Example sentences of "has [be] call [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
2 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
3 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
4 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
5 | The story , based on a novel by Edith Wharton has been called a heterosexual ‘ Death in Venice ’ , but it is far more than that ( you may equally regard it as a grown-up ‘ Sound of Music ’ ) ! |
6 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
7 | Their friendship has been called a unique political ménage à trois . |
8 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
9 | However , there have been rumblings of discontent at what has been called an unwelcome invasion of American popular culture into the heart of France . |
10 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
11 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
14 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
15 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
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 | 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 . |
18 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |
19 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
20 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
21 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
22 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |