Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had studied the plays exhaustively , and published in 1765 a new edition whose Preface has been called the most famous Shakespearean essay ever written . |
| 2 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 3 | The temperature at which a phase change occurs is called the transition temperature ( see section 3.2 ) . |
| 4 | The dimension measured is called the variate and may be any physical quantity . |
| 5 | The dimension measured is called the variate and may be any physical quantity . |
| 6 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 7 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 8 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 9 | This head of claim has been called the ‘ walk away ’ category . |
| 10 | 1932 was a momentous year in Chiswick , which had found itself almost isolated and unable to expand due to the River Thames cutting it off from the County of Surrey , and the boundary of Hammersmith to the east , being also the boundary with the London County Council ; with little or no contact or matters of interest with Acton to the north , but nevertheless a narrow link with Brentford , to the west ( Chiswick High Road had been called the Brentford Road for very many years ) , which link was considerably enhanced by the construction of the Great West Road . |
| 11 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 12 | History has been called the science of the future , so it seems a pity that this body of research comes up with virtually none of the solutions to the problems plaguing the American energy scene . |