Example sentences of "[pron] [modal v] to be call " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I used to be called Shorty all through school because I am so small . |
| 2 | For example , to make methyl alcohol ( methanol , which used to be called wood alcohol ) , a 1:2 ratio is required , |
| 3 | Czechoslovakia has some remarkable health centres , such as Karlovy Vary ( which used to be called Carlsbad ) where one can take the waters and have other health treatments . |
| 4 | First there are contributory benefits , which used to be called national insurance benefits . |
| 5 | To my mind that clinched the connection with Pegasus Farm , the Winged Pegasus being the emblem of the Parachute Regiment which used to be called the Red Berets ( when Richard Todd was making films ) but nowadays ( since American Football and Rambo ) referred to themselves as the Maroon Machine . |
| 6 | She ought to be called Lucky , Lucky Something , a double-barrelled name like a smart horse , not just ordinary Lucky like an old mongrel . |
| 7 | Nowadays , nobility is on the side of those who used to be called Redmen , hardly surprising to anyone who has read any of the dreadful history of the spread of Europeans across the West . |
| 8 | The jurisdiction existed as an appellate jurisdiction if an uncalled member of an Inn , who used to be called an ‘ inner barrister ’ from the position he occupied on the forms or barrae in the halls of his Inn : see ‘ Two Problems in Legal History ’ by Bolland , 24 L.Q.R. 392 , 399 , was aggrieved when his Inn refused to permit him to be called to the ‘ utter bar : ’ Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 9 | The ICAEW resolve the problem by choosing an expert from amongst the top 20 – 30 firms , rather than those who used to be called the " big eight " . |
| 10 | And there used to be two on the Road , one used to be called Palladium and one used to be called the Palace . |
| 11 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 12 | They used to be called tea gowns many years ago . |
| 13 | They used to be called waghorns in Lancashire . |
| 14 | They used to be called blue-green algae because they appeared to be close relatives of the green algae that are common in ponds , but now that their very primitive character is recognised , they are referred to as cyanophytes or simply , blue-greens . |
| 15 | ‘ Andy used to tell me that he ought to be called ‘ Boo Linighan ’ because boos were all he seemed to get from our fans — but he 'll deservedly be a hero now , ’ beamed captain Tony Adams after becoming the first man ever to lift both the League and FA Cups in the same season . |
| 16 | According to Gandhi , if it is at all possible for man to describe this power then it ought to be called Truth ( Satya ) , which is a derivative of Sat , which literally means that which is or exists . |
| 17 | Bas said it ought to be called Chuck-up because it 's always being sick . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It ought to be called ‘ The Barber of Fawlty Towers ’ since Peter Knapp 's hilarious version of Rossini 's classic deserves the same sort of popularity enjoyed by that series ’ The Guardian Sun in English by Travelling Opera Directed by Peter Knapp |
| 19 | It used to be called Am Graben which is German for ‘ the moat ’ because that was where the medieval city walls ran . |
| 20 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 21 | It used to be called the ‘ self-build movement ’ , and the wearing of beards and open-toed sandals was close to compulsory . |
| 22 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 23 | It used to be called ‘ the Corner of the World ’ as it was said that , seated at one of the tables on the pavement , a Madeiran would eventually see all the people he knew and meet people from all over the globe . |
| 24 | It used to be called Austin-Morris but changed its name to British Leyland and then Rover . |
| 25 | The bush — or , as it used to be called , dwarf ( misleading these days in view of the growing popularity of the miniature and patio types ) — is the form that is most popular and commonly planted in gardens everywhere . |
| 26 | The basic species type , Rosa pimpinellifolia ( or , as it used to be called , R. spinosissima ) grows very well in most soils , but flourishes particularly in light sandy soils in which it can indulge its natural habit of spreading to form large prickly thickets by means of underground runners and suckers . |
| 27 | There is a word that 's used , there 's a term that 's used for this sort of effect this is the term it used to be called |
| 28 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
| 29 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 30 | They used call the it used to be called the attic you see in them days . |