Example sentences of "could [adv] [be] called a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enoch Powell , who needed nobody to tell him that he could n't win ( he knew that perfectly well ) , was not the object of anything that could properly be called a campaign : he was a loner with just a few devoted friends behind him . |
| 2 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 3 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 4 | This is a choice ( whether conscious or unconscious is a different matter ) , but could scarcely be called a style . |
| 5 | In 1922 the capital of the guberniia could hardly be called a bastion of the proletariat . |
| 6 | LADY in black Jackie Miller could hardly be called a mo-pedestrian either . |
| 7 | Now to an event that could hardly be called a sport , even though it did produce a new British champion . |
| 8 | The elongated , slightly oval hummock could hardly be called a grave , more a burial mound . |
| 9 | The integration of its railway system — it could hardly be called a network — was a major problem . |
| 10 | The garden could hardly be called a garden ; it was large , wild and not too well kept . |
| 11 | There was bougainvillaea in flower , clambering up the stone walls , small white roses on thin stalks among the weeds , and wild flowers in what could hardly be called a garden . |
| 12 | There is nothing that could reasonably be called a head ; merely a small light-sensitive spot ; no heart , only a number of pulsating arteries ; no fins or limbs , only a slight dilation at the hind end like the flight feathers of an arrow . |
| 13 | And that could fairly be called an act of express consent . |
| 14 | An attempted return led David to disastrous defeat at Neville 's Cross , after which he was a prisoner in English hands for eleven years until bought back for what could truly be called a king 's ransom . |