Example sentences of "a [noun] [pron] [be] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | This the Trojans did , and as a result they were called Franci , which the author thought was the Attic for " fierce " . |
| 2 | The Count of Eu holds in demesne a manor which is called Hou . |
| 3 | One of them , I seem to recall , was concerned with a cow coming down the lane — which lane was never specified — and meeting a child who was called ( I am embarrassed , inevitably , to recollect this in maturity ) some such name as Baby Tuckoo . |
| 4 | I once worked with a teacher who was called out six times in an hour to deal with comparatively trivial problems ( certainly trivial compared with the slaying of the Minotaur ) . |
| 5 | As a group they are called the Protozoa . |
| 6 | now we already know that there was a meeting which was called fairly promptly for the Monday of the following week which would have been the eleventh , did you attend that meeting ? |
| 7 | The first upheaval produced a hill which was called Sin-Zan , or ‘ Roof Mountain ’ ; the second , logically enough , was called Showa Sin-Zan , or ‘ New Roof Mountain ’ . |
| 8 | Occasionally , when I am ironing , I consider the possibility of having a constituency which is called Mitcham , Morden and Mole Valley . |
| 9 | Would we have a procedure which was called er , continuous surveys , which as paragraph one dealt with this and as paragraphs two onwards dealt with T G I ? |
| 10 | A man who was called an enigma in Mouncy Street , a poor old fellow in Decimus Street , and a proper bastard in Paradise Street . |
| 11 | In a word it 's called convenience . |
| 12 | Just seal them up with a fuck it 's called ? |
| 13 | Again and again and again , one comes to a thing which is called ‘ the hook ’ in the trade . |
| 14 | I think communications has been the biggest change that I saw , erm er from a system which was called the DX system , which is really a very primitive way of calling people by means of generating electric current over some private wires , to fireman 's houses and on to fire station . |
| 15 | This was Telford 's answer to a problem he was called in to solve . |
| 16 | And a Fuchsia which is called Superstar . |
| 17 | Still talked about in the glens is Angus MacGillivray , an ancient who was called in to settle a territorial dispute with a neighbour . |