Example sentences of "called [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 In June 1963 , Pope John XXIII , the Pope who had called the second Vatican Council , died .
2 Ace called the second night after she got back .
3 None of the belligerents intended to fight what was called the second world war , they all entered into conflict , they all began er a rearmament programme with the idea of using violence as a means to secure lesser objectives .
4 The two-day meeting , called the Second Emergency Restoration-Unification Congress , formally restored the Russian Communist Party that lost much of its prestige , power and resources after the August 1991 coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev .
5 The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district .
6 The next printing , of 1866 , was from new type and was therefore the second edition , often , if not accurately , called the first published edition , on the grounds that , since so few of the 1865 copies were published and a number were recalled by Carroll , it was really a private printing and does n't count .
7 The principle of conservation of energy is sometimes called the First Law of Thermodynamics .
8 But I find myself left with what may be called the first main proposition of this book :
9 The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training .
10 The quantities U , q and w are related by the equation This mathematical relationship is called the first law of thermodynamics .
11 Dr Howe … an Oxford graduate … had been a tutor in English at the Open University based at Foxcombe Hall in Oxford for the past two years … she 's recently published her first book … through Cambridge university Press called the First English Actresses … colleagues say she had a bright future .
12 THE ACTRESS Helen Hayes , who came to be called the first lady of the American stage in a career that spanned eight decades , died on Wednesday at the age of 92 .
13 He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated .
14 But it was getting out of those beta-waves , down into the alpha-waves and into what is called the fifth state of consciousness — the healing state — that was so difficult .
15 The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force .
16 A heavy gypsy with an untamed beard and sparrow hands , who introduced himself as Melquíades , put on a bold public demonstration of what he himself called the eighth wonder of the learned alchemists of Macedonia .
17 His most bitter disappointment came when the music entrepreneur Phil Spector pulled back from financing a screenplay Hopper had written called The Last Movie ( it was eventually produced in 1970 ) about Hollywood 's exploitation and destruction of South American Indians .
18 When your mother was Lorna Lewis , and still got called the last great blonde in Hollywood even if she had n't made a picture for ages , it was , worse than gross , it was a total bummer .
19 She had let Paul name the boys ; with rare magnanimity , he had called the last one after her father .
20 Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices ( Joy is also a trained nurse ) , Alan and I went back to the house and between us brought the coffin down from the loft .
21 erm There they might have remained erm but erm a sensational discovery took place , which was during the Second World War , when , in the Blitz , a bomb actually hit the , the , the place of worship for the Muddletonians , where they were still worshipping though in very small number , and the man whom we have called the last Muddletonian , who was a farmer in Matfield in Kent , went out with his lorry — you remember petrol was rationed during the war , but he was allowed as a farmer — he took his fruit to Covent Garden , and then went to the smoking ruins of the Muddletonian worship , and filled his apple boxes with papers , and they remained there until the nineteen seventies .
22 He 'd called the next day , and Marlin had picked up .
23 Chair , chair point of order , you do n't , point of order you , Mr does n't need to move an an amendment or anything else , you can still accept debate on any item on the agenda until you 've called the next agenda item , irrespective of the motion on the table .
24 The police were called the next day .
25 Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World .
26 It is called A First Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics ( 1980 ) .
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