Example sentences of "[adv] [be] call [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a position should rightly be called humanist . |
| 2 | In the very strongest language , which can rightly be called anger , Jesus expresses his seven woes against religious leaders who put religiosity before worship of the true and living God ( cf. Matt. 23 ) . |
| 3 | An Act of Parliament abolished the very surname and ordained that the property outside Perth should henceforth be called Huntingtower . |
| 4 | It is clear that these larger groups or phyla have arisen because of what can only be called co-evolution : the changes to take place in their body types have been more or less continuously in tune with evolutionary changes in their habitat or environment . |
| 5 | writing and neatness can just be called presentation . |
| 6 | These processes range from ( a ) active illustration ( still relatively simple ) to ( b ) kinds of active reinvention and exploratory discovery and , crucially , ( c ) tension , contradiction or what would elsewhere be called dissent . |
| 7 | They have been used in the UK for many years and legislation allows the addition of 5 per cent of CBE fats ( about 15 per cent of the fat phase ) , and the product can still be called chocolate . |
| 8 | Slowly , slowly , at the pace of a snail , both front wheels gained traction and in a matter of minutes , of seconds , the recalcitrant back wheel gave up its suicidal spinning and followed the others on to firm ground , if sand can ever be called firm . |
| 9 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 10 | By all accounts , Elena was the architect of this meanness : it could hardly be called peasant hoarding , since she would not keep leftovers , but certainly discouraged even her husband from rare bouts of generosity to the staff . |
| 11 | It could also be called ordeal by song , though the traditional and somewhat discordant songs sung by the trainers are said to have a soothing effect . |
| 12 | It could perhaps also be called squarane . |
| 13 | Jobbing production may also be called job production or unique production . |
| 14 | Drawings , usually of people and animals , in a simple style where the arms and legs look like sticks ; these may also be called pin figures or matchstick figures . |
| 15 | Five or six other kids — who , says Grassmuck , would probably be called otaku today — carried out copycat crimes in the following months . |
| 16 | What can properly be called art is still , in majority , an inherent and inseparable element of some other purpose . |
| 17 | He was musing that the synthetic religions of Stalin and Hitler should neither of them ‘ properly be called pagan , but if you do call them pagan then we must say that they 're inferior as religions to genuine primitive pagan religion ’ . |
| 18 | It can not really be called page makeup but it 's probably more useful for the businessman than any page makeup program . |
| 19 | They may shade off into what might more appropriately be called ethnocentrism , where ethnic groups are defined primarily in cultural terms and are regarded as having essential traits . |
| 20 | But would I be doing more than playing with words which sound agreeable to me , ‘ dignity ’ , ‘ freedom ’ , ‘ responsibility ’ , to describe what could still just as well be called nihilism ? |
| 21 | This article , then , is motivated by a dissatisfaction or a discomfort with most of what passes for television theory : the doubts about the existence of anything which can usefully be called television theory are real . |
| 22 | It takes place at night and might almost be called ordeal by fire . |
| 23 | Shelley Cameron could never be called strait-laced , but she was finding the atmosphere rather more lively than she was used to back in her little cottage on the sleepy borders between England and Scotland . |
| 24 | In this case without it this would be methane so this would actually be called methoxy methane . |
| 25 | The two examples that Picasso owned on the other hand could certainly be called primitive , both in conception and execution . |