Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] called a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Namibia continues to kill these animals in what is still variously called a harvest or a cull . |
| 2 | It is also sometimes called a theology of ‘ feeling ’ , and he himself uses this language . |
| 3 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |
| 4 | A spur , sometimes inappropriately called a snag , is the result of either a breakage not being cleaned back properly to an eye or growth bud , or of pruning too far above a bud — a common case is cutting a bloom , and not paying attention to what is left behind on the plant . |
| 5 | Lucille 's home was very grandly called a château , though in truth it was nothing more than a large moated farm with a crenellated tower to remind passers-by that the building had once been a small fortress . |