Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although no formal proposals have yet been announced by anyone , there is no doubt that the idea for a ‘ Super Super Series ’ , as I suppose it should be called , is gaining momentum . |
| 2 | In the same period Trotsky was suggesting from his ivory tower in the capital that in order to avoid saints ' names , children should be called Ninel ( Lenin backwards ) or simply Rem ( the initials for revolution , electrification , and peace ) . |
| 3 | On 26 September , before the Cabinet had seriously begun to consider whether an election should be called , Snowden declared that an early election could not be avoided ; and on 2 October , Neville Chamberlain noted in his diary , ‘ Snowden expressed strongly the view that imports must be controlled ’ . |
| 4 | All the Commonwealth Prime Ministers agreed that a full international conference should be called . |
| 5 | Ancient hostility between Iranians and Arabs is mirrored in the squabble about whether the Gulf should be called ‘ Persian ’ or ‘ Arabian ’ or , the boring compromise , neither . |
| 6 | He thought it was the will of God that he should be called to suffer . |
| 7 | The General Council of the TUC had decided that only essential , front-line or group one , workers such as railway workers and printers should be called out . |
| 8 | It was agreed that another meeting should be called to launch a civil rights body and this took place on 29 January 1967 . |
| 9 | What is surprising is not that the rural past should be called up , but that the writer should invest it with the imaginative and emotional power that he does . |
| 10 | Whether this should be called ‘ consummation ’ or something else is a question of definition . |
| 11 | It seems to me that Bethe ( writing in 1954 ) did not give due credit to Ulam for switching ideas onto an entirely new track ; judging from accounts given elsewhere ( eg The Advisors , H. F. York , San Francisco , 1976 ) Ulam rather than Teller should be called ‘ The Father of the H-Bomb ’ . |
| 12 | Perhaps whoever becomes Secretary of State for Industry after the general election in four weeks time — what a mercifully short election period — should be called the Secretary of State for Industry and Technology . |
| 13 | 1 John 3:1 says , ‘ How great is the love the Father has lavished on us , that we should be called children of God ! |
| 14 | They insisted that the blackboard should be called the chalkboard . |
| 15 | There 's nothing wrong with that ’ — STEVE TSHWETE ( ANC executive ) on suggestions that the New Zealand tour to South Africa should be called off owing to the Boipatong massacre . |
| 16 | ‘ The English press with us feel that the tour should be called off . |
| 17 | If Lord 's has any thoughts for the anxiety felt by the families at the thought of England 's players running a gauntlet of violence for 11 weeks the tour should be called of . |
| 18 | In 1920 , Croydon Aerodrome became a civilian airport , operated by Imperial Airways ( the local Council thought it should be called Wallington Airport ) . |
| 19 | Vincent would have applauded the religious tenor of Lawrence 's Foreword to Sons and Lovers , and especially this : ‘ So there is the Father — which should be called the Mother … ’ |
| 20 | That does not mean to say that the bottom line in the FRS 3 p&l account does not have some value : but I would argue that the figure should be called ‘ net income ’ rather than ‘ earnings ’ . |
| 21 | HOW strange that a girl as pretty as the winner of the Kim Basinger lookalike contest in America should be called Andrew Wright . |
| 22 | Both Ian Allan , chairman of AIR , and I have felt for some time that this division was not helpful to the railway movement and it was agreed at the ARPS Council meeting held on 25th April ( which I missed due to the pleasure of attending my secretary 's wedding ) and the AIR Board meeting two days later that we adopt a proposal put forward by David Madden , a member of ARPS Council and director of operations on the North Norfolk Railway , to set up a joint committee to handle affairs of mutual interest , which we agreed should be called in good railway tradition : ‘ The Railway Clearing House ’ . |
| 23 | This record should n't be called ‘ Erotica ’ , it should be called ‘ SHAG ’ . |
| 24 | Taking for example the nuclear power plant control room , the question is whether the desk operators should be expected to cope with all emergencies which appear within the total information presentation or whether , for complex and dangerous situations , a more senior person such as the shift-charge engineer should be called upon to make the decisions . |
| 25 | Strictly , this latter should be called a skill description rather than a task description . |
| 26 | The Crown Prince , who had never favoured Falkenhayn 's plans , was adamant in his belief that the offensive should be called off ; Falkenhayn himself wavered — as well he might , for his reputation and professional future depended on success at Verdun . |
| 27 | The Commissioners were not surprised to find that the arrangement of the master and the matron of the workhouse not being man and wife had not succeeded , and they concluded that all four should be called on to resign , as ‘ none of these appear fit for their respective offices ’ . |
| 28 | ( a ) the Public Assistance Committee should be called in future ‘ The County Council Social Welfare Committee ’ ; |
| 29 | Similarly the moral crusaders , newspaper proprietors and muck-raking journalists should be called off . |
| 30 | Conversely , many headquarters staff saw those in the field as too narrowly concerned with the running of their own prison establishments , and resistant to any suggestion that they should be called to account for the extent to which they implemented nationally agreed policies . |