Example sentences of "is [adv] call [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The transfer of ownership to the co-operative in 1988 has resulted in one of the most conspicuous restorations within what is flexibly called the Old Town of Edinburgh . |
| 2 | Ross 's view that duty is not totally determined by consequences is usually called the deontic position , and is contrasted with consequentialist positions of which hedonistic and ideal utilitarianism are the chief examples . |
| 3 | The growth of what is usually called the middle class has largely been the result of the increasing amount of white-collar work . |
| 4 | This is usually called an occupational or company pension if the employer is private ; and in the public sector it is often known as superannuation . |
| 5 | In spite of this , the words ‘ buyer beware ’ still carry a very real warning in one type of purchase and that is what is colloquially called a private sale . |
| 6 | For example , in Cureton 's analysis of iambic pentameter in Chapter 5 , all lines metrically begin weak-strong-weak , even those having what is traditionally called a reversed first foot . |
| 7 | This is also called the molecular formula . |
| 8 | Once again the Italian School is represented by the largest number , fifty-one ; there are no additional Spanish drawings ; the British School has increased by two , the Flemish by eight , the Dutch by twenty-three , the French by twenty-nine , but the surprise is the rapid expansion of what is now called the Central European School , comprising German , Swiss and Prague Schools , of which there are twenty-nine compared with the fifteen published in the first volume . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Britain is now called the dirty man of Europe because of our government 's lack of care for the environment . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The first band of earnings attracting this contribution should run up to what is now called the lower earnings limit . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A chemical reaction which produces a quantitative yield is often called a stoichiometric process Many ionic reactions produce quantitative yields . |
| 16 | Lavenham is often called the finest medieval village in England . |
| 17 | The yellow-green cone is also sensitive to the red part of the spectrum , and so is often called the red cone . |
| 18 | It should be pointed out , however , that other definitions of strain will be met with in the literature , most notably , is often called the true strain , while an expression arising from the kinetic theory of elasticity has the form |
| 19 | This is often called the attitudinal function of intonation . |
| 20 | It is often called an eclipsing variable , though it should more properly be described as an eclipsing binary . |
| 21 | A is then called a proper subset of B. Thus we write unc according to the emphasis required . |
| 22 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 23 | If f : unc is 1-1 and onto B , f is sometimes called a 1-1 correspondence . |
| 24 | I regard the father 's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract , a promise in return for an act , a promise by the father to pay £1 per week in return for the mother 's looking after the child . |
| 25 | Given what has been said , further , a mental event is not necessarily what is sometimes called a whole mental state , which is to say all of a person 's consciousness at or for a time , but typically is a part of a whole mental state , a part which itself has parts . |
| 26 | If the first derivative of the property-temperature curve is measured , a change in the vicinity of T g is found ; for this reason it is sometimes called a second-order transition . |
| 27 | In the early days of life the infant is sometimes called a new-born . |
| 28 | This is sometimes called the molar interpretation . |
| 29 | The principle of conservation of energy is sometimes called the First Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 30 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |