Example sentences of "[conj] are called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before we leave this topic , with some doubtless well-received witticisms about the American ateliers that are called Schools of Creative Writing , let us ask ourselves how an artistic tradition is transmitted from generation to generation in England , if it is not transmitted in the way that Pound took for granted . |
| 2 | There is no correlation at all between the number of types of relatives that are called by the same word and the number of legitimate sexual partners in marriage . |
| 3 | Interest has centred on the role of two small groups of cells , one on either side of the brain , that are called the suprachiasmatic nuclei ( SCN ) . |
| 4 | There are also thousands upon thousands of close and interdependent relationships between species , and these are the kind that are called symbiotic . |
| 5 | It is at work in all relationships that are called symbiotic — for instance the ants milking their aphid ‘ cattle ’ ( page 181 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ We have some clients that are called mildly muddled who are perfectly capable of going out and may get lost , but that 's an assessed risk . |
| 7 | Look at the fears/wishes that are called up in ‘ Fitcher 's Bird ’ : the fear of being enchanted , of having one 's own will overcome by that of another ; the fear of being punished for one 's curiosity , one 's will-to-know ; the fear of being locked forever in the bloody chamber . |
| 8 | Apart from those exercise classes that are called " Aerobics ' , there are many other forms of exercise that qualify . |
| 9 | Herodotus gave two ultimately contradictory reasons for spending so much of his time on it , first that " the Egyptians in most of their manners and customs exactly reverse the common practice of mankind " ( 2.35 ) , and secondly that the Greeks derived so many of their religious and scientific notions from the Egyptians that even those " that are called followers of Orpheus and of Bacchus are in truth followers of the Egyptians and of Pythagoras " ( 2.81 ) . |
| 10 | If qualification is hard to define , it is because it is one of the fundamental notions that are called on in building linguistic structures ; it is one member of a subsystem which in its essence will actually reduce to three terms : qualification , equation ( on which see Section 1.7 ) , and absence of relation . |
| 11 | And the more poor little Britain takes a battering , the more bombs that are called down on the wreck of London , the sooner it will be . |
| 12 | The kind of inferences that are called implicatures are always of this special intended kind , and the theory of implicature sketches one way in which such inferences , of a non-conventional sort , can be conveyed while meeting the criterion of communicated messages sketched in Grice 's theory of meaning-nn . |
| 13 | The , is one of the most common words in English and , to set up , the , all the time , would be very time consuming , and so this symbol was obviously available to the printer and obviously what it spells out is ye , which you now know from pubs that are called things like Ye Olde erm , Hen , and and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | And those forget-me-nots that are called blue ball and are supposed to have brilliant blue flowers , they 're coming out with erm tiny pinkey , purpley flowers . |
| 15 | Children who have been integrated into mainstream schools can return at any time for help and are called back at six-monthly intervals for checks . |
| 16 | Most occupational schemes pay a proportion of your earnings when you retire and are called final earnings schemes . |
| 17 | Left-handed shells are sometimes found produced in this way and are called ultradextral or hyperstrophic ( and no doubt left-handed mutations of L. peregra are also found looking like normal righthanded snails ; hyperstrophic also but now ultrasinistral ) . |
| 18 | Some part of an organism 's chromosomes have a high rate of turnover of genes , and are called ‘ hot spots ’ which locally have a very high mutation rate . |
| 19 | Private agencies deal with temporary and permanent employment and are called Vikarbureauer . |
| 20 | The colours are bright and are called fluorescent to distinguish them from the normal opaque colours in the usual felt-tip pens . |
| 21 | A greater proportion of the mare rocks resemble basalts on the Earth and are called mare basalts . |
| 22 | These paragraphs each begin with the word ‘ whereas ’ , and are called ‘ recitals ’ . |
| 23 | Such effects owe their origin to gradients in the field and are called tidal effects . |
| 24 | Some or all of the authorized shares will be issued to shareholders ( and are called issued shares or called-up shares ) , with an issue price which can exceed the par value but can not be less than the par value . |
| 25 | Although the majority of weakly electric fish , in both the African and the South American groups , give their electric discharges in discrete pulses and are called " pulse " species , a minority of species in both groups do it a different way and are called " wave " species . |
| 26 | Although the majority of weakly electric fish , in both the African and the South American groups , give their electric discharges in discrete pulses and are called " pulse " species , a minority of species in both groups do it a different way and are called " wave " species . |
| 27 | Children … are not endued with Reason at all , till they have attained the use of speech but are called Reasonable Creatures for the possibility apparent of having the use of Reason in time to come . |
| 28 | The forms are termed the deviatoric parts of the respective tensors , while are called the dilatational parts . |