Example sentences of "[verb] be called [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 2 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 3 | Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution . |
| 4 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 5 | With the entire wealth of pop history on hand , the temptation is to indulge in the kind of free-for-all pick'n'mix that has been called retro-nuevo . |
| 6 | The classical phase of station-building was overtaken in Britain by the Italian villa style , which became so popular , particularly for country stations , by 1844 that the Illustrated London News could say ‘ the style has been called Italian ; it might be designated more properly an English railway style ’ . |
| 7 | These are the sample from Greece that has been called Ouranopithecus macedoniensis by some , or synonymized with Graecopithecus freybergi by others , and the single maxilla from Samburu Hills which has not yet been named . |
| 8 | HE has been called spiv , ticket tout , sport 's shadiest wheeler-dealer and sometimes a lot worse . |
| 9 | The final measure of interest rate that we will consider is called dispersion . |
| 10 | It was something that you had to swallow whole , like a stone of uncomfortable size , and the act of swallowing was called Faith . |
| 11 | ‘ Nor do I like being called Jam , or Jelly , or even Peanut Butter . ’ |
| 12 | Goldie — I do n't like being called Xanthe . |
| 13 | I do n't like being called sir , and the way he said it made my flesh grue . |
| 14 | Ian knew perfectly well that his father loathed being called prof , disliked intensely the way the boy went between the bathroom and his room with his towel flung over his shoulder so that he could flaunt his nakedness . |
| 15 | The newest method of converting hand movements to signals the computer can understand is called Trickstick . |
| 16 | Coleridge said in later life that the farmhouse to which he now retreated was called Brimstone ( no doubt a Coleridgean attempt at Broomstreet , which stood two miles west of the combe ) . |
| 17 | Known as sensori neural deafness , it may have been called nerve deafness , perceptive deafness , inner ear deafness , presbyacusis — but by any name it is a frustrating type of hearing loss , at present not helped by surgery but undoubtedly helped by using sight together with listening tactics . |
| 18 | Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America . |
| 19 | The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew . |
| 20 | The area Provenzano and McIntosh covered was called South Central . |
| 21 | ( She knows I hate being called Mammy . ) |
| 22 | And what I think is called catering . |
| 23 | Resistance to flow is called viscosity . |
| 24 | Miss Marshall 's black cat , according to Rose , had been called Midnight — like this one — Middy for short . |
| 25 | Years later he said being called Boy was a disaster because as an old man of fifty it made him feel a fool . |
| 26 | ‘ I loathe being called Mademoiselle . ’ |
| 27 | In general , variables that are brought into the picture and controlled are called test factors . |