Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [be] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This one is expected to be called A Vision Of The Earth .
2 The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box .
3 Quincx had insisted on telling both of them the details of Zambia 's difficulties , despite protests from Tammuz , feeling both women needed to be given a reason for the delay in Ari 's treatment .
4 The film sticks to the standard Bo plot — older man ( Anthony Quinn ) lusts comically after her body — but with Bo cracking on a bit , the stakes have had to be raised a bit .
5 Tom would have had to be pushed a lot further before he would have done it .
6 Jesus taught his followers that life was meant to be lived a day at a time .
7 Autocratic , powerful and ambitious , he had long been jealous of the Emperor and had aspired to be made a Negus .
8 She was the only player from almost 100 who were screened to be offered a place on the squad .
9 To devote resources to the training of young people may be , au fond , as much entitled to be considered a process of investment as devoting resources to directly productive capital goods .
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