Example sentences of "may be called the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two most important catchphrases , certainly by the 1890s , were the ‘ law of evolution ’ and what may be called the spirit of organization . |
| 2 | You will be concerned with what may be called the degree of pruning : do you prune hard , ruthlessly to ground level , or not so drastically ? |
| 3 | As Gombrich points out : ‘ the experience of the underlying constancies in a person 's face which is so strong as to survive all the transformations of mood and age and even to leap across generations , conflicts with the strange fact that such recognition can be inhibited with comparative ease by what may be called the mask ’ . |
| 4 | When demand and supply are in equilibrium , the amount of the commodity which is being produced in a unit of time may be called the equilibrium-amount , and the price at which it is being sold may be called the equilibrium-price . |
| 5 | The need for a third dimension arises most obviously from what may be called the problem of philosophy . |
| 6 | These distinctions , highlighted in Fig. 1 , may be called the dualisms of normativism and occupy a central place in normativist thought . |
| 7 | This may be called the Principle of the Relative Independence of Sedimentation and Subsidence . |
| 8 | This may be called the Principle of the Golden Spike . |
| 9 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 10 | What ‘ the state ’ stands for is a number of particular institutions which , together , constitute its reality , and which interact as parts of what may be called the state system . |
| 11 | The two sides may be called the Goths and the Greeks , and while the Goths won the war , the Greeks took quite a few battle honours . |
| 12 | ( There is no accepted name for the latter , but it may be called the casus male inclusus ) . |
| 13 | This inner ode may be called the kernel mode , in which case the intermediate ode is called the supervisor mode . |
| 14 | Such , too , was the theme that intensified in their fiction towards middle age , which may be called the agony of a lost Eden . |
| 15 | There is a catastrophic ‘ implosion ’ , which may be called the opposite of an explosion , followed by a shock-wave which literally blows the star apart in what is called a supernova outburst . |
| 16 | This may be called the Phenomenon of the Persistence of Facies . |
| 17 | This may be called the Phenomenon of the Gap Being More Important than the Record . |
| 18 | This may be called the Phenomenon of the Catastrophic Nature of much of the Stratigraphical Record . |
| 19 | This may be called the Phenomenon of Quantum Sedimentation . |
| 20 | A second type of critic may be called the progressive . |
| 21 | Assuming for the moment that the efficiency of production depends solely upon the exertions of the workers , we saw that ‘ the price required to call forth the exertion necessary for producing any given amount of a commodity may be called the supply price for that amount , with reference of course to a given unit of time ’ . |
| 22 | Eliot certainly appreciated Hayward 's caustic wit and was himself , according to Hayward , " … a connoisseur of the ridiculous , an ironical commentator on human folly , a lover of allusive quotation ( particularly from the dicta of Sherlock Holmes and other eminent detectives ) , and a passionate observer of what may be called the Bouvard et Pécuchet way of life " . |
| 23 | He makes heavy use of what may be called the Argument from Personal Incredulity . |
| 24 | The basic duty provides us with the fundamental rule of conduct which may be called the rule of law ; viz. , that we must not only not injure , but must also work to promote , social solidarity . |
| 25 | When demand and supply are in equilibrium , the amount of the commodity which is being produced in a unit of time may be called the equilibrium-amount , and the price at which it is being sold may be called the equilibrium-price . |
| 26 | The relationship with what may be called the NWICO movement needs both study and experimentation . |
| 27 | This may be called the chain through vacancy facility . |