Example sentences of "are [adv] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | These packets are properly called pillows , and the lavas pillow lavas . |
| 2 | What he means is that the success of what are elegantly called ‘ front-end ’ authors like Archer and Clancy pulls the other , presumably ‘ rear-end ’ , authors in its wake . |
| 3 | In practice , children under the age of eight are rarely called as witnesses and judges still follow a 1958 House of Lords ruling that a jury could not attach any importance to the evidence of a child of five . |
| 4 | This may seem an unimportant omission : we are rarely called upon to deal with spoken or written non-words in the course of day-to-day linguistic activities . |
| 5 | Specific control measures for Strongyloides infection are rarely called for . |
| 6 | In a Box kite , the four main spars are some-times called ‘ longerons ’ . |
| 7 | The High Court , the Crown Court and the Court of Appeal are together called the Supreme Court . |
| 8 | They are apparently called Chesapeake Bay Retrievers although |
| 9 | Smock or frock mills are so called because their shape is said to resemble a man dressed in a smock . |
| 10 | The box terrapins are so called because of their ability to close the undershell or plastron at both front and back . |
| 11 | The warehouses known as the ‘ Little Germany ’ are so called because of their flamboyant architectural style . |
| 12 | French Tomatoes are so called because in the traditional recipe French cream cheese is used in place of the low fat cottage cheese . |
| 13 | But it 's believed that the majority of cases of tuberculosis , that we actually see , are so called post-primary tuberculosis where all of this process is taking place asymptomatically and the host is in this state of balance but something else comes along and stresses cell mediated immunity and the control breaks down so that th the organism M T B wins out very dramatically over the , over the macrophages and you end up with this post-primary pattern of tuberculosis . |
| 14 | Ransom strips are so called because they change hands at high values , often up to one third of the total site value . |
| 15 | Those papers known commercially as pastel papers are so called because they are coloured and often because they have a machine-made laid effect . |
| 16 | The inert gases are so called because they do not readily form chemical compounds . |
| 17 | The LIFESPAN Meta PI routines are so called because they provide a VMS command interface to LIFESPAN in a similar way to the Procedural Interface ( PI ) routines , but unlike PI they are supplied as executables for performing the following specific functions : Update Baseline , Directory Integrity Check , and Type Module . |
| 18 | The clearing banks are so called because they operate a central clearing house in London . |
| 19 | What we 've had in parts of London are so called turf wars between crack crack dealers , crack sellers , fighting for territory . |
| 20 | I find that these people who are so called on the cheap that the product is not very good , well if you say say you call it by one of them |
| 21 | These vehicles , or ‘ rigs ’ as they are normally called , were just some of those in use with 28 Amphibious Engineer Regiment on that stifling June afternoon , and the troop was nearing the end of a three-week Commanding Officer 's Exercise . |
| 22 | If this is not your first name , then you may give the name by which you are normally called . |
| 23 | The vast majority of what are generally called well-educated persons in this country have , in the very process of their education , been impressed with the belief that metre is an arrangement of language which can be judged by the application of a mechanical test , and that the poet who produces a line which does not answer to the test is a fit subject for correction by any critic who can point out the discrepancy . |
| 24 | The people are generally called on to elect a special constituent assembly mandated to draft a constitution , though this may not always be the case — as in General de Gaulle 's constitution for the Fifth Republic . |
| 25 | The second kind of activity is handled by what are generally called " database management systems " . |
| 26 | At the four ancient Scottish universities , however , first degrees in art faculties are generally called Master of Arts ( MA ) , although the newer Scottish universities and the CNAA in Scotland follow the English system and award bachelor degrees . |
| 27 | For the purposes of this chapter such clauses are generally called " exemption clauses " and references to " exclusion " of liability include partial exclusion or restriction as well as total exclusion . |
| 28 | There are also still about a hundred racing dinghies of the same class as Port and Starboard 's Flash : Yare and Bure one-designs which are always called after butterflies . |
| 29 | ‘ … the Jaguthin are always called away . |
| 30 | The Kyrie-Christe is based on one of the set of conventional tenors employed at this period in English votive Masses of the Virgin , for instance those of Nicolas Ludford ( c. 1485–c. 1557 ) , which are mysteriously called ‘ squares ’ . |