Example sentences of "[noun] called an " in BNC.
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| 1 | By fitting a unique valve called an ECO Lock into the sump , we can prevent undissolved detergent being pumped out of the wastepipe . |
| 2 | He or she will look into them with an instrument called an ophthalmoscope to check that the eyes are healthy and there 's no sign of cataracts ( where the lens of the eye is opaque instead of transparent ) . |
| 3 | On each release ( issue ) of the product to a specific client , a further reference called an Issue Identifier is created , which delineates the unique relationship between the product and the client . |
| 4 | There 's a fish called an X-ray fish . |
| 5 | Use a special lifting device called an ambulift or correct lifting procedures but be especially careful of slipping . |
| 6 | In most neurons impulses are received by numerous short fibres called dendrites and carried away from the cell by a single long fibre called an axon . |
| 7 | On 10 March 1988 , the TBL board called an egm of shareholders for 30 March to consider increasing its share capital , which it had power to do under its articles of association . |
| 8 | In the forties the quarry owners got emergency planning permission called an Interim Development Order or IDO . |
| 9 | This change results in a wave of electrical activity passing down the nerve cell membrane — a wave called an action potential that in a few milliseconds passes from the cell body along the axon to the synapse . |
| 10 | RUSSIA 'S leaders vacillated between confrontation and compromise yesterday as President Boris Yeltsin softened his claim to special powers and parliament called an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to try to oust him . |
| 11 | In the past BP Oil had what top managers called an ‘ investment culture ’ . |
| 12 | Neighbours called an ambulance immediately when Joan Whalen , 63 , was discovered on the concrete steps in her back yard in Weardale Drive . |
| 13 | A canister is recovered from the craft , the contents of which solidify into an at first small creature called an Ymir . |
| 14 | The prospect has been that atoms cooled to microkelvin temperatures , with an arrangement called an atomic fountain , would allow orders-of-magnitude improvements in frequency standards . |
| 15 | A dustman who found the body early this morning called an ambulance . |
| 16 | ‘ Conerning which , one hears a whisper that the Secret Service , the White House Protective Detail is holding a little affair called an After Action Study . |
| 17 | In the end the miners called a strike and the government called an election . |
| 18 | In February 1974 , the Conservative Government called an early general election : their incomes policy was in tatters and their attempt to legislate on industrial relations had been beaten back by action on the factory floor and the streets . |
| 19 | Bergman used his iridium compound in a sequence of reactions to demonstrate how to convert an alkane into an iodine derivative called an alkyl iodide . |
| 20 | The women speak of having sacrificed all the trappings of a normal life , and then being left with nothing when the leaders called an end to the struggle . |
| 21 | Bags of kohlrabi and okra , sweet potatoes , chillies , Chinese-leaf lettuce and three pounds of a very peculiar thing called an edenwort , which looked like a beetroot going through a severe identity crisis . |
| 22 | I understand that there is quite a , a complicated form called an , an UCCA form . |
| 23 | Now a normal car battery called an accumulator , accumulator or battery rather than a cell , does n't actually make it , it stores it . |
| 24 | As a result they produced a document called an " Initial Feasibility Study " . |
| 25 | For the first time in 2 and a half centuries , the Rococo Garden at Painswick is dominated by a Gothic screen called an exedra . |
| 26 | As this information came into the command Warrior , the Company Commander called an orders group . |
| 27 | A Welsh farming family called an aunt by marriage ‘ granny ; ’ a Grantham print manager 's family took in a grandfather 's cousin ‘ too old to live alone ’ who just ‘ spent her time knitting ’ and ‘ seemed something like a granny but she was n't . ’ |