Example sentences of "so called [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty thousand pounds extra for the voluntary sector at a time when a recession , when so called but completely un care in the community is putting a tremendous burden of responsibility both on the voluntary sector and on we know what a good job the voluntary sector do in this city thousand pounds is a small proportion of the money that they are actually requesting from us . |
| 2 | So called although prior to the reorganisation of local government boundaries in 1974 , the road was almost wholly within the neighbouring county of Ross and Cromarty . |
| 3 | Keg beers — so called because they are kept in sealed and pressurised containers called kegs — are therefore injected with carbon dioxide and connected to cylinders of CO 2 ; in the pub cellar . |
| 4 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 5 | In New Zealand 's ’ King Country' — so called because of the Maori kings who fought a guerrilla war against the settling English — Maori lads fresh from rounding up the droves of merino sheep from the bush clad hills would have a night out in the one horse town and go to the fleapit . |
| 6 | Smock or frock mills are so called because their shape is said to resemble a man dressed in a smock . |
| 7 | ‘ The Hagge ’ , as it is referred to locally , is built of Millstone Grit , so called because being hard and tough it was used to crush the corn in Pennine village mills . |
| 8 | This is the most familiar group , so called because many have a dark ring or zone on the foliage . |
| 9 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 10 | The ‘ Q.R. ’ was the Quiet Room , where specific researches were carried out — so called because of its distance from , and dissimilarity to , the Decoding Room where the clattering , devilish Enigma machine decrypted the intercepts received from nearby wireless stations . |
| 11 | To the north the Celts were arising in central Europe , chiefly expanding northward , but also crossing the Alps to replace the Golasecca culture around the lakes and founding the Gaulish city of Mediolanum , so called because of its position in the centre of the Lombardy plain . |
| 12 | The most important building was the Broletto or Palazzo della Ragione , the Righteous House , so called because the judges for both civil and penal cases sat there . |
| 13 | There is a room of ceramics , including pieces from the Miessen , Doccia and Capodimonte factories , and then the Black Room , so called because its walls were originally covered with ebony inlaid with ivory . |
| 14 | In the courtyard is the Madonna of the Mouse , so called because of the mouse sitting on the shoulder of the baby . |
| 15 | Vic Wilcox has now , strictly speaking , left the city of Rummidge and passed into an area known as the Dark Country — so called because of the pall of smoke that hung over it , and the film of coaldust and soot that covered it , in the heyday of the Industrial Revolution . |
| 16 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |
| 17 | A space blanket , so called because it is a product of space research , is more efficient than an ordinary blanket . |
| 18 | The warehouses known as the ‘ Little Germany ’ are so called because of their flamboyant architectural style . |
| 19 | part of the yard of the Fleet Prison , so called because of a series of murals painted by a former prisoner . |
| 20 | so called because the weight of each of its ingredients — flour , butter , sugar , etc. — is 1 lb . |
| 21 | In Word the simplest memory is the ‘ scrap ’ — so called because it usually contains scraps of text . |
| 22 | In the second bay starting from the western end , northern side and up to the gangway , was H. Webb 's black gang , so called because everything they dealt with was black in colour . |
| 23 | The Wolf-Man — so called because of a dream involving wolves which Freud interpreted as a memory of his parents having sex — saw Freud for an hour a day , every day except Sundays , for four years . |
| 24 | LOST-WAX casting is so called because the object to be cast is first modelled in wax ( over a clay core if the casting is to be hollow ) . |
| 25 | French Tomatoes are so called because in the traditional recipe French cream cheese is used in place of the low fat cottage cheese . |
| 26 | Having set the backlight , bring in the key light , so called because it provides the photographic modelling and sets the general level of exposure . |
| 27 | On into the Room Without a Name they had passed and through to the room it communicated with , the Room of Astonishment , so called because it had a cupboard in it with a little staircase inside that wound its way up into the loft . |
| 28 | It 's so called because the electrical vibratory massager has a choice of five heads according to the intensity of the massage and which part of the body is to be treated . |
| 29 | After all James was of the Stewart dynasty , so called because his ancestor Robert had been High Steward of Scotland , and had succeeded to the throne on the death of David II in 1371 . |
| 30 | A bastion of male privilege on the rocky Dublin shoreline , so called because of the water depth . |