Example sentences of "[prep] [be] called the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations . |
| 2 | And would her daughter continue to be called the Duchess of York ? |
| 3 | Expected to be called the Powerserver 970 and costing little more than the current 75.8 SPECmark Model 950 , it is said to be a rack-mount machine costing around $97,000 for an entry-level configuration with 64Mb memory and 2.2Gb disk . |
| 4 | William gazed out of the window as they drove through what used to be called The Village and was now just another suburban shopping centre . |
| 5 | But during their stay , at Moses ' instruction , they provided materials for the construction of the very complex tent which has come to be called the tabernacle . |
| 6 | Variety will be the catchword at the new venue , to be called the Beehive Variety Club . |
| 7 | It provides for the appointment of the ombudsman to be called the Building Societies Ombudsman as the adjudicator required by the Act . |
| 8 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 9 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 10 | The new party was to be called the Revival Party of Mongolia , and 300 MPRP members were said to have joined initially . |
| 11 | It came amid reports that the government had in July accepted US funds to establish a new 100-strong secret service , to be called the Council for Public Security and National Defence , closely linked to the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) . |
| 12 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 13 | ‘ La Piazza : used to be called the Padovani . ’ |
| 14 | Elections will then have to be held to chose the 300 members of the lower house , to be called the State Duma . |
| 15 | In May 1940 with the threat of invasion a call went out for volunteers for a new force to be known as the Local Defence Volunteers or for short L.D.V. This was later to be called the Home Guard and " Dad 's Army " . |
| 16 | The municipal authorities of Barcelona , who over the past few years have acquired a great deal of experience and expertise in founding and running cultural centres , have recently signed an agreement with the Fundación Salvador Allende to collaborate in setting up a museum in Santiago , Chile , to be called the Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende . |
| 17 | At a meeting in the Rummer Tavern ( which still exists in rebuilt form a few doors from Cottle 's former bookshop ) he was persuaded by ‘ sundry Philanthropists ’ and opponents of the war to begin publication of a periodical to be called the Watchman . |
| 18 | Worst of all for Scottish pride , what has come to be called the Stone of Scone is no longer in its honoured place . |
| 19 | It was to be called the Cloister Group , and meet in the Cloisters . |
| 20 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 21 | ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) . |
| 22 | It 's going to be called The Flesh Prince Of Bel Air or Miss Thai Gone ’ . |
| 23 | The placing of Uruguay and Colombia in the third pool has satisfied the South Americans , and what used to be called the Iron Curtain countries can not complain . |
| 24 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 25 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 26 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 27 | He wanted it to be called the Chemical Engineering Society but this proved to be too avant-garde , and a great opportunity to be first was lost . |
| 28 | Acer will introduce a line of the PICA boxes to be called the Formula 64-bit PCs at Comdex Spring and will sell the blueprints and OEM motherboards to other vendors . |
| 29 | No man gets to be called the Ángel of Death just because he tells his men to stand fast and fight . |
| 30 | But though my spirits were high , the shadow of that man , who liked to be called the Ángel of Death , travelled with me , the memory of his good looks , his well-oiled virility , above all Iris Sunderby 's apparent infatuation , constantly there in my mind . |