Example sentences of "[pron] [is] [adv] [adv] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | All atoms other than hydrogen can be detected and identified using X-ray excited photoelectron spectroscopy , which is therefore sometimes called Electron Spectroscopy for Chemical Analysis ( ESCA ) . |
| 2 | THE Dominican College , Portstewart has just produced a Diamond Jubilee Magazine , which is appropriately enough called Cliff Hanger because of the location of the school . |
| 3 | For instance , at the age of twenty one , Milton wrote a Latin poem , sixth of his Latin elegies and it 's therefore just called Elegia Sexta . |
| 4 | The payment is said by the respondent not to have been ‘ voluntary ’ but ‘ forced ’ from it within the contemplation of the law … ‘ compulsion ’ in relation to a payment of which refund is sort , and whether it is also variously called ‘ coercion , ’ ‘ extortion , ’ ‘ exaction ’ or ‘ force , ’ includes every species of duress or conduct analogous to duress actual or threatened , exacted by or on behalf of the payee and applied to the person or the property or any right of the person who pays … . |
| 5 | It is also sometimes called a theology of ‘ feeling ’ , and he himself uses this language . |
| 6 | If you have an existing Section 226 policy ( or retirement annuity contract , as it is sometimes also called ) , then , as you will know , it is an insurance policy designed to invest money for your retirement . |
| 7 | He took a pristine white handkerchief out of his pocket and rubbed at the faint hand-print Kenneth had left on the glass partition as he said , ‘ These passivation glasses are of much use in the semi-conductor industry , and we have high hopes that with the burgeoning of the Scottish computer industry Silicon Glen as it is sometimes jocularly called — we shall shortly be supplying … ’ |
| 8 | It is sometimes wrongly called a second-order transition but we shall show below that this is an incorrect use of language . |
| 9 | The commoner is that in which non-neural tissues are damaged and specific nerve endings ( nociceptors ) within them stimulated ; it is therefore usually called nociceptive pain . |
| 10 | A new dimension of communication education was added by Central Committee in 1989 , namely , Media Awareness Training , also known as Media Literacy , Media Pedagogy , Critical Reading or , as it is now usually called , Media Education . |
| 11 | The advent of the silicon chip , or integrated circuit , as it is more properly called has revolutionised the field of electronics . |
| 12 | Transmission teaching , or ‘ recitation teaching ’ as it is more commonly called in the United States , is so pervasive within the school system that it can easily be interpreted as the ‘ natural ’ or ‘ proper ’ way to teach , as a network of rules and procedures special to the teaching environment which must be learned , rehearsed and developed in a practical way by the new teacher in order to gain competent membership of the teaching community , and of the classroom order in particular . |
| 13 | These terms are all very descriptive , since the material which accumulates around a Strombolian vent does indeed look rather like boiler slag , but it is more correctly called scoria , and the cones which build up around the vent scoria cones . |
| 14 | Ideally , the golden spike ( or " marker point " as it is more prosaically called ) should be chosen in a section where sedimentation seems to have been as nearly continuous as is ever possible , where there are no marked lithological changes and where there are unbroken records of several different groups of fossils . |
| 15 | " He 's not really called that , is he ? " |
| 16 | xlvii , Against Euergos ) by pirates , local rowdies or litigants seeking what is nowadays politely called a ‘ remedy by self-help ’ ; in which case the answer was to take refuge inside the fortified central pyrgos or tower , whose foundations are still a feature of the Vari site . |
| 17 | The complexity of what is often misleadingly called the ‘ Darwinian revolution ’ can be judged by surveying the mixed fortunes of the theory of natural selection . |
| 18 | As Jon Savage has pointed out , pop video is , in fact , a good example of ‘ post-modern culture ’ , the product , in the words of Fredric Jameson , of ‘ a new type of social life and a new economic order — what is often euphemistically called … postindustrial or consumer society , the society of the media or the spectacle , or multinational capitalism ’ . |
| 19 | Of these two pads , the first normally consists of the Prologue , or exposition scenes ; the Entrance of the Chorus ( Parodos ) : and what is now generally called the Agon , a fierce ‘ contest ’ between the representatives of two parties or principles , which are in effect the hero and villain of the whole piece . |
| 20 | It will already be clear that in the contemporary convergence , with its deliberate extension and interlocking of hitherto separate ( if always related ) senses of culture , what is now often called ‘ cultural studies ’ is already a branch of general sociology . |
| 21 | The Zoology here , from what I have already seen , is likely to be of a most interesting description , totally different in its nature from that of Sydney , but probably approaching nearer in its character to the productions found beyond the Liverpool range , or what is more properly called the interior of New South Wales . ’ |
| 22 | If that suggests an odd set of priorities in what is still quaintly called a players ' game , at least the 21 wore the familiar red jersey with the famous crest , white shorts and blue and green socks . |
| 23 | Namibia continues to kill these animals in what is still variously called a harvest or a cull . |
| 24 | It contains a mechanism , perhaps a Quantum Mechanical mechanism or what is as fairly called a mystery-mechanism , such that everything might have gone on just the same up to some instant , let us say the instant when the bar appeared , and it might have happened instead at that instant that no bar appeared . |