Example sentences of "[is] sometimes called [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some birds each sheet is twisted through a small constant angle with respect to its predecessor , giving rise to what is sometimes called a twisted ply or structure ( Figure 4 ) ; such a structure is handed . |
| 2 | I regard the father 's promise in this case as what is sometimes called a unilateral contract , a promise in return for an act , a promise by the father to pay £1 per week in return for the mother 's looking after the child . |
| 3 | Given what has been said , further , a mental event is not necessarily what is sometimes called a whole mental state , which is to say all of a person 's consciousness at or for a time , but typically is a part of a whole mental state , a part which itself has parts . |
| 4 | If the first derivative of the property-temperature curve is measured , a change in the vicinity of T g is found ; for this reason it is sometimes called a second-order transition . |
| 5 | In the early days of life the infant is sometimes called a new-born . |
| 6 | This is sometimes called the molar interpretation . |
| 7 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 8 | The Tiebout model is sometimes called the invisible foot : people will cluster together in the area providing the package of spending and taxes they want . |
| 9 | M0 is sometimes called the wide monetary base as it includes those assets that are , or could be , used as cash reserves by the banking system . |
| 10 | Since the assumptions we have made are the same as those in the simple Keynesian model and the Keynesian theory of money , the IS-LM model derived above is sometimes called the general Keynesian model . |
| 11 | This is sometimes called the molecular interpretation . |
| 12 | It is sometimes called the Danish Gorgonzola , although the veining is greenish in colour and the paste is very yellow . |
| 13 | The zoogeographical area that surrounds this line is sometimes called the Wallacean sub-region . |
| 14 | This term is sometimes called the external energy . |
| 15 | It is sometimes called the Total Period Fertility Rate ( TPFR ) or Total Fertility Ratio or Index , as it is not strictly a ‘ rate ’ . |
| 16 | ( The rate of return on an additional investment is sometimes called the marginal efficiency of investment or MEI . ) |
| 17 | The ‘ something else ’ that happens in meetings is sometimes called the informal structure and it is about the politics of decision-making . |
| 18 | So is what is sometimes called an open conditional : If it is raining , the balcony is wet . |
| 19 | So it 's sometimes called the Scottish or Irish tonsure . |