Example sentences of "now call the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained the British problem to the Germans by saying that the British people had been lied to — they had not been told the truth about what used to be called the Common Market and is now called the European Community . |
| 2 | Government grant is distributed through a mechanism which is now called the standard spending assessment , an awful word , or phrase , but it is absolutely vital , and if you look at the standard spending assessment given to this county the government is saying we ought to be able to provide all the services for a total cost of eight hundred and seventy nine pounds per charge payer . |
| 3 | There was a growing feeling that the failure to establish the Common Market ( now called the Internal Market ) within the EC resulted in major handicaps for EC companies . |
| 4 | This process is begun more explicitly in Barthes 's S/Z which in its change of direction opens what is now called the post-structuralist era and marks the end of the so-called classical or scientific period of structuralism . |
| 5 | Britain is now called the dirty man of Europe because of our government 's lack of care for the environment . |
| 6 | The major portion of the consumption of energy over the past 100 years has been due to the industrialisation of what is now called the Developed World . |
| 7 | The Cathedral of the Assumption ( Dormition ) , now called the Uspensky Cathedral , was built in 1158 but rebuilt after a fire in 1183 . |
| 8 | The Tower of London was William 's first and most important care and in 1080 he built the stone keep now called the White Tower . |
| 9 | The Secret Committee — now called the Main Committee — produced two very different policy statements in the course of the year . |
| 10 | The green belt also formed a tangible focal point for what we now call the environmental lobby . |
| 11 | Following the conquests of Alexander , Egypt and the rest of the area that we now call the Middle East were dominated by Hellenistic customs and views . |
| 12 | Well as I indicated earlier , colleagues , I now call the general secretary to respond to the debate . |
| 13 | The industry was unique in that the law prescribed for it health and recreational provisions , what we now call the social wage , for most of this century . |
| 14 | Einstein 's original theory of relativity , which he proposed in the paper written in 1905 , is what we now call the special theory of relativity . |