Example sentences of "it is called a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the direction is reversed the defect is called a fold , while if the defect causes neither displacement nor reversal of direction but only a local disordering of the zigzag configuration it is called a kink . |
| 2 | Where the barn adjoined the dwelling it is called a laithe house , and often the stable and cow-house were built beyond the barn as part of the same range . |
| 3 | It is called a sinker because it sinks beneath you when you are stationary . |
| 4 | Its real purpose though — which the editor guessed ( oh yes ? ) — is for strengthening ankles , and it is called a wobble board . |
| 5 | Heroin ( smack , horse , H , Chinese — when combined with cocaine it is called a snowball ) . |
| 6 | Thus it is called a capital intensive industry . |
| 7 | It is called a squid fishery , but the truth is that anything that moves near these nets is likely to be caught and killed . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ It is called a gumma , and is characteristic of a particular medical condition . |
| 9 | It is called a synonym , and will overflow from its natural home address because that is already full . |
| 10 | Since the environmental rhythm is giving a time-cue to the organism it is called a zeitgeber ( from the German , Zeit — time ; geber — to give ) . |
| 11 | ( It is called a funnel because it is open to so many wind directions . ) |
| 12 | It is like half a bracket and in fact it is called a ket vector . |
| 13 | Section 11(3) , on the other hand , emphasises that a stipulation may be a condition even though it is called a warranty in the contract . |