Example sentences of "what be called [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of the studies done by psychologists , one might begin by referring to those conducted by Mandler and Johnson on what are called story grammars . |
| 2 | The auditors owe a duty of care to the shore share holders collectively , not to individual share holders or what are called stake holders , employees for example , er nor do auditors have a general duty so far as the public interest is concerned . |
| 3 | Er , from the sound business point of view , we can only recycle glass , because we get what are called recycling credits , which is that the County Council gives us fifteen pounds a ton at the moment . |
| 4 | In fact , in about 1971 there was a sudden spate of development in this area , and both the University Library and what was then Brighton Public Library and West Sussex all were innovators in those days , using computer-based lending systems , which used little cards with lots of little holes in them and — I am sure they are familiar to lots of people — in the last few years you 'll have seen those holes replaced by sort of zebra stripes erm what are called bar codes in the trade , and those bar codes you 'll also see on your groceries all over the place . |
| 5 | For years the Japanese have tried to match IBM by selling what are called plug compatibles . |
| 6 | An alternative way of dealing with the problem of observational equivalence is to impose a priori what are called exclusion restrictions . |
| 7 | However , in 1984 there was a remarkable change of opinion in favor of what are called string theories . |
| 8 | In market research what are called focus groups are sometimes used for initial exploratory discussions on new brands or new packaging under quasi-laboratory conditions . |
| 9 | One of the absolutely necessary qualities of any writer of fiction is the possession of what is called empathy , the ability to see life through the eyes of people very different from oneself . |
| 10 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 11 | We 've underlining them , italicizing them , whatever this is what is called character formats and these are eliminated or removed with the alt space bar . |
| 12 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 13 | This can , however , introduce what is called category error ; people in the category ‘ below median income ’ do not all have identical incomes . |
| 14 | At a level above that there is what is called machine code : one whose lines are normally instructions to add or subtract or shift the contents of whole registers ( themselves strings of binary numbers ) . |
| 15 | A good deal of philosophical writing about what is called intentionality suggests that it is likely that this line of objection , that objects or contents are sometimes missing , has another wholly different root , in a certain confusion . |
| 16 | Then comes what is called gravity separation . |
| 17 | ( 3 ) There is a modern attempt to defend what is called objectivism in ethics which turns on viewing both facts and values as essentially social constructs which are what they are because they are either what society drills us into accepting or what exceptional individuals can persuade us follow from the procedures we have been drilled into accepting as correct . |
| 18 | Those groups who make up what is called public opinion are always " a collective mediocrity " ( p. 131 ) . |
| 19 | An important consequence of this is that one can observe what is called interference between two sets of waves or particles . |
| 20 | This kind of puzzle is not merely of interest to intellectuals who study what is called game theory , an area of mathematics advanced by John von Neumann , who also happens to be the father of the stored program computer . |
| 21 | There was an impression that my milkmaid friend was what is called well-connected , and I am glad to say that as she grew old she was , as it were , gathered in , to be near her relatives . |
| 22 | Man is increasingly wretched , humiliated , alone and oppressed by those economic , political , legal and law enforcement powers which are the reality of what is called destiny . |
| 23 | One of the quantitative consequences of this which I mentioned last week and I , I think may have been misunderstood is what is called variance of reproductive success . |
| 24 | Providing you stick to your diet , and do n't consume lost of extra calories , you get what is called calorie deficit . |
| 25 | In the various judgments that have been made in the High Court by Mr. Justice Brown , no contempt was found against officials or my hon. Friend for what is called phase 1 and phase 2 . |
| 26 | Now there 's a word that covers that and that the the choice of words based on on getting it right for the audience particularly in terms of jargon is what is called wordsmith . |
| 27 | Much of the $50 million of software exports in 1980 consisted of what is called conversion work : the recoding of programs so that they can be transferred from one computer to another . |
| 28 | There has been some suggestion that computer trading techniques have been partly responsible for the crash ( or what is called programme trading ) . |
| 29 | The Spanish Prime Minister has already said — it was said also by the Portugese at Maastricht — that their ratification will depend on more money for what is called cohesion and structural funds . |
| 30 | In my research , I investigated the introduction of microelectronically controlled machines in engineering firms involved in what is called batch production . |