Example sentences of "[pron] be called [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was lucky , because instead of being on house assessment I was called and told I was going to be on the works party next day , only my second day at Styal . |
| 2 | Les Hiboux was in the Périgord Noir , which was called that , apparently , because of all the trees , particularly oaks , in the area . |
| 3 | Peter Clark has shown that at least half the Gloucester men and women who were called as witnesses in church courts during the early seventeenth century were first generation immigrants . |
| 4 | Professor Akira Fujiwara , an acknowledged expert on the Rape of Nanking who was called as one of the witnesses in the case , said that ‘ in spite of the government 's promise to correct bias in history textbooks , the screening system has actually got worse since the 1982 diplomatic protests . |
| 5 | That lives on , and we are called and challenged to share it , to hear the words once spoken by the lake-side , ‘ Come , follow me . ’ |
| 6 | Unless they are called as witnesses , victims are often not told when a case is coming to court . |
| 7 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
| 8 | one of them thingies , one of them jacks , and then you 've got one of them , I do n't even , I do n't know what they 're called but I 've seen it before |
| 9 | Starters were bowls of a rich stock soup with julienne of vegetables ( if that 's what they 're called when they 're chopped into sticks ) and the earthenware bowls had puff pastry hats on which kept the soup scalding hot . |
| 10 | No there 's they were , they were called but they were agents for their own ships . |
| 11 | That 's what they were called when they first appeared on the underwear scene in the early 1900s . |
| 12 | I do n't know what it 's called but there 's this bit where you go down on the floor like an anteater . |
| 13 | There is a rubber plant and another one — he does n't know what it 's called but it 's his favourite . |
| 14 | I know my hygiene rules at work , I 've got my du n no what it 's called but it 's a health and hygiene thingey certificate . |
| 15 | I know what it 's called but I would like it |
| 16 | ‘ That 's not what it 's called and the message has nothing to do with — that . ’ |
| 17 | Now in the old we had er quite a reasonable scheme on this actual erm but you see , about ten years ago I think it was , there was another estate built on to , it 's called and although at that time we made the strongest possible representation for improvements and traffic calming in which is the only road that goes in and nothing was done . |
| 18 | I Lone Wolf it 's called and it 's all about |
| 19 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 20 | and then I 've put project what it 's called and then I 've put what kind of project it is what type |
| 21 | No , Inner Space it 's called and it 's like a , a |
| 22 | ding dong dong or whatever it 's called and that is . |
| 23 | I think it 's called or something . |
| 24 | Froglet doggie , it 's called or something . |
| 25 | We shall be given all manner of reasons why there should not be a top salary review , or whatever it is called since the former Prime Minister tore up the negotiating arrangements for the civil service . |
| 26 | Please let us know about EVERY class you teach however specialised and whatever it is called unless it is directly resulting from another qualification e.g. if you teach a yoga type class and do not have a yoga qualification , this statistically should be a Medau Breathing and Relaxation class . |
| 27 | " Opticals " like titling mixes and dissolves are then put in hand and added to the " double head " as it is called when vision and sound are still on separate film . |
| 28 | It was called that when St Aidan established a monastery there . |
| 29 | I always bring something back from there — today it was iris together with something white and richly scented ; I asked the girl twice what it was called but could n't catch what she said — I arrange the flowers in the vase I bought soon after I arrived . |
| 30 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |