Example sentences of "what [vb -s] be [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central finding is that the rising superiority of the Japanese is based , not on scale or factor costs , but on the creation of what has been dubbed a ‘ lean ’ system of production . |
| 2 | The Prime Minister 's press conferences have become increasingly crowded over the years in what has been dubbed The Blue Hole of Calcutta . |
| 3 | For these countries , the impacts of what has been dubbed the ‘ forced adjustment phase ’ ( Mentre , 1984 ) were reflected internally , with the main burden of adjustment often falling on wage-earners . |
| 4 | It seems necessary for it to have what has been called a ‘ cognitive map ’ in its head ; that is , it would have to have something which conveyed the same information as is conveyed by Figure 10 . |
| 5 | We now live in what has been called a ‘ turbulent environment ’ , which is characterized by increased levels of complexity , interdependence and uncertainty . |
| 6 | What happened was what has been called a ‘ negotiated redefinition ’ on the part of the respectable working class : there was no passive acceptance . |
| 7 | There may , however , have been a diminution in tribute and revenues from possibly less securely held border regions and it would be surprising if the political problems of this period were not at least a factor in what has been called a ‘ drastic economic collapse ’ |
| 8 | In those societies where the third estate was initially weak — and during its subsequent development in the nineteenth century became more clearly divided into distinct classes — the bourgeoisie , already threatened by the labour movement , embraced a more conservative type of nationalism , and the creation of a modern nation state based upon the capitalist mode of production was accomplished in a more authoritarian fashion by what has been called a ‘ revolution from above ’ ( Moore , 1967 ) . |
| 9 | Outside government , what has been called a ‘ young man 's consensus ’ was developing on the necessity of greater State intervention in both the economic and the social sphere . |
| 10 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 11 | In the context of the debate on continuation schools it can best be understood through an examination of two of its principal features , namely , political stability , which of necessity included social harmony , and what has been called the ‘ civic ideal ’ , which meant service to the community . |
| 12 | Tyner ( b. 1938 ) , another original and previously precocious American talent , was one fourth of what has been called the ‘ most influential quartet in jazz history ’ — namely John Coltrane of 1960–65 ( Coltrane , Tyner , Jimmy Garrison and Elvin Jones ) . |
| 13 | The principal fears engendered by what has been called the revolution in reproduction are created by ignorance ; and as George Corner , who helped to lay the foundations for the new reproductive technology , foresaw , lack of understanding leads to fears , inhibitions and blind taboos . |
| 14 | The effective transaction of communicative business requires the parties concerned to enter into a sort of social contract involving adherence to what has been called the ‘ Cooperative Principle ’ ( see Grice 1975 ) . |
| 15 | He was elected — in absentia — as chairman of the clandestine bishop 's conference established in November 1989 , as a gesture of respect from the leaders of what has been called the largest illegal religious group . |
| 16 | This has brought in a new dimension to recent thinking , and begun to raise sharp questions about what has been called the ‘ Latin captivity ’ of western theology . |
| 17 | Thinking and practice impose what has been called the ‘ sick role ’ ( Tuckett , 1976 ) on people with learning difficulties . |
| 18 | An example of this is shown in what has been called the ‘ Colditz Bicycle Game ’ . |
| 19 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 20 | This is particularly true of what has been called the functionalist theory of the family . |
| 21 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 22 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 23 | The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences . |
| 24 | This kind of thing , what has been called the ‘ roving anecdote ’ , makes it easy to recognize the tyrannical or other type , hard to get at the truth about an individual . |
| 25 | The immediate cause of the crisis is seen as the combination of different types of difficult prisoners — what has been called the ‘ toxic mix ’ of prisoners ( Home Office , 1994a : para 124 ) — in physically poor and insecure conditions which gives rise to an ‘ explosion ’ . |
| 26 | Though other accounts may be sought and presented , those in authority occupy a privileged position in what has been called the ‘ hierarchy of credibility ’ ( Becker , 1972 ) . |
| 27 | Their specific significance is that they form a crucial element in what has been called the ‘ self-production ’ of modern societies . |
| 28 | Readiness for war , as well as the actual waging of war , becomes a principal political concern , military leaders acquire a more prominent place in the political system , and the economy is geared increasingly to military needs , giving rise to what has been called the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ as one of the main centres of power and of economic growth . |
| 29 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 30 | He appears to have had a copy of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle similar to E , but the later part of his work is filled with romance , and might seem to belong to what has been called the twelfth-century fictionalising history best exemplified by Geoffrey of Monmouth 's Historia Britonum . |