Example sentences of "as it is called " in BNC.
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1 | LT-GaAs as it is called , is made by molecular beam epitaxy ( MBE ) at the relatively low temperature of 200°C . |
2 | The Employee Development and Assistance Programme , as it is called , is part of the campaign to win greater ‘ employee involvement ’ . |
3 | Older Kashmiri women stick to the traditional Kashmiri form where the Kamiz ( or the Kurta as it is called in Kashmir ) is rather long , usually with a distinct waist , and the trousers are full , almost bulbous , with a deep and stiff cuff at the ankle . |
4 | This ‘ lift ’ , as it is called , enabled the foot of the doors to clear the manure in the yard and kept pigs off the threshing floor when the doors were open . |
5 | THE centuries-old five-dice game of liardice — or liar 's dice as it is called in North America — has a modern problem . |
6 | But he can do this : he considers the petition , or Bill , as it is called ; if he thinks there is anything in the case , he issues a writ which requires the person complained against to appear , not in a Common Law Court , but before himself , and answer the petition on oath . |
7 | Freud says , ‘ In those women who are sexually anaesthetic as it is called , the clitoris has stubbornly retained this sensitivity . ’ |
8 | This is often misunderstood as cleaning oneself of contamination , but is obviously not the case as is proven by the fact that they had to clean themselves carefully before going into the bath , or mikva as it is called , so it becomes clear that it was to purify themselves spiritually , not physically . |
9 | ‘ Suggestive praise ’ as it is called , goes beyond this . |
10 | If your child seems unable to play without quarrelling you could try a ‘ token economy ’ , as it is called . |
11 | Therefore people can infect themselves and auto-infection , as it is called , is important to recognise as a source of infection . |
12 | Nevertheless if the patient is mentally and emotionally unaffected but has , for example , a pain somewhere , then the details of the pain will make up the whole case , or ‘ totality ’ as it is called , for which a similar remedy must be found . |
13 | This poppet , as it is called , is then damaged in an appropriate way , if the magician wishes a person harm . |
14 | Frequently ‘ one-trial learning ’ , as it is called , is all that is necessary . |
15 | This auto-haemorrhage , as it is called , is an astonishing refinement of the death-feigning strategy , implying that predators pay a great deal of attention to minute details of their prey 's condition . |
16 | By the end of the day the swear bag , as it is called , contained £25.35 for the poor of Adel . |
17 | We shall have occasion to discuss sarvodaya , as it is called , in greater detail at a later stage . |
18 | Like secularisation , this ‘ privatisation ’ , as it is called by sociologists , affects Christians because it affects everybody living in modernity . |
19 | It meant he was happy in his room at Tirionfa , as it is called , and in any case ‘ home ’ , to Nigel , was always where his bed was . |
20 | Mount Cook , or Aoraki ( Cloud-Piercer ) as it is called by the Maoris , has suffered from massively shrinking glaciers in recent years , which is never good for a mountain 's constitution , and heavy snowfalls with a recent warm spell have n't helped . |
21 | Give As You earn , as it is called , raised over £10m for charity in its first three years . |
22 | You will find it very much safer to use instead the thin blade known as a ‘ key-hole saw ’ or , as it is called in the form in which the blade passes into the handle and is gripped by a screw , a ‘ pad saw ’ . |
23 | VRT 3 , as it is called , has over 100 new features , making it easier to use but more powerful than its predecessor , according to Dimension . |
24 | And because it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly . |
25 | Posting some of the city 's bills to another address — ‘ load-shedding ’ , as it is called — is a remedy that appeals to New York politicians . |
26 | Much of this hraun , as it is called in Iceland , is moss-covered and liable to break off underfoot ; it is very hard on boots — and ankles ! |
27 | The lesser rorqual ( or minke , as it is called in Norway ) is the largest of the cetaceans likely to be met with in inshore water around Shetland . |
28 | And be cause it makes use of the speed of light for complicated parallel interconnections , it can still handle the large volume of calculations — or weighting as it is called — involved in the learning process quickly . |
29 | The NIM6000 , as it is called , includes high-resolution Mbus colour graphics on the system motherboard , freeing cloners from reliance on a GX accelerator . |
30 | Activity in giant cells in the pontine brainstem have been shown to precede eye movements in REM sleep in animals ( or paradoxical sleep , as it is called in rodents and cats ) while there is no evidence that cortical activity can influence these cells ' discharges . |