Example sentences of "[be] call [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a look in the mirror , and see who you 're calling stupid . |
| 2 | I do n't think though we should give the impression that most of the behaviour we 're calling sexual harassment takes the form of behaviour that |
| 3 | And those forget me nots that 're called blue ball and are supposed to have brilliant blue flowers are coming out with tiny pinky purple flowers . |
| 4 | In fact we could be called Grattan Couriers but we call it , we 're called Direct Line . |
| 5 | They 're called anti-idiotypic monoclonal antibodies and the work is being continued at Stanford University in California . |
| 6 | " There 's a little plantation of Norway spruce planted for your great-aunt and there are two fields , I think they 're called Long-fallow and the Barn field , which I wanted your aunt to plant . |
| 7 | Firstly , because self-employed pensions have long also been called personal pensions — or , to use the former technical jargon , Section 226 policies . |
| 8 | Increased trade with third countries due to this effect and also the induced trade following from the increase in growth stimulated by the creating of the CU have been called external trade creation . |
| 9 | Southend pumps its sewage into the sea after primary treatment ; the beach at Westcliff has just been called unsuitable for swimming by the Heinz Good Beach Guide . |
| 10 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 11 | " It 'll be good for a giggle , as Charlie says , " she concluded , with a look which on a lesser woman could have been called coy . |
| 12 | Ah , right , I do n't , I think it 's now been called regional Christmas Day |
| 13 | ( 1.3 ) The possible argument consists in the premiss ( 1 ) that decisions and the like are taken to be effects but also to be no more than events which follow on conditions which are required for them , the further premiss ( 2 ) that it is to be presumed that we have a single conception of effects rather than several , and the conclusion ( 3 ) that all effects , including what have been called standard effects , are merely events preceded by conditions required for them . |
| 14 | After the disasters of the past few months , a result which would previously have been called disappointing will now be hailed as a triumph . |
| 15 | Directors have sometimes been called trustees , or commercial trustees , sometimes they have been called managing partners ; it does not matter much what you call them as long as you understand what their true position is , which is really that they are commercial men managing a trading concern for the benefit of themselves and all the other shareholders … they are bound to use fair and reasonable diligence in the management of the company 's affairs and to act honestly . |
| 16 | All that 's happened is that , in switching from rock to soul , agit-pop has shifted emphasis from denunciation to affirmation , or what has been called offensive optimism . |
| 17 | It should exclude ‘ not only those items which have traditionally been called extraordinary , but also those called exceptional ’ . |
| 18 | This type of evaluation has been called illuminative evaluation by Parlett and Hamilton , and responsive evaluation by Stake . |
| 19 | Because I 'd always been called skinny . |
| 20 | Many RP speakers use in a similar way to link words ending with a vowel even when there is no ‘ justification ’ from the spelling , as in : ‘ Formula A ’ ‘ Australia all out ’ ‘ media event ’ This has been called intrusive ; some English speakers and teachers still regard this as incorrect or sub-standard pronunciation , but it is undoubtedly widespread . |
| 21 | This causes him to doubt himself , that is his worthiness in loving Estella as he now thinks because he has been called common and coarse . |
| 22 | They have been called magic bullets because of their use in the treatment of cancer . |
| 23 | This has been called acquired equivalence of cues , or secondary generalization . |
| 24 | In a bid to keep the action secret , the case has been called Anonymous I v Anonymous II . |
| 25 | The United States sent $65m ( £40m ) of military aid to Colombia , but this has been called inappropriate and is alleged to be more suitable for fighting Colombia 's left-wing guerrillas than the cocaine mafia . |
| 26 | Since then many people , ranging from Mrs Thatcher to Arthur Scargill , have been called fascist . |
| 27 | They were built in what has sometimes been called classical bankers ' style , more akin to London 's Waterloo or Boston South than the Beaux-Arts style . |
| 28 | This mode of explanation has been called methodological individualism , for it seeks to disaggregate all larger institutional and historical entities into the practices and relations of the individuals or groups who compose or inhabit them . |
| 29 | It may not have been called formal consultation process . |
| 30 | Cromwell 's foreign policy has been called out-of-date , because he based it on the bellicose anti-Catholic and anti-Spanish feeling of the reign of Elizabeth . |