Example sentences of "have be called [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A special meeting of both sides has been called for next Tuesday to discuss the crux . |
| 2 | The unchanging , unknowable , eternal wellspring of that energy has been called by many names in many civilisations : Brahman , Allah , God , The Absolute , to name a few . |
| 3 | Sport has been called by many , including such opposing writers as Robert Boyle ( 1963 ) and Paul Hoch ( 1972 ) , a ‘ mirror ’ reflecting , in often exaggerated ways , aspects of social life . |
| 4 | SWALEDALE has been called by many the most beautiful of all the dales and though I would argue with that definition , it is certainly one of the finest . |
| 5 | West Burton has been called by many " the prettiest village in the Dales " , and though I think that Dent village has them all beat hands down for style and atmosphere , West Burton runs a close second . |
| 6 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 7 | The Minister of Housing and Local Government ( as his Planning Ministry had been called since 1951 ) , Richard Crossman , set up a Planning Advisory Group in 1964 , chaired by a civil servant , I.V . |
| 8 | A meeting had been called at one of the local schools , another in a series of as yet fruitless attempts to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city rot . |
| 9 | Although the talks had been called at short notice in an attempt to reduce bilateral tensions , particularly in the light of recent failures in official negotiations , they were felt by press observers to have produced only ambiguous results . |
| 10 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 11 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 12 | The elections had been called in early October [ see p. 37724 ] after President Wojciech Jaruzelski , the last remaining communist head of state in eastern Europe except for that of Albania , had agreed to resign just over a year into his six-year term and to transfer power to a freely elected head of state . |
| 13 | It was an unusually quiet night , and Jack had been called in earlier and had stayed not out of necessity but because , as he said , if he went home he would only be called out again . |
| 14 | A general strike by supporters of both sides ( but predominantly Hungarians ) had been called in surrounding regions and the Hungarian Prime Minister Miklós Németh sent a letter of protest to Bucharest and appealed to the UN to intervene . |
| 15 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 16 | He had been called like this only three times before — to her knowledge . |
| 17 | Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police . |