Example sentences of "called [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awatinas ' most recent number one hit ; a song called Kullakita which means sister in the band 's native Aymara language . |
| 2 | A team led by Dr David Jones , of Bangor 's renowned School of Ocean Sciences , designed a revolutionary new feed , using a process called microencapsulation which puts a thin , digestible membrane around each tiny food particle . |
| 3 | The mallet belongs to a sixty-four-year-old fen labourer called Pascoe whose wife has disappeared . |
| 4 | They leased it to a man called William who was a goldsmith . |
| 5 | And finally there is a statement from a woman called Sarah who was at the time of these events , church and her statement can be read because there is nothing in dispute in it . |
| 6 | There was once a girl called Vasilissa whose mother had died , and whose father married again . |
| 7 | Somebody called Freeway Which is a lot of |
| 8 | ONE OF Japan 's greatest sumo wrestlers of all time , Chiyonofuji , bowed out of the ring for good last week , defeated by an 18-year-old called Takahanada who promises to become the youngest yokozuna ( grand champion ) of all time . |
| 9 | The sixth one was called caterpillar it was two long planks of wood with poles coming out of it . |
| 10 | asks , he gets it , it 's called Brad something special , brown |
| 11 | So we take our input pattern and we produce a vector here called T which we then present to this lot here . |
| 12 | Even the other two guests laugh — a woman called Pattie whose husband has just left her , and a man whose name Howard does n't quite catch . |
| 13 | We had a centre-half called Kitchen who specialised in sliding tackles designed to take the winger and the ball into touch . |
| 14 | I even bumped into Nicola Sharpe 's husband — a tedious man called Jim something . ’ |
| 15 | Anything else , for instance the ’ fact ’ that Socrates talked with Plato , depends ( from Socrates ' point of view ) on the assumption that there really was someone called Plato who often visited him . |
| 16 | We take in a lot more oxygen , our blood pressure rises and our brains release chemicals called endorphins which give us an immediate high . |
| 17 | Vitamin E is really a group of plant oils called tocopherols. they have the unique ability to prevent the deterioration that occurs in certain fats as a result of exposure to oxygen in the air , and so help to prevent deterioration of fats in the healthy body . |
| 18 | So , I was very disappointed , and on the way back to catch the bus on Parliament Street , I passed erm a shop called Jowers which was next to the Corner Pin , and er er although I was very nervous , I went in and ask if they wanted a tailoress . |
| 19 | Yeah it was something like that and he had a sister called Lisa who was about a year older than me and I used to be best friends with her . |
| 20 | It also has a variable called N whose value is the current node of interest . |
| 21 | They arrived safely and were met by the royal purveyor from Kinghorn ( also called Alexander ) who had brought horses down to the beach for the royal party ; these included the King 's favourite , a white mare called Tamesin which he had left at Kinghorn for the Queen 's own use . |
| 22 | Consultant pathologist Dr John Ryan said she was more susceptible to the cold because of a condition called hypothyroidism which slows down the body 's metabolism . |
| 23 | This will set up the structure of a relation called EMPLOYEE which has three attributes . |
| 24 | Nutty knew that Miss Bedwelty had a famous eventing niece called Biddy who rode at Badminton and was sometimes seen clearing vast hazards on television . |
| 25 | Together with the popular demonology associated in the public mind with these strange monsters called computers it produced a sudden upsurge of anxiety . |
| 26 | The focus for this second volume is his friendship with a boy called Edward who , while charming in many ways , proceeds to murder his mother . |
| 27 | And then that was a short stint that was , so that one horse , called Spring his name was , he was a smasher he was . |
| 28 | The film tells the true story of a Great Western employee called Bob who , along with many of his colleagues , sails to the continent to work on a light railway serving the trenches . |
| 29 | It 's a bit like that tape , what was that tape called , that was called Testarossa something . |
| 30 | In France the process by which the administrative and business elites give one another interesting employment is called pantouflage which literally means jumping in and out of one another 's trousers ( Birnbaum , 1981 ) . |