Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [pron] [be] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 2 | Okay well there 's something we talk about a lot on the Action Line they 're called Fast Forward and they 're a training agency . |
| 3 | And then the it goes on about setting up the single but dynamic standards a setting system it 's called , divided into local level groups like a tier system , you get the Managing Director on the top and the ones at the bottom . |
| 4 | Prof Catford chaired yesterday 's Wrexham Medical Institute conference which was called by Clwyd Health authority to update researchers and professionals from across Wales on developments and trends . |
| 5 | And the other half used to go as a window leather which are called st |
| 6 | If the direction is reversed the defect is called a fold , while if the defect causes neither displacement nor reversal of direction but only a local disordering of the zigzag configuration it is called a kink . |
| 7 | It 's the Old Wine Shop it 's called . |
| 8 | You missed a couple off that proactive I think is the buzz word it 's called seem less production so . |
| 9 | Yeah well he 's got brass wire on the he just , special picture wire it 's called . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Tree vandalism it 's called eh ? |
| 12 | And you can start on the new water tablets which are called Frusamide on Thursday . |
| 13 | Up to this time , the Trinity Association which was called ‘ The Corporation of the Shipmasters of the Trinity House of Leith ’ had been a charitable institution but in 1797 it developed those functions with which it was to become chiefly associated , that of examining and licensing Pilots . |
| 14 | A good example of the latter is Signal toothpaste which was called Shield toothpaste . |
| 15 | Mark , 26 , is a former Army medic who was called up to man a field hospital during the Gulf War . |
| 16 | called a thought fox it 's called imagination |
| 17 | The church councils which were called in the first three decades of the fifteenth century gave each side reason and opportunity to seek support for its own attitude to the war before the remainder of Christendom . |
| 18 | Peer pressure it 's called . |
| 19 | If Leeds had been playing a better team they would n't have won but such is the game that you ca n't play the big boys everyday ( thank God ) and Leeds eventually , to the fans relief , and mine too , registered their first win in four games and hopefully gained a confidence booster both for their defence and for our new goalkeeper Beeney who was called on to make only two saves , important as they were . |
| 20 | Railway police they 're called are n't they ? |
| 21 | No they brought a new thing out , it 's not the poll tax it 's called something else int it ? |
| 22 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 23 | In market research what are called focus groups are sometimes used for initial exploratory discussions on new brands or new packaging under quasi-laboratory conditions . |
| 24 | Closet Republicans they are called by some , boll weevils by others . |
| 25 | On the plus side , the young , all-action staff are enthustiastic and remain good-natured despite the number of postcard messages they are called upon to deliver to your table — for you to follow-up your ( hopefully ) successful telephone chat . |
| 26 | This view is common to the ‘ Action Men ’ among Easton 's section police who are called upon to do what they consider is the job of the social services . |
| 27 | The well known city of Luzern , possibly one of the country 's greatest tourist attractions , lies at the head of the north-west arm , and the small town of Fluelen , gateway to the Gotthard Pass route , lies 38km ( 24 miles ) away at the end of the long south-east arm which is called the Urner Lake after the name of the Uri canton in which it lies . |