Example sentences of "to be call [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Mrs Smith prefers to be called Ivy and not Mrs Smith , call her Ivy . |
| 2 | Oh he said he prefers to be called Liam or something . |
| 3 | Democratic consumerism is what used to be called participation before the term consumerism became fashionable . |
| 4 | But the men liked the giants ' tricks : one used to swallow and then regurgitate long arrows , as in a circus ; and another , who allowed himself to be called Juan and learned some biblical phrases , caught and ate all the rats and mice on board , to the entertainment of the men and the pleasure of the cook . |
| 5 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 6 | It used to be called Austin-Morris but changed its name to British Leyland and then Rover . |
| 7 | THE bookmaking barons like to be called Alfie or Len ; the people who run the Jockey Club , racing 's official regulator , prefer glossier titles . |
| 8 | Funded by the countries of the European Community and the European Free Trade Association , the new network is to be called EuropaNet and replaces IXI , the X25-based backbone network that has served the research community across Europe for the last two years . |
| 9 | Used to be called Brian and then it was that David fellow , anyway I said well I should n't bother to vote last time , anyway David n erm David Dennis said you will I 'll take you there so he took me |
| 10 | Bas said it ought to be called Chuck-up because it 's always being sick . ’ |
| 11 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 12 | an used to be called metermarism and I say , it 's not a word it 's not a term I 've seen on for many many years and you do n't seen it many erm modern organic texts . |
| 13 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |