Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] it [is] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well Else read out this bit from a book by Billy Graham , The Secret of 'Appiness it 's called , where 'e says that a man told 'im 'e only took a bath once a week , and Billy Graham told 'im there was something wrong with 'is purity of heart . ’ |
| 2 | Heroin ( smack , horse , H , Chinese — when combined with cocaine it is called a snowball ) . |
| 3 | When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) . |
| 4 | and like you 've got this chunk of shit being digested and it goes through down your canal via peristalsis it 's called a bolus . |
| 5 | In acupuncture it is called chi , in Ayurvedic medicine ( from India ) it is prana , in Reichian Psychotherapy it is orgone . |
| 6 | It is like half a bracket and in fact it is called a ket vector . |
| 7 | And whenever experience is pursued without hindrance it is called philosophy . |
| 8 | When academics delve into someone 's life it is called Biography ; when therapists posit theories on human behaviour it is called Psychology ; when sociologists ruminate on society it is called Sociology . |
| 9 | Yeah , we 've found something he likes for breakfast it 's called Quakerwake , it 's erm porridge with little bits of food in it |