Example sentences of "[vb -s] called a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japan 's government is deeply opposed to what America 's trade representative , Mickey Kantor , has called a new policy geared to ‘ quantifiable results ’ for some products . |
| 2 | Now the boss of the provisionals ' counter intelligence department nicknamed ‘ the headhunters ’ has called a temporary halt to operations in North Belfast until the leak can be stemmed . |
| 3 | The Hindu BJP party has called a general strike today to protest against the arrest of two of its leaders , accused of inciting Hindus to tear down the mosque . |
| 4 | The local Nalgo branch has called a general meeting for tomorrow when members will be balloted on whether to withdraw their labour . |
| 5 | Michael Schenker has called a final halt to MSG after a twelve-year run . |
| 6 | The manoeuvring goes on : Boris Yeltsin appears to have backtracked slightly on the powers he has assumed to by-pass the Supreme Soviet , although he still intends to hold the planned referendum ; meanwhile the parliament has called a full session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to impeach the president , but there is uncertainty about whether the hardliners can actually muster a sufficient majority . |
| 7 | Mrs McGonagle has called a public meeting in the town 's Melmount Centre for Wednesday , June 2 , at 8pm . |
| 8 | Durham Indoor Bowls Club has called a public meeting at the Abbey Sports Centre , Pity Me , Durham , at 4.30pm on Saturday . |
| 9 | Barnet Supporters ' Association secretary Liz Ashfield has called a special meeting tomorrow , ( thurs ) , which Flashman has been invited to attend . |
| 10 | Hickel a strong supporter of the cull , has called a three-day wolf summit to discuss the issue and will make a final decision after the meeting . |
| 11 | What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side . |
| 12 | Er the other thing of course , when you 're down here we can carry on treating you with what 's called a temporary resident . |
| 13 | However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output . |
| 14 | Now because I 'll leave that for a moment right , so one way we may test the structural change , right , is to construct what 's called a dummy variable and a dummy variables in a wide variety of applications they can be used to er get rid of er outlying observations , very very high or very very low observations . |
| 15 | That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient . |
| 16 | That 's what 's called a relative computer . |
| 17 | But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it . |
| 18 | to flare up with exertion , i er and it has what 's called a diurnal rhythm so the body 's natural rhythms affect it . |