Example sentences of "[adv] be called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of a worship service in which no mention was made of Christ , the bible was not read , and no reference made to God 's dealings with the people of Israel or of the early church , we might well say that it was theistic ( if mention was made of God ) , but it could not rightly be called Christian . |
| 2 | We have already said , that of a liturgy in which no mention was made of Christ , we might hold that it was meaningful , even theistic , but that it could not rightly be called Christian . |
| 3 | ‘ Though it be not sense , as having nothing to do with external objects , yet it is very like it , and might properly enough be called internal sense ’ . |
| 4 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 5 | Their class origins , too , were rapidly fictionalised , but the notion of a sudden demotic invasion of polite letters can only be called extravagant . |
| 6 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 7 | Scotch Whisky … the world 's leading natural drink … can only be called Scotch if it is distilled and matured in Scotland … a natural drink … distilled in a land of great natural beauty … it takes nothing from nature which nature will not readily replace . |
| 8 | The beauty and achievements of Bohemian art can perhaps be called Czech only with an effort , but there is no doubt of the attachment of a people to the heritage that they can rightly claim . |
| 9 | Hector Odhar , they 're calling you now , I 'm told , for that you can scarcely be called swift , nor my father brown , with his wisps of hair like dandruff ! |
| 10 | They had initiated an experimental effort to pioneer a form of what may best be called developmental social care . |
| 11 | Many actions of governments and societies have effects that may broadly be called demographic : they affect the lengths of people 's lives , and they affect the future size of the world 's population . |
| 12 | The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ The Editor ’ , he blandly explained , ‘ can not be called dishonest for making his author speak what he believes , with more knowledge , the author would have said . ’ |
| 14 | The unbleached disposable diapers which have recently become available should not be called ozone-friendly as bleached nappies do not damage the ozone layer either . |
| 15 | There we claimed that if nothing in your experience could count as evidence that you were not a brain in a vat , your belief that you are not a brain in a vat can not be called justified . |
| 16 | Floor , garage floor , and step paints are hard wearing and not slippery , although they can not be called non-slip . |
| 17 | The advantages that they are getting are admirable and important but reforms that only give these advantages to a select minority can not be called fair . |
| 18 | Can the government that has been assembled around Mr Beregovoy , the man who has moved from Leftist doctrines to a belief in a mixed economy and who keeps a tight rein on public spending , still be called socialist ? |
| 19 | An alternative to both monism and dualism which is in some ways more enlightening than either is the approach which may fittingly be called stylistic PLURALISM . |
| 20 | She found herself praying , the only thing she did consistently as a physician that could ever be called unprofessional . |
| 21 | Carl , by no stretch of the imagination , could ever be called good-looking . |
| 22 | The main weakness of the programme was that schooling could hardly be called accessible when those who were supposed to benefit from it had to pay for tuition . |
| 23 | Although Wordsworth 's own children , together with Basil Montagu and Hartley Coleridge , can hardly be called unqualified successes in their later life , this does not undermine Wordsworth 's ideas , which anticipate the freedom of modern infant teaching . |
| 24 | From remarkably early in his life , Nietzsche had a strong awareness , visionary rather than analytical , of the problematic nature of modern culture , although initially his perspective could hardly be called original . |
| 25 | Mimed dance or danced mime can also be called descriptive or narrative dance . |
| 26 | That pattern can also be called liberal , or bourgeois , civilization and it was most developed in the industrialized countries , least in the agrarian east and south . |
| 27 | Nathaniel Hawthorne spoke of the ‘ phantasmagorical antics ’ he had played in describing the socialist community which appears in The Blithedale Romance : the antics played in the commune conceived by Ahmed could also be called phantasmagorical . |
| 28 | And the disturbances could not strictly be called racial : the most prominent feature was that of violent clashes between young people and the police . |
| 29 | It is evident from the nineteenth century cases on the right to a hearing that the principle was invoked in a number of areas which could properly be called administrative . |
| 30 | A typical example — if any can properly be called typical when patterns of voting differ so widely — is provided by the 1987 election in Longford-Westmeath . |