Example sentences of "can be called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though ambition has been the grave of many minor artists , it is also that without which no artist can be called major — with all the provisos about art , artists , major , minor , already touched on . |
| 2 | She could be described as prejudiced but she can no more be called a racist than a rape victim who hates men can be called sexist . |
| 3 | This common knowledge of shared experience and conventionally sanctioned reality can be called schematic knowledge : it is the knowledge which is acquired as a condition of entry into a particular culture or sub-culture . |
| 4 | Mental events are contained in rather than identical with what can be called personal epistemic facts . |
| 5 | National expenditure , then , can be called actual expenditure , while aggregate demand can be called planned expenditure . |
| 6 | The fact that they replicate , together with certain further conditions means , willy nilly , that they will tend towards the evolution of qualities which , in the special sense of this book , can be called selfish . |
| 7 | Such examples lead on to Nagel 's definition of moral luck : ‘ Where a significant aspect of what someone does depends upon factors beyond his control , yet we continue to treat him in that respect as an object of moral judgment , it can be called moral luck . |
| 8 | It is this particular way of playing which makes Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée what can be called a National Ballet in the same sense that both The Firebird and Petrushka can be called Russian National Ballets and Rodeo and Fall River Legend American . |
| 9 | So far as non-observation sentences are concerned , Quine 's theory of meaning can be called holistic . |
| 10 | The tendency to have such causes and effects can be called emotive meaning , if one likes . |
| 11 | The caveat , to state it simply , is that it is to be taken as a view of only our conception of what can be called standard effects : all those where the effects are not decisions , choices , like mental acts of persons , or ensuing actions . |
| 12 | A literary text is , manifestly , the product of a particular historical situation , and may be interpreted in the light of its origins and initial reception , as has been done in the discussions of Romantic literature by Marilyn Butler and Jerome J. McGann , who can be called New Historicists minus the ideological charge . |
| 13 | Whether it is or not , the poem can be called distinctive — distinctive both of Larkin and of Amis . |
| 14 | National expenditure , then , can be called actual expenditure , while aggregate demand can be called planned expenditure . |
| 15 | What is more , there is very little that can be called oceanic crust or trench-filling sediment ( flysch , olistostromes , etc. ) within the Hercynian massifs of Europe . |
| 16 | The types of organizational change that can be called transformational are as follows : |
| 17 | They are what can be called logical , conceptual , or formal relations rather than causal relations . |
| 18 | Given that the coin was put in , it was then a matter of what can be called real chance that the bar came out . |
| 19 | The given connection between causal circumstance and effect is in fact the principal instance of what can be called fundamental nomic connection or fundamental necessary connection . |
| 20 | Since means of production and means of consumption normally re-enter the productive process , their consumption can be called productive consumption . |
| 21 | There are , unfortunately , few pieces of software that can be called useless . |
| 22 | Firstly , just as recent theories of the mind suggest there is not one but multiple kinds of intelligence ( Gardner , 1983 ) , so too the notion of vision seems to involve a variety of mental capacities , what can be called visionary style . |
| 23 | All these fabrics , knitted with the different ribber settings , can be called double jacquard , but they are different . |
| 24 | Comparisons between different women 's magazines show the variety of forms of conduct which can be called feminine . |
| 25 | Thermal underwear may be a multi-million pound industry , but did you know that any article of clothing can be called thermal ? |
| 26 | ( The inverted commas here indicate that there is considerable debate about which countries can be called socialist . ) |
| 27 | Balanchine , Ashton , MacMillan and now Bintley break many conventions , but they never lose sight of its true qualities in those of their ballets which can be called classical . |
| 28 | Ashton and MacMillan adopt the same practice in their ballets which can be called classical in the court meaning of the term and whenever the music used is composed according to the formulae for classical composition . |
| 29 | We have now identified two levels of stress : primary and secondary , as well as a third level which can be called unstressed and regarded as being the absence of any recognisable amount of prominence . |
| 30 | Thirdly , there are those which can be called abstract ballets , among which are Symphonic Variations and Monotones I and II . |