Example sentences of "called a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apollinaire has been aptly called a company promoter of the avant-garde , responsible , as it were , for the successful flotations in Paris of Cubism and futurism . |
| 2 | The unfriendly comment of Edgar Wind in Art and Anarchy was : ‘ What has optimistically been called a ‘ museum without walls ' ’ is in fact a museum on paper — a paper-world of art in which the epic oratory of Malraux proclaims , with the voice of a crier in the market place , that all art is composed in a single key , that huge monuments and small coins have the same plastic eloquence if transferred to the scale of the printed page , that a gouache can equal a fresco . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 4 | He could well have been called a victim , and his book consigns itself , as Fraser 's does , to that large literature in which the sufferings of victims are recounted : but he does not see himself as a romantic orphan . |
| 5 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 6 | In the North , the bishops pursued the Irish catholic community 's interests in what could only be called a spirit of ‘ pillarization ’ . |
| 7 | In the brewery it is milled into a powder called grist and then mixed with hot water ( known as liquor in breweries ) in a vessel called a mash tun . |
| 8 | After boiling the hopped wort flows from the copper into a vessel called a hop back . |
| 9 | A small wooden peg called a spile is knocked into the soft core of the shive . |
| 10 | A number of brewers now use a device called a cask breather on low volume beers to prolong their life . |
| 11 | In the North a nozzle called a sparkler is often attached to the spout on the bar to give beer the creamy head preferred there . |
| 12 | Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’ |
| 13 | It is all around , all of the time , and not even an interpretation of another but similar society , ‘ at home ’ in what Hastrup ( 1987 ) has called a ‘ parallel culture ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Considerations such as these would seem to lead inevitably towards what is often called a ‘ representational theory of the mind ’ . |
| 16 | The philosopher Mark Johnson has recently produced what can only be called a constructivist account of linguistic meaning and reasoning . |
| 17 | I know there was one called a Woodmaster , and Sears made another . |
| 18 | Its real purpose though — which the editor guessed ( oh yes ? ) — is for strengthening ankles , and it is called a wobble board . |
| 19 | If the dead person has paid for a grave space in the churchyard , there will be a document called a ‘ faculty ’ in existence , and you will need to produce this . |
| 20 | It is this careful attention to traditional dance rhythms which is so important to the style of both ballets , although neither can be called a character or national work ( see page 28 ) . |
| 21 | Choreographers however should avoid what can be called a purely technical analysis of the music by matching particular patterns of steps to particular musical phrases whenever they appear . |
| 22 | Choreographers today also need to understand what can be called a Grammar of Choreography if their work is to emerge as a valid stage presentation . |
| 23 | From the beginning of his career Ashton frequently used the old stereotypes but created unique dances which can be called a translation of favourite comic play into the language of ballet . |
| 24 | It is this particular way of playing which makes Ashton 's La Fille Mal Gardée what can be called a National Ballet in the same sense that both The Firebird and Petrushka can be called Russian National Ballets and Rodeo and Fall River Legend American . |
| 25 | For example : Enigma Variations could be called a character ballet because it describes ‘ the persons empictured within' by Elgar himself . |
| 26 | Robbins ’ Dances at a Gathering could be called a romantic ballet because it uses classical technique coloured by natural emotional expression . |
| 27 | It is thoroughly mixed in a large vessel called a mash tun with hot pure water . |
| 28 | It 's best to use a device called a tiling gauge — a batten marked out in tile widths ( and spaces between tiles ) — to work this out . |
| 29 | Each memory block is called a ‘ bit plane ’ , and supplies one of the bits needed for each pixel . |
| 30 | Mackenzie 's technique uses a variant of Michael Barnsley 's iterated function system , called a fractal interpolation function . |