Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] is call " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The success of the unification of the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces led to a number of attempts to combine these two forces with the strong nuclear force into what is called a grand unified theory ( or GUT ) .
3 and then nearly next door to the conservative club , the chap that 's hiring the minibus from us is called The Horse Fayre Tavern .
4 Right now you must be able to recognise in , either a structural formula or a condensed formula you must be able to recognise existence of what is called and asymmetric centre if you are a chemist kiral centre if you are a super chemist if you are a biologist an atom bonded to different ones .
5 In engineering it is usual to test materials for toughness by means of a routine impact test of what is called the ‘ Izod ’ type .
6 In an interview on Sept. 29 , Kotai rejected ( i ) the document 's call for " the consolidation of what is called socialist property " ; and ( ii ) references to " the gaining ground of revanchism , neo-fascism and neo-Nazism in " certain countries ' " , which Kotai said implicitly but wrongly included West Germany .
7 These same forces will also further distance the underclass from the vast majority of the population , many of whom now have a stake in what is called ‘ people 's capitalism ’ .
8 From the Friarfold Vein complicated branch veins run off in all directions in what is called a ribbon deposit .
9 Logs of coniferous trees are ground down to produce a cellulose fibre for what is called mechanical wood pulp , used to make cheap paper such as newsprint .
10 This was the issue of the steadily rising costs for what is called the ‘ back end ’ of the uranium fuel cycle — the reprocessing of spent fuel , the handling of wastes at the Sellafield works and the dismantling of the reactors at the end of their lives .
11 However , with the growth in emphasis on the importance of what is called " affective devotion " — that is , experienced , rather than intellectual , knowledge of the faith — meditation came to refer to an exercise not necessarily based directly on Scripture but designed to stir the will by an intense appeal to the emotions through meditations on the manhood of Christ .
12 Hypnosis takes place in what is called the Alpha state ( the subconscious mind ) .
13 The only way around these is the following peculiar prescription : One must add up the waves for particle histories that are not in the " real " time that you and I experience but take place in what is called imaginary time .
14 We are fascinated by the wary our ‘ smart weapons ’ are mobilised to ‘ knock out ’ and ‘ take apart ’ , to ‘ neutralise ’ and ‘ cleanse ’ , enemy targets in what is called the ‘ theatre ’ of Iraq and Kuwait .
15 Later we read a quotation from what is called a ‘ characterisation package ’ :
16 There are alternatives to what is called " the lecture system " — hardly an apt name , since anything less systematic or coherent than the uses made of a college lecture would be hard to find .
17 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 .
18 They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma .
19 All the information about an object is stored on the computer within what is called a hierarchical database , meaning simply that the information is broken down from broad categories such as ‘ geography ’ into more specific ones such as ‘ continent ’ , ‘ country ’ , ‘ region ’ and so on .
20 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 .
21 The road , resumed south from Wolhusen , leads in 8km ( 5 miles ) to the pretty village of Entlebuch through what is called the Entlebuch valley , although the river which actually traverses it is the Little Emme river referred to above .
22 In relation to the ‘ content versus form ’ issue , it is perhaps worth mentioning a possible link with the more general debate about what is called ‘ moral reasoning ’ .
23 The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time , something that distinguishes the past from the future , giving a direction to time .
24 Later , when the infant becomes capable of relating to whole objects , such as the mother instead of just the breast , it develops more integrative mechanisms in terms of what is called the depressive position .
25 The constant use of what is called the ‘ feminine cadence ’ is a particular rhythmic feature .
26 One of these is that it is easier to do the sum if one deals with histories in what is called imaginary time rather than in ordinary , real time .
27 Similarly , for those workers moving off unemployment pay and into work , the effects of tax , loss of income support , plus the additional cost of going to work , have given rise to what is called the ‘ unemployment trap ’ .
28 Although the Spirit of the Lord has permeated the church through what is called ‘ charismatic renewal ’ , and although it is like leaven in a lump which has begun to spread its influence , there are still many parts of the church unreached and unaffected .
29 I know of hospitals putting people into private nursing homes immediately after their operation for what is called ‘ post-operative care ’ . ’
30 Perhaps the new aggressive political style of what is called here , as elsewhere , ‘ the disabled movement ’ — as if we all spoke with one voice — will force through changes for the better , but I have my doubts .
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