Example sentences of "[that] [modal v] be called " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only element that may be called modern , or contemporary , is the training , the direction , the motive . |
| 2 | Almost all the words which have both a strong and weak form belong to a category that may be called function words — words that do not have a dictionary meaning in the way that we normally expect nouns , verbs , adjectives and adverbs to have . |
| 3 | Apart from the bad , there is another category that might be called the gloriously bad or the awfully bad : one thinks of all those collections of groan-producing puns and nonsensical jokes and riddles . |
| 4 | OF ALL the fads spurred by the onset of the single European market , none has proved as damning as the one that might be called ‘ Euronomia ’ : an uncontrollable compulsion to include ‘ Euro ’ in company names . |
| 5 | Rather , my concern is to identify the salient characteristics of a place that might be called upon , singly or together , in any analyses which seek — like those in chapters 4 and 5 — to understand the nature of spatial variability and spatial change . |
| 6 | Think of two or three things that might be called out and invent some amusing replies . |
| 7 | The book , then , was once again in progress , under a new title , " and evidently progressing in a spirit that might be called " philosophical " , and specifically " metaphysical " or " aesthetic " , and perhaps even " poetic " ; but not philological . |
| 8 | I do n't know what they were doing and I guess that could be called an orgy . |
| 9 | We need to know what a teacher can do in a crisis that could be called teaching . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( There are some moments in Dustin 's films that could be called Keatonesque — the blankness of his face at the beginning of The Graduate , some of the comedy in Little Big Man , and the office party scene in Kramer vs Kramer — without his face ever resembling Keaton 's handsome ‘ stone-face ’ features . ) |
| 12 | Surrey was the first landscape she had experienced that could be called feminine . |
| 13 | So Clemente and his FA were taken aback when England returned from the Swedish disaster and began pushing for an away fixture at anywhere in Spain that could be called ‘ cool ’ . |
| 14 | I say nuclear catastrophe partly because any exchange of nuclear arsenals will bear no resemblance to anything that could be called war . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Noticeable in the last decade or two in fiction , it is a reaction that could be called political . |
| 17 | Her looks too : she had hair that could be called golden . |
| 18 | It would n't have any point that could be called a beginning or end , any more than the surface of the earth has a beginning or end . |
| 19 | THERE IS a pernicious Hollywood humour that could be called the ‘ cute ’ school , a breeding ground for movies filled with jokes that scream ‘ Gosh , well that is funny ’ , that fall over themselves to please . |
| 20 | It was virtually desert country , the irrigation channels blocked with debris , nothing that could be called a tree to be seen anywhere . |
| 21 | THERE IS a pernicious Hollywood humour that could be called the ‘ cute ’ school , a breeding ground for movies filled with jokes that scream ‘ Gosh , well that is funny ’ , that fall over themselves to please . |
| 22 | This is certainly a difficult poem for any translator to attempt — but then there is no Horatian lyric that could be called " easy " ; there are besetting problems , concerning metre and form , concerning word order , concerning a lexicon in which patent meanings are shadowed by possibilities of other meanings , concerning the importance of allusion , and above all the Horatian craft that mingles these elements interdependently , in patterns that persist or shift from strophe to strophe . |
| 23 | They are and I I think the whole trouble with Jenny was that not having , I mean , I was alright as a sort of mum subject I was n't the same as a bona fide mum that could be called upon in all weathers , at all times , to do everything |
| 24 | Forasmuch as Mr. William Lambarde hath deserved universally well of his Commonwealth and country , and likewise of the fellowship and society of this house , and is likely hereafter to win greater credit to himself and the society of this house , it is therefore agreed , that he shall have room to sit amongst the Society of the Fellowship of the Bench , as other assistants do , without paying for the same : Provided always that this be no precedent to any other that shall be called to the like place hereafter , but they shall pay for the said room such sums of money as shall be assessed by the Bench . " |
| 25 | From the evidence here , she was a loose cannon of the left , espousing causes in an antagonistic manner that would be called ultra-leftism , were any principles discernible behind her actions . |
| 26 | If the Proof was heard in Kirkwall she said it would be prejudicial to certain adult witnesses that would be called . |
| 27 | It has been mentioned several times that tonic syllables have a high degree of prominence ; prominence is , of course , a property of stressed syllables , and a tonic syllable not only carries a tone ( which is something related to intonation ) but also a type of stress that will be called tonic stress . |
| 28 | There are , unfortunately , few pieces of software that can be called useless . |
| 29 | There are products available that will remove the most stubborn of paint sprays and it 's likely that the local Public Works Depot will have a graffiti removal squad that can be called into action to remove any offensive spray paint . |
| 30 | There are hundreds of species of fish that can be called ‘ brackish ’ because they live where two water worlds meet — the estuaries . |