Example sentences of "have be call [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fortnight of workshops , which starts on June 29 , has been called Darlington Children 's Safety Carousel because youngsters rotate from one situation to the next . |
| 2 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 3 | He announced to cheers that he had written to Presidents Gorbachev and Bush seeking support for what has been called Prague 's polite revolution . |
| 4 | It is not until Stanley overhears that Blanche has been calling Stanley ‘ an animal ’ that he decides that he will have to destroy her to save their marriage . |
| 5 | It 's much like a DYPP , and should really have been called DXPP , but someone came up with the name Tech-Tech first ( on the other hand , just try to pronounce DXPP ! ) . |
| 6 | ( In this respect , Straw Dogs could almost have been called John and Mary in Cornwall . ) |
| 7 | Benbulbin ought to have been called Benbulbous , for one end of the barbaric table bulged upward in a great curve , with lesser knuckle-shapes on each side . |
| 8 | Preston might have preferred to have been called Blackpool , all things considered . |
| 9 | We sailed across the Aegean to Izmir , which till recently had been called Smyrna ; and the captain told me how , a few years earlier , as he entered the port , his ship had nosed her way through the floating corpses of Greeks massacred by the Turks . |
| 10 | Talbot saw no point in mentioning that the Ariadne had never carried out a hydrographic exercise in its life and that the ship had been called Ariadne to remind the Greeks that it was a multi-national vessel and to persuade a wavering Greek government that perhaps NATO was n't such a bad thing after all . |
| 11 | The announcer said that the dead girl had been called Marianne Price and that she was twenty . |
| 12 | Vivien had been called Goldman , not particularly euphonious or attractive , that . |
| 13 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 14 | DWEC was really two companies under one name the Darlington Waggon Co which from 1867–79 had been called Harker and Pickering , and Messrs Wilson Bros and Co which had been established in 1872 . |
| 15 | No one had been called Emily for a hundred years . |
| 16 | ‘ Ever since I came here , I 've been called Isabelle 's daughter virtually as a term of abuse . ’ |
| 17 | The Democrats have been calling Mr Bush 's aid plan ‘ grossly inadequate ’ and have been determined to produce an alternative that would increase the aid to the eastern European countries . |
| 18 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |