Example sentences of "it is [adv] called " in BNC.

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1 It is not called burning bush for nothing : I am tempted by the reputation its seed pods have for giving off a halo of oil vapour on still summer 's evenings .
2 If a document resembles the form of a debenture although it is not called such , the usual rights and liabilities accrue to the holder .
3 That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years !
4 This is a sort of notional rent payment , though it is not called that because social security does not want to be seen as having returned to paying rents .
5 The ‘ link building ’ as it is aptly called , houses the warehouse , yarn store , dispatch , a new canteen , and above it a new sales office .
6 Prepare the cross-spar to the length indicated ( about 60mm longer than the spine ) and you will soon see why it is generally called a ‘ spreader ’ , as you stick first one end down with more strong tape , then have to curve it , in order to fit it within the kite shape at the other end and onto the final corner .
7 The Pedrarias expedition , as it is generally called today , left Spain with 2,000 men in April 1514
8 Automated telling machines outside banks — ‘ through the wall banking ’ as it is picturesquely called — are now a familiar part of the High Street scene .
9 It is locally called the ‘ toq-toq ’ from its call .
10 You may have come across Roget as it is affectionately called , but we are willing to bet that not many of our readers habitually use the book or have it on their shelves .
11 So standardized is it that it is widely called ‘ the attitude test ’ ( a phrase also used by American police , see van Maanen 1978 ) , and when stopping members of the public constables are routinely instructed by colleagues to give the potential offender ‘ the attitude test ’ .
12 There is little doubt that debt counselling , or money advice as it is also called , is the major ‘ growth ’ area among all CABx enquiries .
13 It is also called St Austin 's Stone , because of the legend that St Augustine ( also known as ‘ Austin' ) preached from it and baptized converts in the spring below .
14 But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house .
15 To anyone not running a company , the fuss among businessmen about re-engineering — or ‘ process redesign ’ as it is also called — seems puzzling .
16 ( In the United States it is also called Lou Gehrig 's disease . )
17 This dust is sometimes called fines , and it is also called soil but this is a poor term because it implies an organic component , which is absent .
18 Moreover , if it is later called upon , the value of the certificate of title may depend on the solicitor 's insurance policy ; in larger transactions it may be appropriate to enquire whether the vendor 's solicitor 's insurance policy is sufficient to cover any liability under the certificate of title .
19 A leasehold estate is measured by a fixed period of time ; it is often called a term of years , though a tenancy for weeks or months is equally a leasehold .
20 The modern Letter of Credit ( or Documentary Credit as it is often called ) which is used in international trade can be traced back , at least in part , to the Travellers Letter of Credit .
21 Absorption or wet scrubbing as it is often called has however the disadvantage of having to dispose of the liquid effluent obtained , which may itself require treatment before disposal , and has led to the comment that we may be merely replacing one effluent problem by another by using this method .
22 It is often called an eclipsing variable , though it should more properly be described as an eclipsing binary .
23 This classical law of contract , as it is often called , represents one of the acmes of legal formalist scholarship by virtue of its clear rules and their clusters of logical derivatives .
24 It is often called Ramsey pricing , after Frank Ramsey who first flamed this ( or , rather , a similar ) problem in 1928 .
25 It is often called ‘ stylometry ’ .
26 It is often called ‘ intrapreneurship ’ .
27 Men from the SAS and Delta Force infiltrated a number of towns and cities during the war , and Saddam Hussein himself told several of his visitors that the SIS ( or M16 , as it is often called ) had sent in three Pakistani agents to attend the Islamic conference which Iraq summoned a few days before the UN deadline .
28 For this reason it is often called a back e.m.f .
29 It is often called the god from the sea , and this may have encouraged the identification as Poseidon .
30 The largest of these was the Forum of Trajan but the oldest is the Forum Romanum , or as it is often called , simply ‘ the Forum ’ .
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