turning to what has been termed the analytical approach to materials in which the reasons for the macroscopically observed behaviour are sought in molecular configurations and other aspects of microstructure , there has been a recent acceleration of research into polymer chain configurations and their modification by stress and deformation .
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