Example sentences of "[det] was called the " in BNC.

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1 The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began .
2 On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum .
3 On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register .
4 This was called the ‘ Cuban Crisis ’ and could have meant the start of World War Three .
5 that was called the maiden sheaf .
6 That always used to be a fortnight to three weeks to unload a ship but this one ship , that was called , I remember that was called the lovely ship and that had been bombed , that had a bomb drop right on the .
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