Example sentences of "[is] called the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The perfect line on to which you would tack to make the mark is called the layline . |
| 32 | The first part of the subtle body or aura is called the etheric or vital body which emanates about t.5 centimetres from the physical body ; the astral body radiates about 30 centimetres or more around the body ; and the mental or spiritual body , which can widen or contract , sometimes extends for metres when we are feeling jubilant or when we are in love , for instance . |
| 33 | One or two nineteenth-century gunmakers ' workshops survive in Birmingham 's old Gun Quarter , in Bath Street and Loveday Street , and one of the local pubs is called the Gunmaker 's Arms . |
| 34 | There is no ‘ steeple house ’ ( church ) in the village , and the inn is called the ‘ Hammer and Hand ’ , from the inscription ‘ By Hammer and Hand all Arts do stand ’ ( a highly debatable proposition ) . |
| 35 | Instead of local authorities having the inherent right , or what in England is called the common law right , to conduct their affairs as they wished , it became established that local authorities could only do those things which Parliament had authorised them to do . |
| 36 | The power n is called the exponent of y . |
| 37 | When a number is re-expressed in this way , y is called the logarithm of X . |
| 38 | In the cancer patient 's world , the moment of truth , the hole in the floor is called the diagnosis . |
| 39 | But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult . |
| 40 | Later the rational part develops add it is called the adult . |
| 41 | This is called the support price , or intervention price . |
| 42 | The area covered by these coal mines , with the farmland between them , is called the Northumberland and Durham coalfield , or the North East coalfield . |
| 43 | This zone of farms is called the marginal fringe because it is at the upper margin for agriculture . |
| 44 | This proportion is called the relative abundance , and it can be expressed as follows : |
| 45 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 46 | There is little said about what is called the messianic role of TM in the book , apart from a token two pages . |
| 47 | This amount is called the Guaranteed Minimum Pension , or GMP for short . |
| 48 | The minimum figure is called the ‘ scale rate ’ which is supplemented by certain weekly additions depending on your age , health and other circumstances . |
| 49 | The device is called the Microdrive , but it has yet to go on sale , and in any case will be based on a tape rather than a disc . |
| 50 | Scientific Systems makes what is called the Exploded View Computer , a £150 machine which displays its workings on a board of coloured lights . |
| 51 | A two-year research project has produced what is called the home bus system , a set of standards for wiring up the home with coaxial cable . |
| 52 | This barrier , containing the black hole , is called the event horizon . |
| 53 | If the wavelength of a line produced in the observer 's laboratory at A is and the wavelength of the same line observed in the spectrum of the collapsing object is then the fractional increase z= ( — ) / is called the red shift of the spectral line . |
| 54 | ASTRONOMERS have traditionally regarded the sun as an absolutely constant source of light and heat , so much so that the amount of radiation reaching the Earth ( at its average distance ) is called the ‘ solar constant ’ . |
| 55 | The energy span between mobility edges of adjacent Landau levels ( shaded in c ) is called the mobility gap . |
| 56 | The invariant circle is called the circle of inversion , and its centre , the centre of inversion . |
| 57 | Roith is particularly proud of what is called the teaching company scheme . |
| 58 | In what is called the Coriolis effect , the northward moving sea water is pushed to its right , while the southward fresh water moves to its right . |
| 59 | This special location in the Galaxy is called the co-rotation circle , and each spiral galaxy has only one such co-rotation circle . |
| 60 | The cruise missile , 6.4 m long and weighing 1207 kg at the start of its flight , steadily drones at 880 km/hr toward what is called the initial timing control point . |