Example sentences of "be [adv] called [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 2 | Smock or frock mills are so called because their shape is said to resemble a man dressed in a smock . |
| 3 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 4 | The warehouses known as the ‘ Little Germany ’ are so called because of their flamboyant architectural style . |
| 5 | French Tomatoes are so called because in the traditional recipe French cream cheese is used in place of the low fat cottage cheese . |
| 6 | Ransom strips are so called because they change hands at high values , often up to one third of the total site value . |
| 7 | Those papers known commercially as pastel papers are so called because they are coloured and often because they have a machine-made laid effect . |
| 8 | The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds . |
| 9 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 10 | The clearing banks are so called because they operate a central clearing house in London . |
| 11 | The sleeve notes ( if they 're still called that in the compact disc age ) give some useful information about the personnel used during the recording sessions . |
| 12 | Thrips or thunder flies as they are sometimes called because of their tendency to fly in clouds when thunder threatens — are minute midge-like flies that like to get into buds just as the bud scales ( sepals ) are opening and lay their eggs there . |
| 13 | Representatives were summoned to assent to taxes on a number of occasions , as in the 1290s , but they were also called when no tax was being demanded — in 1300 , 1302 , 1305 and 1307 , for example . |
| 14 | The police were then called and McDonnell was arrested . |
| 15 | Most stars are members of double systems , where two stars orbit each other , and systems of three , four , five and even six stars are not uncommon ; for example , the star nearest to ours , Proxima Centauri , is the third member of a system whose other two components , orbiting closely together , are jointly called & alpha Centauri . |
| 16 | Cellular radio is so called because it divides the country into small areas served by a radio base , and then divides each of these areas into ‘ cells ’ . |
| 17 | LOST-WAX casting is so called because the object to be cast is first modelled in wax ( over a clay core if the casting is to be hollow ) . |
| 18 | The Nutcracker suite in this charming 17th-century inn is so called because the low-ceilinged doorway has an exposed beam which has caught out the unwary and cracked a few heads in its time . |
| 19 | This pitch is so called because the 2nd Man , when rattling the bag of acid drops , fervently murmures ‘ Amen ’ to any remarks let fall by the leader while struggling with this steep wall of 8 cubits in stature ! ’ |
| 20 | Hill climbing is so called because it is like what one would do to find the top of a hill in a Scottish mist : Keep going up . |
| 21 | Stein 's vis-á-vis instrument now in Verona is so called because the piano and harpsichord it combines face each other . |
| 22 | This is so called because it is available to the general public or to civilians rather than to the authorities . |
| 23 | The wart-biter is so called because when first described by the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus , it was used by his native peasants to bite off their warts . |
| 24 | It 's so called because the electrical vibratory massager has a choice of five heads according to the intensity of the massage and which part of the body is to be treated . |
| 25 | It 's so called because in the past it was burnt and the smoke used to rid dwellings of fleas . |
| 26 | Yet , for love , it is never called or named sacrifice . |
| 27 | Dvorak 's ‘ American ’ was so called because he composed it in the United States in 1893 , the year when his ‘ New World ’ symphony was first performed , both great works deriving from the same inspiration . |
| 28 | ‘ I was only called that because all I had when I came here was my duffle coat . ’ |
| 29 | She never married ; but , by the time of her retirement from work , she was a great-aunt — although she was never called that — and she liked being one . |
| 30 | Time was never called and the tide was soon to discover it was on a hiding to nothing . |