Example sentences of "it is [adv] called " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I HAVE received vague but disquieting information about the inaccessibility of the Willoughbys ’ old home , ’ wrote William Dutt in 1914 , who was keen to see Parham Old Hall ( or the Moat Hall as it is sometimes called ) , before nightfall . |
| 32 | It is sometimes called the Danish Gorgonzola , although the veining is greenish in colour and the paste is very yellow . |
| 33 | Thus the second major influence on behaviour is the reward , or payoff , as it is sometimes called , for acting in a certain way . |
| 34 | In environmental health the most important dimension of an odour is its acceptability , or ‘ hedonic tone ’ as it is sometimes called . |
| 35 | Using a voltage to control the number of mobile electrons in this layer , or ‘ induced surface channel ’ as it is sometimes called , is the basis of the device 's operation . |
| 36 | According to the Code du Vin ( a publication codifying the regulations of the INAO ) , one marc of 4,000 kilograms will yield 2,266 litres of juice , or must , as it is sometimes called . |
| 37 | A popular drink among healthy Italian restaurant-goers , it is sometimes called a ‘ canary ’ . |
| 38 | It is sometimes called ‘ evaluative research , . |
| 39 | It is sometimes called the Total Period Fertility Rate ( TPFR ) or Total Fertility Ratio or Index , as it is not strictly a ‘ rate ’ . |
| 40 | So it is sometimes called a " history of salvation " . |
| 41 | Although it is sometimes called the " magic e " , the e itself does n't change anything : it marks the fact that the word should be pronounced differently . |
| 42 | In our inquiry into causation so far , we have not attended specifically to this fact of difference or asymmetry between causal items and their effects-the fact of causal priority as it is sometimes called . |
| 43 | This phenomenon is distinct from onomatopoeia — it is sometimes called sound symbolism : there is no question of auditory resemblance . |
| 44 | James inaugurated the modern or as it is sometimes called , the ‘ modernist ’ novel in England , a kind of fiction which , in pursuit of a more faithful representation of reality , attenuated or eliminated altogether the authorial narrator . |
| 45 | Care management , or case management as it is sometimes called , is a concept which developed in the United States in the mid-1970s and is growing rapidly in popularity in Britain . |
| 46 | With the very poor Artificial Horizon presentation in average aircraft , the pitch attitude will be expressed in terms of the Horizon Bar thickness , or width as it is sometimes called , each attitude being the relationship of the top of the aircraft symbols wings on top of the Horizon Bar . |
| 47 | ( or Psamma arenaria as it is sometimes called , the initial letter being silent . |
| 48 | It is sometimes called the Coriolis force , but this is very misleading . |
| 49 | Black lead , or wad as it is sometimes called , is found in a number of places in the Lake District and has been mined for centuries at Seathwaite in Borrowdale . |
| 50 | " Methodological uniformitarianism " , as it is sometimes called , makes the simple assumption ( as in all other sciences ) of the invariance of natural laws . |
| 51 | Credit transfer , or ‘ exemption ’ as it is sometimes called , has long been recognised as part of SCOTVEC 's provision . |
| 52 | If the first derivative of the property-temperature curve is measured , a change in the vicinity of T g is found ; for this reason it is sometimes called a second-order transition . |
| 53 | For this reason it is sometimes called the delocalisation enthalpy , resonance energy or stabilisation energy . |
| 54 | We then move into a short period of dramatic play ( or " busy time " as it is sometimes called ) in which each of the groups go about their business , which they greatly enjoy — until frustrations begin to creep in . |
| 55 | Yet , for love , it is never called or named sacrifice . |
| 56 | It is appropriately called ‘ Camelliifolia ’ and you can be forgiven for taking young plants as camellias . |
| 57 | It is therefore called ‘ warning coloration ’ . |
| 58 | Most people think dementia ( or senility as it is wrongly called ) is inevitable . |
| 59 | It is wrongly called the ‘ late hit ’ . |
| 60 | Or it is merely called ‘ public policy ’ . |