Example sentences of "it was call [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When I was at college I did a pastiche of the student magazine , doing the fold , and it was called Shell , so we renamed it for that one issue Rolling Shell , and I ever so carefully did the lettering for both the title boxes , then I got really disappointed when it came to set the type for the front page article underneath the big photograph which we printed as duo tone , because I could do it on the I B M — I could actually do it in Times and I thought it was going to be really , you know , I 'd have to really struggle and find
2 ‘ I thought you said it was called London . ’
3 It was called London Lights and won several races at White City .
4 It was called silage and to the careful Orkney farmer it seemed all too good to be true .
5 It was called Iwe Irobin fun awon ara Egba Yorubas ( ‘ the newspaper for Egba and Yoruba people ’ ) and was priced at 30 cowries !
6 It was called Professor Plop and the Timemachine .
7 And if you did it with real panache , and with a sense of luxury , it was called Gran Turismo .
8 It was called Frag , and it would be giving off enough psychochemical fragrance into their nostrils to keep there minds dislocated for a week .
9 It was called Faith .
10 It was called prostaglandin , but in time was found to be a mixture of many related substances with very complex chemical and biological properties .
11 The nearest flower shop was not far ; it was called Rose 's Garden and stood between a rather nice , old-fashioned type of coffee shop , called Memories , and a shop that sold reject china .
12 It was called Station .
13 It was called determination .
14 ( In France it was called Hein ? )
15 Once it was called Murias , and many stories were told of how it had sunk down from the upper world to Undersea .
16 I think maybe it was called Simon — I ai n't sure .
17 It was it was called Hotel then .
18 But they were very kind and they gave me a part in this play , it was called Tilly of Bloomsbury .
19 It was called El Misr and Lili exclaimed , ‘ Egypt again .
20 It was called Marienburg ( now Malbork ) .
21 It was called Tit for Tat , and was submitted by Professor Anatol Rapoport , a well-known psychologist and games theorist from Toronto .
22 ‘ It has no name , ’ Sapan said , ‘ but when I told some other people I brought here that it had no name , they said to me that it was called Narnia . ’
23 The shop , at 25A Dundas Street , has been trading for 11 years now — in an earlier incarnation it was called Lavender Menace — and is a valued addition to Edinburgh 's gay and lesbian community .
24 It was called Bird of Freedom .
25 House prices were like any other price — they were fuelled by too-easy credit , and when that happened , it was called inflation .
26 From the pink frilly garment , Clara would have deduced that the baby must be a girl , but she clearly remembered that it was called James .
27 Under the Rouxs , it was called Le Gamin and became known for inexpensive but elegant food in cramped surroundings .
28 It was called Le Perroquet .
29 Discovered in 1844 , it was called Peyronne 's chloride after its discoverer to distinguish it from another complex with the same formula , known as trans- DDP .
30 She made a deliberate detour past Miguel 's house on her way back to Monte Samana , and , without stopping , noted that it was called Casa Madrid .
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