Example sentences of "called by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Beyond this ’ , however , leaves indefinite the point at which , or frequency with which , the use of biography deserves to be called by that name . |
| 2 | So Leonard was called by name from among the congregation , arose and ascended the steps , stepped on to the special box placed for short candidates like himself , and recited in Hebrew the traditional blessing before the reading of the Torah : |
| 3 | ( 1 ) It can move itself and has biological needs ( not just for food and warmth and the like , but the need to use its faculties — Functionlust as it was once called by a German psychologist ) . |
| 4 | The special general meeting called by the Union for Friday will be held in camera following a general committee vote to exclude the press . |
| 5 | For example , Ron Todd of the Transport and General Workers ' Union blamed the systematic bias and ignorance of the courts , and the new freedom to dismiss strikers granted by this Government , for the failure of the dock strike which was called by his union this summer . |
| 6 | Professor Krauskopf will be Switzerland 's legal expert at the Paris conference , called by the seven richest industrial nations at their summit in June . |
| 7 | Glossary of popular terms Ball : called by the umpire when a pitch misses the strike zone . |
| 8 | When the firemen went on strike in 1977 , a state of emergency was called by the Callaghan government and the army was employed in a strike-breaking capacity with the use of ‘ green goddess ’ fire-fighting vehicles . |
| 9 | Called by Olybrius ' anger , the dragon rushed on crimson wings , down from its home in the cold north . |
| 10 | The fact that several types of relatives can be called by the same term does not mean that they can not be distinguished . |
| 11 | There is no correlation at all between the number of types of relatives that are called by the same word and the number of legitimate sexual partners in marriage . |
| 12 | This type of exchange is often called by anthropologists gift exchange . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The attackers then called by loudhailer on those in the house to surrender . |
| 15 | As the fastest growing sport in the UK with some 450,000 active participants , it is important that the sport is called by its official title — ‘ WINDSUFRING ’ — RYA press release . |
| 16 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 17 | I have no hesitation , therefore , in speaking of the Church itself as ‘ sacrament ’ in the sense that here is this broken body which is called by his name , I meet him and he indwells it . |
| 18 | Mark Sanders was called by the Chairman after an hour 's discussion . |
| 19 | ‘ Triumphant death ’ , as it came to be called by Evangelicals , was , first and foremost , a triumph with Christ over death ; in St Paul 's words , ‘ Death is swallowed up in victory . ’ |
| 20 | Another common sentence often called by horses is : ‘ Where are you ? ’ , and the reply of , ‘ I 'm here ! ’ , surprisingly sounds just the same ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Closet Republicans they are called by some , boll weevils by others . |
| 23 | Euro Disneyland 's railway station , provided by the French government , was closed yesterday by a strike called by rail unions to spoil the big day . |
| 24 | At the inquiry , called by the stewards after Willie Carson had driven Iywaan home along the rail , Eddery explained that Alhamad had been hanging badly left throughout the last half-mile . |
| 25 | The Reformed Pastor was originally intended as a sermon to be preached on a fast day called by the Worcestershire Association of Ministers ( who looked to Baxter as their leader ) to seek God 's blessing on their pastoral work . |
| 26 | Miller 's Vinca rosea ( now Catharanthus roseus ) had been brought forward : ‘ as this plant is a great novelty in Europe … the Figure of the Plant has not yet been seen by any living person ’ and of Gardenia capense , called by him Jasminium , he wrote , ‘ Could we have procured a good drawing in proper time it would have been in its proper place , but as this is so curious and being an undescribed plant , we hope our purchasers will not be displeased with insertion here . ’ |
| 27 | One , seldom more than three feet high and called by Ray the Dwarf Red Rose , had small flowers and rounded buds which before opening appeared ‘ as if they had been clipp 'd with Scissars ’ . |
| 28 | With affectionate humour he described her and his favourite aunt ( called by her clergyman father in remembrance of the line in Acts where when ‘ Peter knocked at the door of the gate , a damsel came to hearken , named Rhoda ’ ) as being like ‘ a couple of Bengal matches — you know , those fizzy things with a pink light ’ . |
| 29 | Operation Gold , as it was called by the CIA , was approved and the first task was to establish a suitable cover story . |
| 30 | Its authority was quickly established when it called off the demonstration called by the meeting of radicals on 8 October . |