Example sentences of "[vb mod] be called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This form of political rhetoric Reeves ( 1983 ) has dubbed ‘ discursive deracialization ’ ( what more appropriately should be called discursive deracialization ) . |
| 2 | Obair has also had reservations about private sector developments in West Belfast — or perhaps they should be called public sector developments with a private face . |
| 3 | Scott Cunningham has developed the practice of magical aromatherapy , where he uses these natural aromas for effects such as stimulation of the mind , protection , purification and psychic awareness , thereby attaining what might be called magical states of consciousness . |
| 4 | This will be the case quite regularly so that it is not in the least surprising if in many instances general expectations have crystallized into rigid habits ( which might be called syntactic " rules " ) governing the possibilities open to an adjective as a type item , irrespective of the facts of any particular token occasion . |
| 5 | An alternative to the expulsion procedure exists in what might be called compulsory retirement ( Clause 18.03 ) . |
| 6 | The problem is to distinguish this type of rejection of psychoanalytic propositions — the result of the feelings aroused in people by uncomfortable material — from what might be called genuine objections of a kind which are reasoned and scientific . |
| 7 | Joan 's use of Creole is so limited that it might be called tokenistic . |
| 8 | The force within can also be manipulated through … Dieting , in which you are discouraged from eating meat because it provokes unhelpful vibrations and produces what might be called static interference in meditation . |
| 9 | At the same time the Island women showed greater signs of what might be called normal anxiety . |
| 10 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 11 | Their view of the seriousness of Iraq 's action , and the reaction it demanded , was different enough from Mr Bush 's to scupper talk of global partnerships and replace it by what might be called contingent leadership . |
| 12 | Implicit agreements or what might be called self-imposed regulation ( as in the Building Society sector and the Stock Exchange in the past ) have tended to be eroded by competition or the need to compete . |
| 13 | So tomorrow would have to do , and the obvious move now was to see Mrs McDougall myself and get what might be called hard evidence from her . |
| 14 | It should be a task of social representation theory to investigate those strands of contemporary culture which , properly speaking , might be called objectified social representations , as well as those other elements , which are not objectified representations . |
| 15 | It might be thought , for example , that the arbitrator is typical of adjudicative authorities , and that what might be called legislative authorities differ from them in precisely these respects . |
| 16 | Let us deal first , with what might be called methodological problems . |
| 17 | Although nowadays a certain amount of mechanical testing is done for what might be called academic reasons , by far the most of it is done for strictly practical ends and in fact a thorough knowledge of the actual strength of its materials is , like drains and income tax , one of the things which no advanced civilization can do without . |
| 18 | And this distinction between an hour as sixty minutes and an hour as a section of complex human experience , is I suppose the distinction one would make between clock time and what might be called existential time , time as it 's humanly experienced . |
| 19 | The ones I have so far mentioned might be called mimetic , that is , the distinctions king/servant , sane man/madman , are distinctions that exist in real life , outside the theatre , and are rendered within a Shakespeare play by the distinction between verse and prose . |
| 20 | The mood is one of what might be called creative compliance rather than avoidance as such . |
| 21 | Justification could be given for this assertion by describing Dickens 's view of the London working classes , then describing the view of one or more modern historians , then showing that the two views are significantly different to the extent that Dickens 's could be called incorrect . |
| 22 | erm I wo n't go through too many of them , erm but Blue Boar Inn , for instance , had 21 extra people , had some of the King 's servants , some of the prince 's servants , they had two Scottish peers , and their servants , £ 21 extra people , in a big inn , there were 14 rooms , I think , that were , could be called living rooms , but never-the-less , I think it must have been pretty crowded . |
| 23 | All of these could be called private fears — they arise out of your own life pattern and needs . |
| 24 | Noticeable in the last decade or two in fiction , it is a reaction that could be called political . |
| 25 | Crompton and Jones concluded that clerical workers were a white-collar proletariat , and that female clerical workers in particular have little chance of promotion to what could be called middle-class or service-class jobs . |
| 26 | Her looks too : she had hair that could be called golden . |
| 27 | None the less , research has shown that a surprisingly large proportion of the population has not only had an experience that could be called religious , but that , for many , this experience consequently affected their lives in some quite important way . |
| 28 | This view could be called cynical , but my experience leads me to believe that in most situations we are preoccupied with ourselves and our own agendas . |
| 29 | Only the large , ground-living cassowaries from the Australasian rain forests possess anything that could be called avian armour , and even there it is confined solely to the head region . |
| 30 | The first type could be called communal and the second collective ( Lee , 1979 ) . |