Example sentences of "[noun sg] called a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Atrium A large hall , lit by an opening in the centre of the roof called a compluvium . |
| 2 | The disapproving mother was the reason the actress called a halt to her liaison with actor Mithun Chakraborty a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | The uniform consists of a long split skirt called a hakama , a special armoured breastplate , a full head mask , and thickly padded gloves . |
| 4 | The first cell releases a chemical called a neurotransmitter into the synaptic gap . |
| 5 | As a result of this pamphlet 's distribution , the Fintown Development Association called a meeting at Fintown Community Hall which was attended by several hundred people , with the local priest in the chair . |
| 6 | You may need a special large hexagonal key called a radiator spanner for this . |
| 7 | Miasms are now recognized to be both inherited and acquired ; and often a specific remedy called a nosode , which is related to the infection in question , is required before a chronic condition can be entirely cleared up . |
| 8 | At this stage the marc is like a solid cake which needs an instrument called a bêche plate to sever the mass into chunks which can then be forked into the centre of the maie . |
| 9 | Doctors carrying out a smear test , should use an instrument called a speculum to open the vagina to ensure that they can see the cervix when taking a sample with a specially shaped spatula . |
| 10 | These are , these sounds are measured on an instrument called a sound level meter . |
| 11 | This chapter explains the nature and purpose of an audit , outlines the main features of an audit report , compares and contrasts internal and external auditing and describes a particular type of audit called a contract audit . |
| 12 | Why is a non-pedigree cat called a moggie ? |
| 13 | I 'm also using Crown power amps and a MIDI controller called a Ground Control . ’ |
| 14 | The latter are made on a slowly-rotating machine called a cylinder-mould , and the resulting sheet closely resembles a hand-made sheet in appearance , though the deckle edges are generally more regular and less pronounced than those of a hand-made sheet . |
| 15 | After death , a machine called a ventilator keeps the blood circulating until the organs are removed . |
| 16 | ‘ I found the answer was a machine called a copy lathe . |
| 17 | ‘ I found the answer was a machine called a copy lathe . |
| 18 | While Lady Chatterley outrages viewers on BBC1 , and Carlton Television invest in a major three-part drama called A Woman 's Guide to Adultery ( to be screened in the autumn ) Ray has pulled off a major scoop now . |
| 19 | It eventually settles down on the bottom of the sea and grows into a tiny flower-like organism called a polyp . |
| 20 | Also , amplified hearing aids are bringing fresh hope to the chronically deaf , and a new device called a handtapper means they can put their hands on a moulded plate and receive manual signals activated on a keyboard many miles away . |
| 21 | A key component of Bristol 's research with Martin Pipe 's horses is a device called a forceplate . |
| 22 | He took up an idea from a previous inventor , an Englishman named Charles Babbage , namely the punched card , but designed an electro-mechanical device called a tabulator to ‘ read ’ the information contained on the card . |
| 23 | It 's best to use a device called a tiling gauge — a batten marked out in tile widths ( and spaces between tiles ) — to work this out . |
| 24 | After a discouraging start , they began thinking of a totally new approach — using a device called a magnetron . |
| 25 | A number of brewers now use a device called a cask breather on low volume beers to prolong their life . |
| 26 | Hurst cites the case of a slime mould in which , during sex , a gene within a little device called a mitochondrion causes its owner to fuse with mitochondria from the other parent and thus spreads to all the mitochrondria in the offspring . |
| 27 | The BA ( Hons ) design student has invented a poop-scooping device called a poopet , a cardboard contraption for disposing of dog dirt which is based on the principle of a puppet . |
| 28 | Richard Ryder , Parliamentary Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Food , Fisheries and Agriculture Shopping in a place called a health food shop does n't mean you can assume everything it sells is safe or healthy . |
| 29 | If erm , for example , I were to produce a beam of pye mesons , which I can do by taking very high energy protons and making them collide with ordinary hydrogen , then the pyon will come out and it will not live for very long , and I think the lifetime of a pyon is something of the order of ten to the minus eight of a second , which means that pyons only live for about one hundred millionth of a second , and these things then decay into othe particles and these other particles are called muons and they decay into not only do they produce muons , but they produce things called neutrinos and the muons themselves do not live for very long — a muon lives for about two microseconds , which is two millionths of a second — and it decays also into an electron and another neutral particle called a neutrionor , and these neutrinors just are there , they exist very but they are the end products of these decay processes . |
| 30 | Such a collection forms an unstable particle called a glueball . |