Example sentences of "[am/are] called [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
| 2 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 3 | K 1 and K 2 are called the principal curvatures of the surface at O. Their product is an invariant for the surface at O called the Gaussian curvature K ; thus |
| 4 | The forms are termed the deviatoric parts of the respective tensors , while are called the dilatational parts . |
| 5 | Interest has centred on the role of two small groups of cells , one on either side of the brain , that are called the suprachiasmatic nuclei ( SCN ) . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The new quantities introduced here are called the metric connections . |