Example sentences of "could be called a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of our decisions will have enduring practical implications of what could be called a moral sort . |
| 2 | For example , the Laki eruption taken as a whole constitutes a splendid example of a fissure eruption , but along its twenty-five kilometre length dozens of small volcanic cones were built up , none of them very big , although each one , if considered separately , could be called a central vent volcano . |
| 3 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 4 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 5 | It would be totally random , so it could be called a random walk . |
| 6 | Just as ‘ balloon ’ rhymes with ‘ moon ’ , so we might say that ‘ some chairs ’ has what could be called a tonal rhyme with ‘ some ’ . |
| 7 | Robbins ’ Dances at a Gathering could be called a romantic ballet because it uses classical technique coloured by natural emotional expression . |
| 8 | An alternative science — what could be called a psychodynamic science — has been described as the study of live objects which are seen , experienced and recognised subjectively in contrast to traditional sciences which study ‘ objects only ’ : |