Example sentences of "[am/are] commonly called " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have before noticed that what are commonly called warm colours are not necessary to produce the impression of warmth in landscape ; and this picture affords , to me , the strongest possible proof of the truth of this . |
| 2 | In waters where bream breed prolifically , spawning every season to a lesser or greater extent , the shoals of small bream — skimmers as they are commonly called — can run into thousands . |
| 3 | Aphids , or as they are commonly called , greenfly ( and not uncommonly blackfly ) , are given a fair description and discussion in question number 1 ( see page 123 ) . |
| 4 | In an Act of 1662 in the reign of Charles II there is reference to ‘ a great number of lewd disorderly and lawless persons , being thieves and robbers , who are commonly called Moss-troopers ’ . |
| 5 | A metric space is a set , commonly called X , or perhaps S. The elements of X are commonly called ’ points ’ , since they are supposed to have no size . |
| 6 | By contrast , there are those who are commonly called ‘ reluctant organists ’ . |
| 7 | Acceptance houses are an elite sub-group of what are commonly called merchant banks . |
| 8 | The nematodes are commonly called roundworms , from their appearance in cross-section . |
| 9 | The family Ancylostomidae , whose members are commonly called hookworms because of the characteristic hook posture of their anterior ends , are responsible for widespread morbidity and mortality in animals primarily due to their blood-sucking activities in the intestine . |