Example sentences of "being called " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE ISRAELI cabinet is being called this week to debate for the first time proposals made by Egypt for advancing the search for a settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict . |
| 2 | Glenys Ingham of Deptford constituency women 's section said : ‘ Some of us feel very angry about the way the system of submitting speakers ’ cards is being used to stop us being called . ’ |
| 3 | Slough 's home match with Clifton has also being called off following Sue Chandler 's call to the colours . |
| 4 | When the bank went into liquidation repayment was demanded and Raper immediately started a £15m action for damages , saying it was being called in earlier than agreed . |
| 5 | Indeed it is this inaccuracy that leads to its often being called a circadian clock ( from the latin , circa — about ; diem — a day ) If it is correctly timed one day , it will be approximately 1 hour late the next , about 2 hours late the day after that , and so on until it will be ‘ useful ’ again after about 3 weeks . |
| 6 | There is a difference between being called a customer and being regarded as one , which seems entirely to have escaped BR . |
| 7 | She was grumbling about being called out at such a late hour . |
| 8 | Mr Gandhi needs to win at least 200 seats nationally to be reasonably certain of being called on to form the next government . |
| 9 | But the Liberal Democrats protested that their front bench spokesman had had to wait nearly five hours to be called by the Speaker instead of being called at the start of the debate like the Government and Opposition . |
| 10 | These were mains-powered luggables , which led to smaller , battery-powered machines being called laptops ( 3c ) . |
| 11 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 12 | THE ABILITY of small firms to continue the past decade 's rapid growth into the 1990s could suffer from increasing problems with what is now being called the ‘ people gap ’ . |
| 13 | In short , the government is being called to account for the economic disaster that is present-day Nicaragua . |
| 14 | The debaters , for fear of being called dissidents , fell into line . |
| 15 | He has , indeed , been further contrasted with Bacon by being called a ‘ rationalist ’ , for he allows only the product of ratiocination or reason to count as ‘ philosophy ’ or ‘ science ’ . |
| 16 | She entered into the shame of bearing God 's Son and even ran the risk of being called a loose woman . |
| 17 | Rules of antiquity ( such as the definition of rape , and the marital exemption ) , of modernity ( such as the definition of incest ) , and of recent creation ( such as the doctrine of mistake in rape ) are being called into question . |
| 18 | For if truth be told , there are n't many black faces to be seen and there certainly are n't black voices raised when the shots are being called . |
| 19 | By now , the candidates are being called out individually for interviews with the backbench MPs . |
| 20 | I remember some years ago being called by a man who told me he had just now heard things for the first time in the Beethoven Fifth . |
| 21 | She still resents being called ‘ The Singing Budgie ’ , the ‘ I Hate Kylie Minogue ’ T-shirts and Melbourne radio stations who played a song called ‘ I Should Be So Yucky . ’ |
| 22 | She was a genuine radical , not ashamed of being called a socialist , who would never , but never , have said yes to the offer of an honour . |
| 23 | To ensure he did not leave before the police came — some 20 minutes after being called — I was able to block the lane by sitting in a garden chair . |
| 24 | That had seemed enough to placate the deputies , who are living in fear of a referendum being called on dissolving the Congress and depriving them of their privileged status . |
| 25 | ANOTHER of the grand golf developments which have been planned for Britain has run into financial difficulties , the receivers being called in at Quietwaters , a £20 million complex being built between Colchester and Maldon in Essex . |
| 26 | The deployment is being called Operation Hanwood , in a return to traditional British naming of operations based on progression through the alphabet . |
| 27 | Within the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick there existed Boston House in the Manor of Boston , with a varied history over many hundreds of years ; also Gunnersbury House — the name Gunnersbury is believed to be derived from Gunilda or Gunyld , a niece of King Canute , who had a house or castle there — which led to the Manor of that area being called ‘ Gunnersbury ’ by the seventeenth century . |
| 28 | If this is the case , it implies that some at least of the feedback systems maintaining human wellbeing may be in difficulties simply because they are being called upon to function near the limits of their capacity . |
| 29 | Ian knew perfectly well that his father loathed being called prof , disliked intensely the way the boy went between the bathroom and his room with his towel flung over his shoulder so that he could flaunt his nakedness . |
| 30 | But she did n't like being called a machine , even an efficient one . |