Example sentences of "have been called [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution .
2 Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution .
3 Such remedies in English law are generically different from remedies in contract or in tort , and are now recognised to fall within a third category of the common law which has been called quasi-contract or restitution .
4 Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since .
5 With the entire wealth of pop history on hand , the temptation is to indulge in the kind of free-for-all pick'n'mix that has been called retro-nuevo .
6 The classical phase of station-building was overtaken in Britain by the Italian villa style , which became so popular , particularly for country stations , by 1844 that the Illustrated London News could say ‘ the style has been called Italian ; it might be designated more properly an English railway style ’ .
7 These are the sample from Greece that has been called Ouranopithecus macedoniensis by some , or synonymized with Graecopithecus freybergi by others , and the single maxilla from Samburu Hills which has not yet been named .
8 HE has been called spiv , ticket tout , sport 's shadiest wheeler-dealer and sometimes a lot worse .
9 Known as sensori neural deafness , it may have been called nerve deafness , perceptive deafness , inner ear deafness , presbyacusis — but by any name it is a frustrating type of hearing loss , at present not helped by surgery but undoubtedly helped by using sight together with listening tactics .
10 Tocqueville 's Democracy in America is , as has been noted , essentially a study of American society , and one commentator has even suggested that it might better have been called Equality in America .
11 The waiter invited them to choose between coq au vin and navarin of lamb , either of which , in other circumstances , would have been called stew .
12 Miss Marshall 's black cat , according to Rose , had been called Midnight — like this one — Middy for short .
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