Example sentences of "to [be] called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to be called Shorty all through school because I am so small . |
| 2 | If a single phrase of Beethoven 's ninth symphony is sufficiently distinctive and memorable to be abstracted from the context of the whole symphony , and used as the call-sign of a maddeningly intrusive European broadcasting station , then to that extent it deserves to be called one meme . |
| 3 | ‘ the relationship that used to be called that of master and servant . |
| 4 | And I do not care to be called that . ’ |
| 5 | He was a tall , bony old man , with a long melancholy face and little bushy whiskers — ‘ lamb cutlets , ’ thought Breeze , for they were too small to be called ordinary mutton chops . |
| 6 | Bella did n't want to be called guilty ; her instinct was always for ambiguity . |
| 7 | It was horrible to be called boring . |
| 8 | And also got erm erm what used to be called seventy seven . |
| 9 | So you want them to be called interim fieldwork reports . |
| 10 | The immediate impact of the founding fathers of what came to be called revolutionary ‘ populism ’ was minimal . |
| 11 | These are to be called Standard Assessment Tasks ( SATs ) . |
| 12 | The relevant units of the matrix came to be called strategic business units ( SBUs ) . |
| 13 | In the Arctic , few northern polar taxa are sufficiently differentiated to be called endemic species . |
| 14 | However , not all attitudes expressed in value statements have the requisite stridency to be called moral . |
| 15 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 16 | The second tendency is what used to be called Black nationalism but is now fragmented into multiple varieties , each with its own claim to ethnic particularity . |
| 17 | Since that can not be effectively done under the law as it stands , there must be created a new body of law of the sort that has come to be called administrative law . |
| 18 | The new body was to be called Western European Union ( WEU ) . |
| 19 | Its two major parties scarcely deserve to be called political . |
| 20 | The scientists and philosophers — and I think it 's significant that scientific study used to be called natural philosophy — they think in a big way , about yesterday and tomorrow , about the whole great sweep of mankind in the world . |
| 21 | Lucky Jim is too confident a book to be called angry , its predominating mood a scorn for a stuffy old order about to be swept away ; but some of Amis 's later novels , such as Stanley and the Women ( 1984 ) , which was written by a sexagenarian , fizzle with fury . |
| 22 | Under the Net and Lord of the Flies are too philosophical to be called angry , Golding ( in any case ) was always seen to be a spirit apart , and a few of these authors were strikingly young at their moment of first success . |
| 23 | The emphasis of the shift teams — to be called operational maintenance teams — will be on site-wide preventative maintenance work . |
| 24 | He had a calm lean face never to be called handsome and if he looked up he would put on his quick protective smile to say Do n't ask about me I 'm all right talk about somebody else … |
| 25 | It is an additional fact , too important in practice to be called incidental but not necessary enough in theory to be called inevitable , that these causal arrows have become bundled up . |
| 26 | It has the difference , if there is the implication , that in many perhaps in most cases of AIDS , it could have been avoided by , what used to be called clean living . |
| 27 | They used to be called blue-green algae because they appeared to be close relatives of the green algae that are common in ponds , but now that their very primitive character is recognised , they are referred to as cyanophytes or simply , blue-greens . |
| 28 | From the creative interaction , came the new concept , which came to be called Educational Technology . |
| 29 | First there are contributory benefits , which used to be called national insurance benefits . |
| 30 | The new company was to be called British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB ) . |