Example sentences of "[be] called [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right they 're called a pacifier . |
| 2 | They 're called a pacifier and you can sort of like use them to strike and to defend yourself with them yeah ? |
| 3 | But if you do n't do what the other lasses tell you to , you 're called a softie or a shit or something like that . |
| 4 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
| 5 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 6 | On the other side of the world they 're called the fair maids of February , but on this side they 're known as the sweet maids of September . |
| 7 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
| 8 | ‘ The boys spent all their time together and they 're called the terrible twins because they 're so alike . ’ |
| 9 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It seems necessary for it to have what has been called a ‘ cognitive map ’ in its head ; that is , it would have to have something which conveyed the same information as is conveyed by Figure 10 . |
| 14 | The decision has been called a whitewash of the Vichy regime . |
| 15 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 16 | Bletchley Park has been called a menagerie , and in the variety and eccentricity of its inhabitants , so it was . |
| 17 | In the post-war period and until the 1970s the content of Marshall 's citizenship — which has been called a ‘ citizenship of entitlement ’ — expanded in various ways : the political element in the form of the right to vote and stand for election grew to include participation in the political process through a proliferation of pressure groups ; the civil element was enhanced through anti-discrimination legislation , and the UK 's signature of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 18 | In my view , however , therein lies its strength ; it is a programme that can be relied on to give an unvarnished account of the proceedings of the House and its committees ; it has been called a mini-Hansard . |
| 19 | 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 ) . |
| 20 | In some lesser developed countries , particularly in central and east Africa , it has been called a ‘ bureaucratic bourgeoisie ’ , a term which is discussed below . |
| 21 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 22 | A nuee is at once immensely hot and immensely powerful — the St Pierre nuee has often been called a ‘ tornadic ’ blast — and its destructive capabilities are all too clear . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Early in this century , a half-Tsimshian called William Benyon ( he would have been called a ‘ half-breed ’ in the contemporary books of my childhood ) , interviewed all the tribal elders he could find and wrote their stories down . |
| 25 | One hundred year ago Prof Peabody might well have been equally indignant had she been called a scientist , and would have said ( as did Faraday and Kelvin ) ‘ I prefer to be called a natural philosopher ’ . |
| 26 | I may have been called a pillock and a dickhead , but no one asked why I had tried to brain my companion . |
| 27 | We now live in what has been called a ‘ turbulent environment ’ , which is characterized by increased levels of complexity , interdependence and uncertainty . |
| 28 | This project has been called a DIY design as it is open to certain modifications to suit particular whims . |
| 29 | FRS 3 , Reporting Financial Performance , has been called a ‘ landmark standard ’ by the ASB . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |