Example sentences of "[prep] be called the " in BNC.
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| 1 | has n't any proper name like this cos these are private houses and estate are council houses but the built at top of was called the Old Plantation and the Old Plantation that 's when the first houses were built then of course when you er find the company first started which er Old Plantation is right opposite erm and when you came along past you then branched off to that 's all fields and you came down as far as and then you branched off to . |
| 2 | In America , Roth has to live with being called the new Gary Oldman . |
| 3 | So he conceived the excellent idea of producing a new series designed to catch the emerging poets at their earliest publishable point , to be called the ‘ McGill Poetry Series ’ . |
| 4 | But there it encountered another ruined project , a work to be called The Drunks of which only a tiny fragment survives , and the marriage of these two constitutes the success of Crime and Punishment . |
| 5 | Thereby it remained , in Britain 's eyes though not in its own , a part of the Empire , which was beginning about that time to be called the Commonwealth , and its citizens remained British subjects . |
| 6 | still blessed with a scent of what used to be called the counter-culture , they are also the most responsive to music generated from outside the mainstream corporate structure . |
| 7 | BOEING , the world 's biggest aircraft maker , last night gave the go-ahead for a $4billion development of a new wide-bodied 350-seater jet , to be called the 777 . |
| 8 | The placing of Uruguay and Colombia in the third pool has satisfied the South Americans , and what used to be called the Iron Curtain countries can not complain . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you ever taken part in a fire drill , ’ I ask a ticket collector at a station on the Jubilee Line ( which was supposed to be called the Fleet Line until the GLC 's Horace Cutler decided to change it in deference to the Queen at a cost of £50,000 ) . |
| 10 | Why then , it will be asked , do ‘ visible extension and figures come to be called the same name with tangible extension and figures , if they are not of the same kind with them ’ ? |
| 11 | It would have been nice to go into partnership with my son Paul , but he deals in what used to be called the avant-garde , the most difficult stuff to sell , and wants to be in New York . |
| 12 | It used to be called the ‘ self-build movement ’ , and the wearing of beards and open-toed sandals was close to compulsory . |
| 13 | In the November 1952 Minutes , Mr. Wetton is thanked for the gift of a Cup to be called the Wetton trophy . |
| 14 | This work has come to be called the ‘ little g minor ’ , linking it in power and mood to the Symphony in the same key , K.550 of 1788 . |
| 15 | Together they allowed their enthusiasm to formulate seemingly perfect reasons to be called The Smiths . |
| 16 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 17 | Stewarts and Lloyds , the chief promoters of Corby 's growth , imported contingents of Scottish workers , and young men looking for secure jobs came with their wives on the train from Glasgow that came to be called the ‘ honeymoon express ’ . |
| 18 | By about 1000 BC much smaller cattle began to appear and they came to be called the Celtic oxen , their different skull shape giving rise to the term Bos brachyceros or Bos longifrons , though they were not in fact of a separate species but members of the Bos taurus species like other longhorns and shorthorns in temperate regions . |
| 19 | His plan was to reorganize the Southern League with other clubs into two divisions of eighteen to twenty clubs each , to be called the Football Alliance , with promotion and relegation between the Second Division of the League and the First of the Alliance as well as within the two organizations . |
| 20 | At a meeting in the Rummer Tavern ( which still exists in rebuilt form a few doors from Cottle 's former bookshop ) he was persuaded by ‘ sundry Philanthropists ’ and opponents of the war to begin publication of a periodical to be called the Watchman . |
| 21 | These have come to be called the ‘ book-hand ’ and the related groups of ‘ charter ’ , ‘ chancery ’ and ‘ court ’ hands . |
| 22 | It was to be called the Cloister Group , and meet in the Cloisters . |
| 23 | By the middle of the 18th century , if not earlier , the parish was in the forefront in breeding new dairy cattle , later to be called the Ayrshire breed , and the increased milk production obtained enabled every small farmer to produce much more butter and cheese . |
| 24 | Vitamin A used to be called the anti-infective vitamin because a deficiency reduces the resistance of certain parts of the body to infection . |
| 25 | More importantly the larger molecules manufactured inside the cell were later to be called the dna . |
| 26 | The Sun used to be called the Daily Herald . |
| 27 | Elton does n't deserve to be called the worst , he 's very stylish and I dress him for the country . |
| 28 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 29 | In my spare time and during vacations , between 1976 and 1978 , I set up what later came to be called the Standing Conference of Asian Youth Organizations . |
| 30 | I do n't want to be called the 501 guy by any means , but it was fun . |