Example sentences of "be call the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those principles could well be applied to theology , which has been called the queen of the sciences . |
| 2 | It has been called the Dance of the Clouds . |
| 3 | She has been called the mourning Athena , since the bent head suggests grief . |
| 4 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 5 | This is particularly true of what has been called the functionalist theory of the family . |
| 6 | I 'm thinking she should o ’ been called the Girl from County Tyrone , as that 's where she 's from in reality . |
| 7 | These have been called the pronouns of power and solidarity respectively . |
| 8 | It had originally been called The Rest Cure but Eliot discovered that the title had already been used and , after some hesitation , he replaced it with The Elder Statesman . |
| 9 | This web of relationships has been called the role-set . |
| 10 | The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos . |
| 11 | The 14 year old from Milton Keynes has been called the boy they ca n't lock up . |
| 12 | He 's been called the boy they ca n't lock up . |
| 13 | Luke has been called the Gospel of the Holy Spirit . |
| 14 | They form a clearly defined revolutionary group , and have been called the Pioneers . |
| 15 | It has been called the flower of Spain . ’ |
| 16 | It was also the home of the Brooklands Automobile Racing Club whose motto , ‘ The right crowd and no crowding ’ , neatly summed up its attitude — not for nothing has it been called the Ascot of the motor racing world . |
| 17 | Ancient Egypt has been called the infancy of the soul , but coupled with that innocence is the terrible knowledge of death . |
| 18 | One of the major controversies is concerned with the relation between high water level and the abrupt break of slope at the inshore margin of the beach , a feature which has sometimes been called the nip . |
| 19 | Next to Howard Hodgson , who has been called the tycoon of funeral directors . |
| 20 | The first soldier remembered that Medoc had always been called the dark , evil , beautiful one , and Dorrainge said , ‘ Oh yes , he is all of that , ’ and several people looked thoughtful . |
| 21 | Well a lot of people have been called the Antichrist have n't they ? |
| 22 | Applied to the artists showing at Brussels , the term could have no very definite meaning , and Apollinaire found it hard to identify many specific characteristics shared by the painters , or even to distinguish Cubism from Fauvism : ‘ One feature unites them , for if the principal merit of the painters who have been called the Fauves was the return to fundamental principles as far as colour and composition are concerned , the Cubists , in order to extend yet further the province of an art thus renewed , have sought to return to basic principles of drawing and inspiration . |
| 23 | In fact in the eighteen nineties , I believe the seeds were being sown , of what has since been called the time obsession of the twentieth century . |
| 24 | It had officially been called the York Minster , or similar , but that had been too passé for Soho 's artist colony . |
| 25 | War on the Unborn THE Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has consistently opposed abortion for convenience which has been called The War on the Unborn . |
| 26 | This case provides the clearest indication of how the popular press may trade in deciding the appropriate nickname for a new case when the Star decided to focus special attention on this rape of a 6-year-old ‘ He 's been called The Beast , The Monster , the evil sex maniac … . |
| 27 | He has been called the Bellamy of fossils for his ability to inspire his listeners . |
| 28 | History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene . |
| 29 | Stukeley 's brief description ( p. 84 , Vol. i ) reads ‘ Brigcasterton … was fenced about with a deep mote on two sides , the river supplying its use on the other two ; for it stands at an angle , and the Romans made a little curve in the road here on purpose to take it in , as it offered itself so conveniently , then rectified the obliquity on the other side of the town ; it consists of one street running through its length upon the road ; the great ditch and banks are called the Dikes . |
| 30 | The corresponding quantities are called the reflectance , absorptance and transmittance of the canopy . |