Example sentences of "what [be] call [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 2 | Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft . |
| 3 | My Lord it is pleaded as being a matter of er common practice amongst solicitors in this kind of situation er for such advice to be given and my Lord er if you turn to the folio of their particulars erm which were given I think it 's the final book , what are called the voluntary further and better particulars which in fact were the final particulars er given towards the end of the bundle of documents . |
| 4 | The secret is to follow what 's called a balanced diet . |
| 5 | The success of the unification of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces led to a number of attempts to combine these two forces with the strong nuclear force into what is called a grand unified theory ( or GUT ) . |
| 6 | Fluorescent lamps have what is called a negative voltage-current characteristic , This means that it is the nature of the discharge not to be self-sustaining . |
| 7 | It says that judges should follow whichever method of deciding cases will produce what they believe to be the best community for the future , and though some pragmatic lawyers would think this means a richer or happier or more powerful community , others would choose a community with fewer incidents of injustice , with a better cultural tradition and what is called a higher quality of life . |
| 8 | Many times I 'm called up by a local doctor and asked to do what is called a DV — a domiciliary visit to assess the mental state of an individual . |
| 9 | Blast furnace gas is what is called a low-grade fuel . |
| 10 | There are any number of razor-sharp splinters and jagged , irregular surfaces , of course , but some fragments usually show what is called a conchoidal fracture : the surface is fairly smooth , but ridged with a number of concentric corrugations , centred on the point of impact of the hammer , and the effect produced is somewhat reminiscent of the appearance of the ridges on a cockle shell . |
| 11 | The region would become what is called a black hole . |
| 12 | All the information about an object is stored on the computer within what is called a hierarchical database , meaning simply that the information is broken down from broad categories such as ‘ geography ’ into more specific ones such as ‘ continent ’ , ‘ country ’ , ‘ region ’ and so on . |
| 13 | Einstein 's general relativity is what is called a classical theory ; that is , it does not incorporate the uncertainty principle . |
| 14 | The general theory of relativity is what is called a classical theory . |
| 15 | It is what is called a classical theory ; that is , it does not take account of the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics , as it should for consistency with other theories . |
| 16 | Televised violence , however , not only teaches new and unique ways of expressing aggression but also has what is called a disinhibitory effect on aggression in general . |
| 17 | And I would say that in this respect , too , there is another point in the Act that each child now must be related in some way to what is called a responsible person . |
| 18 | ‘ Tim and I , ’ said Louise heavily , ‘ are going through what is called a bad patch . |
| 19 | The statement said that the attacks , involving artillery , helicopter gunships , and special forces gunmen , was intended " to create what is called a safe border zone similar to that created in the north [ Kurdish areas ] and in the same bloody fashion " . |
| 20 | Like the computers made by Acorn , this can be plugged into what is called a local area network — a system of wires and terminals that connects small computers within a building . |
| 21 | U uses what is called an all or nothing assignment . |
| 22 | Now all of the intervals also have what is called an augmented interval and a diminished interval . |
| 23 | This paper only gives erm an , what is called an integrated pollution inspectorate , now unfortunately with those sort of central inspectorates is that after the public 's attention has drifted on , they tend to be erm , they tend to dwindle in numbers , as we 've seen with the present pollution inspectorate . |
| 24 | In most houses , with what is called an indirect cold water supply , the rising main goes directly to a cold water cistern , typically situated in the loft ; in others , with a direct cold water supply , the supply for taps and fittings within the house is taken from the rising main itself . |
| 25 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 26 | I should like to see the Home Office introduce what is called the side-handled baton . |
| 27 | Grammar , secondary modern and technical schools in England and Wales ( and , with different terminology , in Scotland and Northern Ireland — see below ) form what is called the tripartite system , though in reality technical schools have never existed in large numbers . |
| 28 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 29 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 30 | So the climate conforms almost totally — to the east of the Date Line — to what is called the planetary weather system , the theoretical system of winds and pressures that would exist if the earth was a near-perfect spheroid unencumbered with continents , mountain chains and other complicating nuisances . |