Example sentences of "is called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some writing which is called art criticism will be helpful , some will not ; other writing will also be valuable , although whether it can be described as art criticism may be disputable . |
| 2 | Charles is touchingly done — a frail unpublished poet kept going by his wife and son ( the wife is called Vivien , presumably by design , though she is no copy of the first Mrs Eliot ) , their household a breath of fresh air in the conniving , phrase-making milieu to which Charles clings . |
| 3 | Many American students working in British drama schools find the answer to this question by using what is called ‘ standard American ’ , and this approach is being used now in training on both sides of the Atlantic . |
| 4 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 5 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 6 | The system used in Britain to produce mild , bitter , stout and strong ales is called ‘ warm fermentation ’ , using a special type of top fermenting yeast . |
| 7 | When it is electro-plated with silver it is called electro-plated nickel silver ( EPNS ) . |
| 8 | His voice was what is called , I am understanding , Cockney or perhaps Australian . ’ |
| 9 | The tendency to move or grow towards light is called phototropism . |
| 10 | Sometimes this is called aerobic exercise , and cycling is an excellent form of aerobics . |
| 11 | Sometimes the IUD comes out this is called expulsion . |
| 12 | Should this occur , a team which is relaxing may find itself out of earshot when their name is called . |
| 13 | Though this is called a joint , the sacroiliac is n't really capable of much movement , and when pressure is repeatedly applied the joint surfaces become inflamed . |
| 14 | Its real purpose though — which the editor guessed ( oh yes ? ) — is for strengthening ankles , and it is called a wobble board . |
| 15 | Work out the amount that the Government says you need to live on , ( this is called your applicable amount ) . |
| 16 | This is called your ‘ applicable amount ’ and depends on your age and whether you are disabled or not . |
| 17 | This is called the Lisson Grove package . |
| 18 | Choreographers should understand that counting beats or what is called the measure of the music is not dance rhythm . |
| 19 | The constant use of what is called the ‘ feminine cadence ’ is a particular rhythmic feature . |
| 20 | This is called Erdinger Stiftungs ( the second word means foundation ) . |
| 21 | It is called the Falaise d'Ayen . |
| 22 | A The disease you refer to is called Lyme Disease and , as you rightly point out , it can affect people and other animals . |
| 23 | LT-GaAs as it is called , is made by molecular beam epitaxy ( MBE ) at the relatively low temperature of 200°C . |
| 24 | Each memory block is called a ‘ bit plane ’ , and supplies one of the bits needed for each pixel . |
| 25 | Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation . |
| 26 | Or delight whereby t is called ‘ to love ’ |
| 27 | And he is the-hero-as-artist , who is called upon to make just such recognitions , of the divinely eternal through the veil of the quotidian . |
| 28 | It is called insurance . |
| 29 | Some Anglicans would certainly go further : the Bishop of Birmingham , the Right Rev Mark Santer , who is the Anglican co-chairman of the theological commission trying to overcome doctrinal differences between the two Churches , says : If Anglicans and other non-Roman Catholics really do believe that the Christian Church is called to be at peace with itself , how — given the fact that Christians are sinful — do you actually keep the show together ? |
| 30 | All these incinerators offer what is called ‘ merchant capacity ’ — they sell their facilities to dispose of other people 's waste , but do not produce the waste themselves . |