Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] [adv] be called [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I die , I 'll still be called Stuart Hughes . |
| 2 | So were the shapeless spaces between the buildings , which could never be called streets . |
| 3 | As a result , in the nineteenth century a national region which could fairly be called Yakutia extended over 1,6000 kilometres from the Vilyui river to the Kolyma and nearly as far from the middle Lena to the shores of the Arctic Ocean . |
| 4 | This article , then , is motivated by a dissatisfaction or a discomfort with most of what passes for television theory : the doubts about the existence of anything which can usefully be called television theory are real . |
| 5 | In the very strongest language , which can rightly be called anger , Jesus expresses his seven woes against religious leaders who put religiosity before worship of the true and living God ( cf. Matt. 23 ) . |
| 6 | No — their secrets were first revealed to curious scientific men , to apothecaries and simples-collectors , to people who could now be called botanists , and such was Evan Roberts . |
| 7 | The 28-year-old barrister from Oxton gave birth to the baby who will probably be called Benjamin in Arrowe Park hospital on Tuesday . |
| 8 | The most popular closed back items are usually referred to as " superfine Pekings " ( or just " Pekings " ) , although they may also be called Tientsins , Sinkiangs or simply Chinese . |
| 9 | They could therefore be called continuants , though the term is usually applied to the frictionless continuant /r/ . |
| 10 | It could also be called ordeal by song , though the traditional and somewhat discordant songs sung by the trainers are said to have a soothing effect . |
| 11 | By all accounts , Elena was the architect of this meanness : it could hardly be called peasant hoarding , since she would not keep leftovers , but certainly discouraged even her husband from rare bouts of generosity to the staff . |
| 12 | ‘ A senior police officer and a police surgeon , both very pleasant and helpful , admitted that in their courting days they had indeed persevered and had sexual intercourse despite protests from the women they were with ; an actor asked in fascination how it could possibly be called rape if a woman had gone so far before protesting ; a dentist [ stated ] ‘ I have had it with dozens of women against their will . |
| 13 | It can also be called velours paper or velvet paper . |
| 14 | For as long as a Stephen , in his moments of strength , has been able to despise the arbiters of fortune and culture — the English and the Anglo Irish — as degenerate and unworthy inheritors of the language of Shakespeare , he has done so from somewhere , from a somewhere intimately known , and yet never entirely placed , from what might loosely be called Irishness . |
| 15 | A particularly tight swarm hummed around Mme Andre Malraux , widow of France 's first Minister of Culture , admiring a group of what could politely be called doodles by her late husband at prices between £100 and £800 . |
| 16 | These processes range from ( a ) active illustration ( still relatively simple ) to ( b ) kinds of active reinvention and exploratory discovery and , crucially , ( c ) tension , contradiction or what would elsewhere be called dissent . |
| 17 | In so doing , they inevitably rejected the idea of innate sexual difference , laying much greater emphasis on what would today be called patterns of socialisation . |
| 18 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 19 | Using what would now be called GIS skills , Openshaw ( 1980 ) examined over 13 000 1 km grid squares in the UK which intersect the coastline and related these to data from the 1971 Census ( which were made available for such grid squares ) . |
| 20 | What can properly be called art is still , in majority , an inherent and inseparable element of some other purpose . |
| 21 | But the assembling of separate tales to form some larger whole is a distinctive feature of medieval literature with a history of its own , apart from the history of what can properly be called compilationes . |
| 22 | It is clear that these larger groups or phyla have arisen because of what can only be called co-evolution : the changes to take place in their body types have been more or less continuously in tune with evolutionary changes in their habitat or environment . |