Example sentences of "was called [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was called silage and to the careful Orkney farmer it seemed all too good to be true . |
| 2 | The two boats were running along the coastline on almost parallel courses , Ewen close in , perforce following the jagged line of the shore , and our boat ( I found later that she was called Sea Otter ) on a straight course some way out . |
| 3 | The sixth one was called caterpillar it was two long planks of wood with poles coming out of it . |
| 4 | The area Provenzano and McIntosh covered was called South Central . |
| 5 | It was called Station . |
| 6 | The area now covered by the post-war rectory was called Paradise . |
| 7 | The site was called Torness Point . |
| 8 | It was called Tit for Tat , and was submitted by Professor Anatol Rapoport , a well-known psychologist and games theorist from Toronto . |
| 9 | Of course there was still love , there was healthy , growing love and its name was called Work . |
| 10 | House prices were like any other price — they were fuelled by too-easy credit , and when that happened , it was called inflation . |
| 11 | The headline band was called Girl With A Blue Guitar . |
| 12 | The Romans built a town and lodged their cohorts here , when what is now Bayonne was called Lapurdum ; a slight corruption of that name , Labourd , is still used , to refer to the most westerly and maritime of the three distinct provinces into which the French Basque country is split , of Labourd , Basse-Navarre and Soule . |
| 13 | It was called Bird of Freedom . |
| 14 | I had no idea that Chris Bastard 's wife was called Lavender . |
| 15 | The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community . |
| 16 | He said he was called Horn and he 'd popped across to see the Duke of Hamilton or somesuch . |
| 17 | The seaward dunes were shifting and unstable , spiked thinly with the mar ram that hereabouts was called Starr grass , giving the place its name . |
| 18 | The senior curate , who was Michael Ramsey , was called lecturer but his duties were no different . |
| 19 | — The fisherman was called Amadou . |
| 20 | And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo . |
| 21 | This new bond was called conditional ( upon training ) or conditioned . |
| 22 | It was it was called Hotel then . |
| 23 | ‘ The substance was called ethylene chlorohydrin if that means anything to you , sir . ’ |
| 24 | He was called Titch because he was a midget with a very large head and very short legs , and Uncle for reasons that were never satisfactorily explained to William , but then , not a lot ever was . |
| 25 | It was called Faith . |
| 26 | It was something that you had to swallow whole , like a stone of uncomfortable size , and the act of swallowing was called Faith . |
| 27 | They were gon na , my Dad said yeah well my one , no , my Dad 's one was called Rhino and the other one was called Elephant and their one died . |
| 28 | It was called prostaglandin , but in time was found to be a mixture of many related substances with very complex chemical and biological properties . |
| 29 | It was called determination . |
| 30 | Last night , the newest bard , who was called Lorcáin , had sung : a song to God , and one to the King . |