Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where this has been done in the UK these natural monopolies are called nationalized industries , and we discuss them more fully in the next chapter . |
| 2 | These groups are called different fishes ' names , such as octopus , eel , cod , shark and salmon . |
| 3 | Such waves are called electromagnetic waves . |
| 4 | Basins located in continental interiors are sometimes referred to as intra-cratonic basins while those located along continental margins in intra-plate settings are called passive margin basins . |
| 5 | Her shops are called Shabby Chic and the most successful one to date is in New York , where ‘ life is so hectic and claustrophobic that people aspire to making their home as comfortable and pleasant as they can . ’ |
| 6 | Such variables are called GLOBAL . |
| 7 | In Scotland , the closest equivalent to English and Welsh grammar schools were called senior secondary schools , while the equivalent of secondary moderns were junior secondary schools . |
| 8 | The stress in these words is called secondary stress . |
| 9 | Such mixtures are called zeotropic . |
| 10 | These changeable areas are called intertidal zones . |
| 11 | Radiation damage owing to random effects are called stochastic and are not normally predictable . |
| 12 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 13 | Such pairs of lines are called parallel lines . |
| 14 | Such flat lines are called horizontal lines . |
| 15 | The loss of people in the country areas is called rural depopulation . |
| 16 | Money balances held for these two purposes are called active balances : money to be used as a medium of exchange . |
| 17 | Ants are called social insects because they live in large colonies . |
| 18 | The laws and theories that make up scientific knowledge all make general assertions of that kind , and such statements are called universal statements . |
| 19 | Historically , these gases were called inert because it was thought they did not form any chemical compounds . |
| 20 | The two main buildings were called Main School and Bede House . |
| 21 | The profit a retailer makes before deducting these costs is called gross profit . |
| 22 | The report , which in previous years was called British Lifestyles , shows the trends set over the last ten years and predicts changes in the next decade . |
| 23 | Such bar detectors are called resonant detectors . |
| 24 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 25 | Ultimately the universe in its totality is in some sense perfect , as also are its elements understood as required by the overall nature of that totality , but from the point of view of us who struggle within it things are called good or bad ( or by some such words ) according as to whether they promote our particular struggle to actualise our own nature . |
| 26 | ONE OF Peter Flannery 's earliest plays was called Savage Amusement . |
| 27 | There is a short Reynolds number range over which localized regions of turbulence neither spread nor decay ; the resulting features are called turbulent puffs and have a characteristic structure . |
| 28 | Within a single ontological cluster C one can use all the elements of S to distinguish subclasses of C. When a training set TS is a subset of C , and all the tests made on instances use only functions and predicates from S , then the invented clusters are called simple . |
| 29 | The antigens are called human lymphocyte A ( HLA ) antigens . |
| 30 | Swiss Brownies are called Little Bees . |