Example sentences of "[be] called [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She may live in a vicarage , but because she 's a woman Reverend Pinkerton ca n't be called a vicar . |
| 32 | Should such a union be called a marriage ? |
| 33 | Usually accompanied by a village or hamlet , such a caput may be called a villa regalis , but the terms aula , mansio and maerdref are also used . |
| 34 | One problem , however , is that only a subset of all texts do in fact have what might loosely be called a story structure . |
| 35 | Elsewhere the band choose what can only be called a hardcore bubblegum sound and by the time you get to the final furlong , this regularity means the fizz is starting to fade and you dearly want the guitars to twist and shout and sing . |
| 36 | This is a choice ( whether conscious or unconscious is a different matter ) , but could scarcely be called a style . |
| 37 | There is nothing that could reasonably be called a head ; merely a small light-sensitive spot ; no heart , only a number of pulsating arteries ; no fins or limbs , only a slight dilation at the hind end like the flight feathers of an arrow . |
| 38 | It proposed that the December meeting should be followed by regular meetings at various levels , including ministerial meetings in what it said " might be called a North Atlantic Co-operation Council " . |
| 39 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
| 40 | Not that Tiptoe could be called a child , by any stretch of the imagination . |
| 41 | Consequently , an item originating from somewhere within the Persian province of Khorassan will simply be called a Khorassan . |
| 42 | Copse Corner , copse er , is , is a name which we give to a small wood , a small group of trees is a copse , in India that can be called a shola , S H O L A |
| 43 | If a swirling spiral of panic could be called a blank . |
| 44 | ‘ Oh ’ , she says , ‘ I 'm not going to be called a granny . ’ |
| 45 | Even a certifiable Moon rock that makes its own way to the Earth will be called a meteorite . |
| 46 | She said aunty she said I 'm not gon na be called a grandmother ! |
| 47 | From now on , a syllable which carries a tone will be called a tonic syllable . |
| 48 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 49 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 50 | If it can be called a childhood , that is : from the nursery where he learned to be ‘ Chairman Mao 's Good Little Boy ’ onwards , his early life was racked by one political movement after another . |
| 51 | That term was automatically held to be satisfied when the effects on the interests of the individual were felt to be serious enough to warrant procedural protection , and this was so whether the context was deprivation of an office , expulsion from a trade association , the destruction of one 's property , or the loss of something which would juridically be called a privilege . |
| 52 | It is this careful attention to traditional dance rhythms which is so important to the style of both ballets , although neither can be called a character or national work ( see page 28 ) . |
| 53 | For example : Enigma Variations could be called a character ballet because it describes ‘ the persons empictured within' by Elgar himself . |
| 54 | While the Dak can hardly be called a sprinter , its relative simplicity means that a true ‘ cab rank ’ operation can be staged , with the aircraft out on the pan ready to start as soon as the alarm is raised and a back-up aircraft ready to go beyond that very quickly . |
| 55 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 56 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 57 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 58 | The house itself-'not a palace , nor a castle , nor was it hardly to be called a mansion' — is ‘ pretty ’ ( Trollope 's highest term of praise ) , unpretentious , and comfortable . |
| 59 | This one is expected to be called A Vision Of The Earth . |
| 60 | I PREFER TO BE CALLED A SCIENTIST , COLONEL DARE ! |