Example sentences of "are called [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , from the sound business point of view , we can only recycle glass , because we get what are called recycling credits , which is that the County Council gives us fifteen pounds a ton at the moment . |
| 2 | For years the Japanese have tried to match IBM by selling what are called plug compatibles . |
| 3 | Such frames are called PPON frames . |
| 4 | These are called OverDrive chips . |
| 5 | A greater proportion of the mare rocks resemble basalts on the Earth and are called mare basalts . |
| 6 | The auditors owe a duty of care to the shore share holders collectively , not to individual share holders or what are called stake holders , employees for example , er nor do auditors have a general duty so far as the public interest is concerned . |
| 7 | They are called PROFIT — Programme for Research On Field-oriented Improved recovery Technology — and RUTH — Reservoir Utilisation though advanced Technological Help . |
| 8 | Test factors which are either positively related to both the other variables or negatively related to both of them are called enhancer variables . |
| 9 | Of the studies done by psychologists , one might begin by referring to those conducted by Mandler and Johnson on what are called story grammars . |
| 10 | The received waves are called radar echoes and they can carry the various categories of information that can be borne by any em wave , as outlined in section 3.1.2 , though planetary temperatures can not normally be extracted by radar . |
| 11 | In general , variables that are brought into the picture and controlled are called test factors . |
| 12 | In fact , in about 1971 there was a sudden spate of development in this area , and both the University Library and what was then Brighton Public Library and West Sussex all were innovators in those days , using computer-based lending systems , which used little cards with lots of little holes in them and — I am sure they are familiar to lots of people — in the last few years you 'll have seen those holes replaced by sort of zebra stripes erm what are called bar codes in the trade , and those bar codes you 'll also see on your groceries all over the place . |
| 13 | One of his bands are at the Paprika tonight ; they are called Dance Lance and they consist of three limber , head-shaven , androgynous boys who all knight themselves with the same name , which is Ron . |
| 14 | Languages such as the above are called tone languages ; although to most speakers of European languages they may seem strange and exotic , such languages are in fact spoken by a very large proportion of the world 's population . |
| 15 | The instructions needed to set the printer into bit-image mode are called escape codes because each instruction is preceded by the ASCII code 27 which is generated by the ESC or ESCAPE key on a terminal keyboard . |
| 16 | These steeply-inclined belts or zones of earthquake sites are known now to exist all round the Pacific ; they are called Benioff zones , after their discoverer , the seismologist Hugo Benioff . |
| 17 | The macroscopic quantities that describe the state of a thermodynamic system are called state variables or state functions . |
| 18 | I mean if you put your hand up to the sun you can feel it , you detect it , your eyes detect it , well you have detectors which detect them and , for example , if I want to detect something like an electron well then I can make a counter which is sensitive to charged particles like electrons , and I can allow these electrons to hit this counter and it will produce erm an identifiable electrical pulse and I can look at that and I can say this is an electron , or I can look at other particles , say , for things like helium nuclei which are called alpha particles , and I can make counters which will detect these and I can put a little piece of paper in front and I can stop off the alpha particles . |
| 19 | These low , broad cones are called ash rings . |
| 20 | The wing chun butterfly knives are called baht jam do , which translates roughly as ‘ eight-cutting broadswords ’ . |
| 21 | These are called feature masks , and , as we have seen , they will stimulate feature detectors , and hence affect letter detectors , but they will not penetrate to the word detector level . |
| 22 | Industries with this freedom from having to be near power supplies , or bulky raw materials , are called foot loose . |
| 23 | Components that transform in the manner of eqn ( 5.1 ) are called vector or contravariant components . |
| 24 | These are called imbrikia and come in various sizes . |
| 25 | Cos all adults are called auntie and uncle are n't they as well because |
| 26 | They are called spectator ions . |
| 27 | These assumptions about ourselves in relation to others are called life positions because they tend to dictate the positions we take up throughout life . |
| 28 | And although the arrangements made at Clovis 's death certainly set a precedent , it did not ensure the succession of all Merovingian males , despite Gregory of Tours 's famous dictum that " all boys born of kings are called king 's sons " . |
| 29 | Problems in the form of this example are called constraint satisfaction tasks . |
| 30 | These predisposed combinations are called co-occurrence relations or collocations , and account for a large proportion of English word combinations [ Smadja , 1989 ] . |