Example sentences of "[be] called [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A product could be called a part , product or finished product depending on the department . |
| 2 | What she had now with Adam could n't even be called a relationship , she acknowledged ruefully . |
| 3 | The Earl of Bothwell , nephew of the earl who had done James 's mother so much harm , was what today would be called a tearaway : he revelled in leading Border raids , once broke into the Edinburgh Tolbooth to free one of his men from custody , and was widely believed to hold the office of chief warlock to various covens of witches . |
| 4 | None of the figures on any of the regulatory bodies was exactly a spring chicken , and none could be called a radical . |
| 5 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 6 | MYSELF and Marco Polo is a working model of a novel , a clever toy , a verbal tournament , a facetious blueprint for a possible future seriousness : it could only be called a success if its author 's aim was merely to intrigue , and I do not feel that Paul Griffiths can be that crude . |
| 7 | There was nothing conscious or deliberate about my decision , if indeed it can be called a decision at all . |
| 8 | In 1922 the capital of the guberniia could hardly be called a bastion of the proletariat . |
| 9 | If you were a girl Wolf Cub you would be called a Louvette . |
| 10 | He was smiling , if that could be called a smile that drew his long mouth out of line , plucking the left corner obliquely upwards . |
| 11 | LADY in black Jackie Miller could hardly be called a mo-pedestrian either . |
| 12 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
| 13 | After much consideration , I have concluded that no activity can be called a sport when any of the following apply … |
| 14 | Now to an event that could hardly be called a sport , even though it did produce a new British champion . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the rewritten version conforms so closely to the original , with just isolated words changed , that it can not reasonably be called a paraphrase . |
| 16 | Prayer rugs , for example , are never referred to as carpets , and anything employing a hunting design would ten to be called a hunting carpet rather than a hunting rug . |
| 17 | They also review the history of the main hypotheses of atherogenesis : response to injury , lipid infiltration , monoclonal smooth muscle proliferation , thrombogenic ‘ encrustation ’ , and autoimmunity , but they weave these together into what can fairly be called a consensus view . |
| 18 | An attempted return led David to disastrous defeat at Neville 's Cross , after which he was a prisoner in English hands for eleven years until bought back for what could truly be called a king 's ransom . |
| 19 | Enoch Powell , who needed nobody to tell him that he could n't win ( he knew that perfectly well ) , was not the object of anything that could properly be called a campaign : he was a loner with just a few devoted friends behind him . |
| 20 | They would remain subject to general company law and there would still be a third member of the board , the club secretary , who could in no way be called a cat 's paw . |
| 21 | It was virtually desert country , the irrigation channels blocked with debris , nothing that could be called a tree to be seen anywhere . |
| 22 | The Battle of the Marne — if it can be called a battle — began at about 14.30 on the afternoon of 5 September , when the advance guard of Maunoury 's Sixth Army encountered a corps on Kluck 's flank , north of Meaux . |
| 23 | If Pollard 's architecture is so disposable and flippant that it is odd to call him a ‘ patron ’ , Palumbo 's patronage is so single-minded that he can hardly be called a developer . |
| 24 | From the beginning of his career Ashton frequently used the old stereotypes but created unique dances which can be called a translation of favourite comic play into the language of ballet . |
| 25 | The elongated , slightly oval hummock could hardly be called a grave , more a burial mound . |
| 26 | The words ‘ He shall be called a Nazarene ’ are not an authentic verse . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | And since the master-manufacturer also financed the provision of land , buildings , machinery and equipment he was — or had been — also what would come to be called a capitalist . |
| 29 | They are low , so low that they can hardly be called a threshold — more a ramp , with a sign over it begging ‘ Please , please walk up ’ . |
| 30 | Even here in the dusty , bounding Toyota , this old man has a distinctiveness , the clubbable , dependable qualities of what used to be called a gentleman . |