Example sentences of "[pron] be called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm called full time Youth Evangelist and work for the Pembury Free Church . |
| 2 | Some are connected with writings about literature , philosophy and politics which are called post-modern or post-structural . |
| 3 | However , the heart 's own oxygen supply is not taken from the blood which is continually being pumped through it to service the rest of the body , but from separate little arteries which are called coronary arteries . |
| 4 | We have now moved on from looking at syllables to looking at words , and we will consider certain well-known English words that can be pronounced in two different ways , which are called strong forms and weak forms . |
| 5 | DNA has effects upon bodies , upon eye colour , hair crinkliness , strength of aggressive behaviour and thousands of other attributes , all of which are called phenotypic effects . |
| 6 | [ The Jewish law did not allow Jews to eat the flesh of some animals , such as the pig , which were called unclean . ] |
| 7 | ‘ I believe by forming a better definition of criminal record information , and with a better definition of criminal intelligence , we should be able to identify the middle grade which is called criminal information , ’ he said . |
| 8 | There 's also this thing which is called agricultural fundamentalism right and the most developing c , most developed countries , most of the population live in urban areas and the they see erm er rural areas as being sort of the backbone of society , sort of the salt of the earth type of element in society that although they do n't participate in themselves would like to maintain right and so even consumers may well be would not want see erm agriculture obliterated from er , from their country right because they like the products that erm that agriculture produces and they think that you can of erm destroying of the agricultural industry would , would pose an unacceptable burden on the fabric of rural society and as a result are quite happy to see protectionism er fo , for that industry . |
| 9 | … the lands belonging to Pagham , firstly from the West of Withering , by that harbour to the place which is called Bonar Stream , and thus it leads to the long village . |
| 10 | O K , I want to before we , we go any further , to let us have a look at something that is on this agenda which is called commercial awareness . |
| 11 | And there was one place which was called creepy . |
| 12 | We are one of about three hundred Amnesty groups in the country , probably about this size , perhaps , well were , were , I mean this , this group is probably about an average for the , you know , the groups in the country , some are smaller , some are much larger , but er , usually it 's about a dozen or so people meeting once a month or , or that often in a room , erm , but apart from groups there are a l there are a great many more people who are called individual members of Amnesty about eighty thousand I think now who are , who just joined by writing to headquarters and many of those have no contact with the groups at all , we 've had list of the people in this area and they run into hundred and fifty , two hundred people who live in this area who er , who belong , who , who belong to Amnesty but do n't actually come to a group except for a small number of us . |
| 13 | Not by any stretch of the imagination could she be called beautiful and it was doubtful if she ever had been , but she was undeniably attractive . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's called Cynthia , ’ said my mother as one who says , ‘ She 's called cat-sick . ’ |
| 15 | Its tangent space is called pseudo-Euclidean and the space itself is called pseudo-Riemannian . |
| 16 | And she was called Tiny . |
| 17 | She was called Lucky Lady and had originally been bought by grandfather Alec , some forty years ago . |
| 18 | This equation and the preceding one are called metric equations . |
| 19 | In fact we could be called Grattan Couriers but we call it , we 're called Direct Line . |
| 20 | this one is called Ancient Greek . |
| 21 | The first one is called geometrical isomerism in some books not that you ever read , will read any chemistry books but just in case you stumble over one day and fall flat on your face and there happens to be a chemistry text book open and you ha , just happen to read one or two of the words as you go unconscious and in Matthew 's case if you wake up ! |
| 22 | One was called Useful Tips on Flying and the other Advanced Physical Dynamics and Introverted Equations for the 3-D Aeronautical Practice : Parts One and Two . |
| 23 | One was called Geoffroy à la Grande Dent and one was called Horrible . |
| 24 | They have variable compositions and may consist of a single phase in which case they are called homogeneous . |
| 25 | The reported after-tax earnings in the case where no dividends are distributed are called nil earnings , while in the case where dividends are distributed they are called net earnings . |
| 26 | Where formed by divergent plate movement they are described as rifted margins , but where the motion between two adjacent continental blocks has been transform they are called sheared margins ( but note that the term rifted margin is often applied rather loosely to passive margins of any type ) . |
| 27 | These are the truly intractable pains and they are called intractable because they respond to no known form of therapy . |
| 28 | Because Landsat MSS and TM images are numerical in nature they are called digital images . |
| 29 | Danni and Kylie swear by them , they are the latest in hair accessories , they are called Flexi Combs and they are available from Boots at a mere 95p ! |
| 30 | 1 When two or more fractions are the same , they are called equivalent . |