Example sentences of "be call the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the culmination of a campaign to mobilise white opinion against President de Klerk 's reforms , and to launch what they 're calling the third freedom struggle of the Boer Nation . |
| 2 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
| 3 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
| 4 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 5 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 8 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 9 | He was elected — in absentia — as chairman of the clandestine bishop 's conference established in November 1989 , as a gesture of respect from the leaders of what has been called the largest illegal religious group . |
| 10 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 11 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 12 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 13 | A dermatology hospital which has been called the best in the country has opened in Oxford . |
| 14 | In schools the assumptions of society show themselves in three ways : through what has been called the explicit , the implicit and the nul curricula . |
| 15 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 16 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 17 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 18 | This is truly what , in another context , has been called the withering away of the state as the state ! |
| 19 | I , for one , have been called the dumbest person in Britain . |
| 20 | they 've been called the white Marxist Public Enemy ; hypocrites ; idealists ; patronising liberal males . |
| 21 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 22 | The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences . |
| 23 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 24 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
| 25 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 26 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 27 | The tip , which has been called the biggest in Europe , receives more than a million tonnes of waste every year , nearly two thirds of it toxic . |
| 28 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
| 29 | Chunnel cynics think the high profile of the rabies defences is meant to draw attention away from the real hazards of what 's been called the longest crematorium in the world |
| 30 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |