Example sentences of "be called a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toni , who has been called a dark Debbie Harry , was recently voted the best female artist and object of desire in the music press . |
| 2 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 3 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
| 4 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 5 | The difference between the groups shown in Fig. 5.8 has been called a differential outcomes effect because the superior performance of the correlated group depends on the fact that the outcome of a correct response is reliably different for the two trial types ( tone trials and clicker trials ) . |
| 6 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
| 7 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 8 | Such a payment has often been called a voluntary payment . |
| 9 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
| 10 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 11 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 12 | So I gave you a topic sport or a hobby or an interest that you had and you produced a thought pattern for that just as we 'd done in the practice one with the subject of water , but then we moved on a stage further to get what are called a structured thought pattern . |
| 13 | In other time management systems this sort of thing would be called a key results area , erm , you know , it , it 's that kind of thing . |
| 14 | For example , the Laki eruption taken as a whole constitutes a splendid example of a fissure eruption , but along its twenty-five kilometre length dozens of small volcanic cones were built up , none of them very big , although each one , if considered separately , could be called a central vent volcano . |
| 15 | They applied what might be called a Morellian analysis , recording precisely the minute details of the ancient works , dividing statues into as many as 300 measurable parts , and entering the results into a database . |
| 16 | Which creature may be called a Bubbly Jock in Scotland ? |
| 17 | Thirteen , with which creature may be called a Bubbly Jock in Scotland ? |
| 18 | Rather than attempting to define the nature of the " humane education " thus envisaged , Leavis merely asserts that " It seems better simply to point to English literature , which is unquestionably and producibly " there " , and to suggest that the " literary tradition " that this unquestionable existence justifies us in speaking of might … be called a vague concept . " |
| 19 | There was a long silence — what I think might be called a pregnant pause . |
| 20 | Nor is it in itself what would ordinarily be called a mental process , say a process involving the Self or a process of which the person in question has a unique kind of direct awareness . |
| 21 | Any drill which requires changes in word order , whether optional or obligatory , which requires the addition or deletion of grammatical constituents such as not and which further exacts the alteration of grammatical pairs such as already and yet , can be called a transformational drill . |
| 22 | This might be called a constructive attack , since it implied that Morgenthau 's notion of a determining system might be strengthened by dropping the contentious and unprovable notion of human nature . |
| 23 | There is , of course , nothing new in the development of what might be called a farm-centred community , distinct and largely separated from the village , particularly in the pastoral and upland areas of England , where this kind of settlement pattern has traditionally been more common . |
| 24 | Originally bred as a draught animal , its milk has always been known for its quality ( if not quantity ) and it can fairly be called a dual-purpose breed . |
| 25 | Hurtling along the open track and through what might be called a blinding blizzard , the C.P.R. ‘ Special ’ carried Gladstone Murray and his party to Regina in just over an hour . |
| 26 | If the archetypal Tory of the 1979 intake was a rent-a-quote property dealer who backed Mrs Thatcher to the death and the death penalty to the hilt , Mr Heddle can be called a sad loss to the Two Nations Tendency . |
| 27 | The latter would be called a subjective budget and would list items in headings such as buildings , staff , rent , rates , capitation , in terms of the total spent in each category , rather than show how part of each category related to a particular programme . |
| 28 | HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance . |
| 29 | The dominant families of the other papers had what now would be called a low profile too . |
| 30 | A dog that gains a third prize is a dog that lacks quality and is not perfect in construction , but one that still can not be called a poor specimen . |