Example sentences of "be called [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | one of them thingies , one of them jacks , and then you 've got one of them , I do n't even , I do n't know what they 're called but I 've seen it before |
| 2 | Starters were bowls of a rich stock soup with julienne of vegetables ( if that 's what they 're called when they 're chopped into sticks ) and the earthenware bowls had puff pastry hats on which kept the soup scalding hot . |
| 3 | The referendums had been called after it became clear during the campaign leading up to the June Maastricht referendum that the Irish Constitution 's restrictive abortion provisions could clash with EC rights to freedom of movement and information [ see p. 38942 ] . |
| 4 | But Ca ’ del Leone has been called that since the days of the doges … |
| 5 | During the course of the campaign the Liberal leader failed to deflect charges that the early election was prompted by political opportunism , and that it had been called while the Liberals still enjoyed a lead in the opinion polls , but with an economic downturn in prospect . |
| 6 | ‘ This meeting has been called because of the urgency of the situation . |
| 7 | Alun Evans , secretary of the Welsh football association who doubles up as chairman of the UAU committee , said : ‘ I was informed by the chairman of the UAU rugby committee that he was discussing the possible sponsorship of its championship and I received a copy of a proposal … it contained a number of features which were not acceptable to the union and it was therefore with great surprise that we learned a launch for the sponsorship had been called and it was decided that the union could not agree to this action . ’ |
| 8 | Having been called and commissioned , then came the course of action , or the programme that followed the call . |
| 9 | But having been called and commissioned , we should expect the programme to take shape . |
| 10 | The police had been called and , following her description , a young man had been apprehended . |
| 11 | On the contrary , some can , and have often been called and regarded as causal laws . |
| 12 | During that time , thirty eight witnesses have been called and mounds of financial documents have been examined . |
| 13 | The country 's most popular horse race was reduced to a shambles last April when 30 riders failed to realise that a second false start had been called and the event had to be declared void . |
| 14 | Pressures towards manpower production meant in effect , that demands from higher levels of the education system fed down towards the primary curriculum and there was a certain rather questionable pyramid philosophy built on the premise that ‘ many are called but few are chosen ’ . |
| 15 | It takes account of what the products are called and where they rest . |
| 16 | Eventually , flights are called and business cards are exchanged . |
| 17 | That lives on , and we are called and challenged to share it , to hear the words once spoken by the lake-side , ‘ Come , follow me . ’ |
| 18 | In time ‘ yeoman ’ came to mean primarily a farmer who had raised himself out of the ruck of common husbandman , ‘ such as be exempted out of the rascalitie of the popular bee called and written yeomen , as in the degree next vnto gentlemen ’ ; and while careful to avoid making wealth appear the sole criterion , Smith adds that ‘ these tende their owne businesse , come not to meddle in publike matters and iudgements but when they are called and glad when they are deliuered thereof ’ . |
| 19 | But this does not relieve courts of the need to decide technical issues arising in litigation : expert witnesses are called and courts are often required to choose between the conflicting testimony of expert witnesses called by opposing parties . |
| 20 | Unless they are called as witnesses , victims are often not told when a case is coming to court . |
| 21 | It is relatively unimportant what these conditions are called as long as they are characterised by a sufficient number of symptoms of depression to be definable as cases . |
| 22 | 11.7 When an employee has been assaulted in the course of duty , the police must be called unless the manager and employee make a case for this not to be done . |
| 23 | A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called . |
| 24 | " It was what my mother said I was to be called before she died . |
| 25 | I hope that the hon. Members who are fortunate enough to be called before will bear in mind that limit in fairness to their colleagues . |
| 26 | Somehow , with Aunt Millie 's help , it had come all right — if being turned out , forbidden to see your sisters or brother , cut off without a penny , your name never to be mentioned at the family dinner-table , could be called that … . |
| 27 | The prodigal , if he could be called that , had returned . |
| 28 | He wanted to be called when you arrived . |
| 29 | Such a bond is likely to be called when the market rate of interest is lower than the coupon rate on the bond . |
| 30 | An initial child protection conference should not be called until there has been a s47 investigation into any incident or allegation of abuse which gives rise to concern . |