Example sentences of "[noun pl] [was/were] call [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Battlefields were called the Lands of Badb , and her appearance was anxiously sought to determine omens . |
| 2 | The six brothers ' direct descendants were called the che gaon ki gor ( six village clan ) and similarly the artisans and their descendants were the twelve village clan , the labourers were the twenty four village clan and right near the bottom of the caste hierarchy came the shoemakers with their clan of ‘ several ’ villages . |
| 3 | These two judges were called the horse and the hen , because it was said , they needed to have the swiftness of the one and the vigilance of the other . |
| 4 | The method of resolution which begins with causes and demonstrates their consequent effects was called the ‘ method of proof or demonstration ’ ; so the direction or ‘ the order of proof or of things ’ goes ‘ from causes to effects ’ . |
| 5 | In the mysteries of the temples of Ancient Egypt and in Greece where the teachings were called the Hermetic Gnosis . |
| 6 | Until now , the role of the brain regions associated with Alzheimer 's disease has been little understood ; they are part of what for years was called the ‘ substantia innominata ’ ( region without a name ) because it had no known purpose . |
| 7 | The outer shell of these bottle-shaped kilns was called the ‘ hovel ’ . |
| 8 | At the back of Odness the houses were called the Westness . |
| 9 | The police were called the next day . |
| 10 | The next thing he knew , the Thames Valley Police were calling the landlords as prosecution witnesses in " Operation Major " — dubbed " The Sting " by a tabloid newspaper — after the police had arrested hundreds of their tenants ( all claimants ) for allegedly defrauding the DHSS , by supposedly drawing social security to pay their rent when they were actually not paying any . |
| 11 | She had brought a case for legal compensation for her dead children 's lives and for her own suffering and one of her few recorded public utterances was to call the first offer of compensation " pitiful " . |
| 12 | The maiden 's the we what we called the maiden was the last sheaf , it was cut er the last sheaf in the on the er on the fields was called the maiden sheaf . |
| 13 | Commentators were calling the results ‘ a political earthquake ’ . |
| 14 | One of his first papers was called the neuro psychoses of defence , and defence meant fending something away from consciousness , what he later called repression . |
| 15 | A mutation that became popular in Victorian times was called the ‘ Moss Rose ’ because of a minute thorny , moss-like growth that forms on and around the bud scales , in some cases very heavily , and which is coloured . |
| 16 | Each of these future estates was called a remainder . |