Example sentences of "are called [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Local education authorities in Northern Ireland are called Education and Library Boards , and are responsible for the local provision and administration of schools and further education , as well as university awards . |
| 32 | Such systems are called expert systems . |
| 33 | These are called trading estates . |
| 34 | These areas of " dead " memory are called garbage . |
| 35 | Suppressor variables such as this which are strong enough to reverse the sign of the relationship are called distorter variables . |
| 36 | Test factors which are positively associated with one variable and negatively with the other are called suppressor variables for this reason . |
| 37 | In market research what are called focus groups are sometimes used for initial exploratory discussions on new brands or new packaging under quasi-laboratory conditions . |
| 38 | Well we have some quality system procedures which were referred to earlier this morning and they are called nonconformance control , corrective action and internal audit . |
| 39 | The major groups into which we can fit almost all fossils from the Cambrian onwards , and all the living fauna , are called phyla ( singular : phylum ) . |
| 40 | And you can start on the new water tablets which are called Frusamide on Thursday . |
| 41 | However , in 1984 there was a remarkable change of opinion in favor of what are called string theories . |
| 42 | The closest equivalent to English and Welsh grammar schools are called grammar secondary schools ; they can , however , accept some fee-paying pupils . |
| 43 | Some are called Wine Shops , others Drink Stores apparently depending upon the neighbourhood . |
| 44 | Creatures that float near the surface of the seas are called plankton . |
| 45 | There are such genes and they are called segregation distorters . |
| 46 | The closest sorts of group are called keiretsu , and have familiar names like Mitsui , Mitsubishi , Sumitomo and so on . |
| 47 | They are called delta frames and , typically , may consist of no more than 5 kilobytes of data . |
| 48 | everything , all , mange tout , eat all , that 's why it 's called mange tout cos he eats everything , and mange tout peas are called mange tout cos you eat the pods , twit |
| 49 | That erm , am er fire brigade , that was the station that we went to this morning , they are called fire and rescue . |
| 50 | Those which are non-rivalrous in consumption — at least until congestion occurs — and excludable , such as road tunnels , motorways or parks , are called toll goods in Table 1 , since it is feasible to charge for them . |
| 51 | An alternative way of dealing with the problem of observational equivalence is to impose a priori what are called exclusion restrictions . |
| 52 | Alcohol appears to interfere with the segregation of chromosomes during egg maturation , resulting in embryos that have an abnormal number of chromosomes ( such embryos are called aneuploid ) . |
| 53 | Thousands of children are homeless — they are called street children . |
| 54 | Such voluntary transfers of possession are called bailment , and the person who so acquires possession is a bailee of the goods . |
| 55 | Women who have not borne any live children are called zero parity women ( or nullipara in the medical literature ) ; first parity women are those who have borne one live child but no more ( primipara ) ; and so on ( multipara ) . |
| 56 | Carbohydrates , proteins and fats are called fuel nutrients . |
| 57 | These large fish are called ferox , a distinct species of brown trout that make their living by eating their smaller brethren . |
| 58 | These four radionuclides are called radon daughters , and these radon daughters become attached to dust particles and are breathed into the lungs . |
| 59 | The LEAs created by the 1944 Act could set up new schools themselves ; these are called county schools . |
| 60 | Indeed , they do show rhythms in activity , waking , feeding requirements , bladder-emptying and body temperature — rhythms that all have a period between one and four hours and so are called ultradian . |