Example sentences of "it [vb mod] to [be] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Bas said it ought to be called Chuck-up because it 's always being sick . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 |
| 4 | It used to be called Am Graben which is German for ‘ the moat ’ because that was where the medieval city walls ran . |
| 5 | They were , after all , Soviet citizens , who lived in the Soviet Union , not Russia or Kirghizia as it used to be called . |
| 6 | It used to be called the ‘ self-build movement ’ , and the wearing of beards and open-toed sandals was close to compulsory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It used to be called Austin-Morris but changed its name to British Leyland and then Rover . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The speaker had just returned from a ‘ little-known place , in Southern Africa — Lesotho , or ‘ Basutoland , as it used to be called ’ . |
| 15 | They used call the it used to be called the attic you see in them days . |
| 16 | They used to have er a a what you call a front room , and then we used to call it the kitchen and then the other place where you wash your pots and the sink in and everything in , it used to be called the scullery in them days . |
| 17 | But it used to be called a ragged school . |
| 18 | Well it used to be er one road used to be called Meadow Flats , and then you go a little way down another road and it used to be called the bottoms . |
| 19 | But it used to be called Broadmarsh . |
| 20 | And it used to be called 's N's lodging house . |
| 21 | And underneath this archway you used to have meat stalls and fish stalls and it used to be called the shambles . |
| 22 | Even those who seek to be integrated into the new culture ( or ‘ go native ’ as it used to be called ) will remain strangers in the new culture . |
| 23 | Er , it used to be called Joe , but he 's died and Woods have got it now . |
| 24 | This has been in use in the works office for some time , it was , it used to be called an aide-memoire . |
| 25 | It used to be called the Great Western railway , which was built in the 1830s under the guidance of the engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel . |
| 26 | OK , so it used to be called ‘ mother 's ruin' and it 's reputation among the more desperate of women as a way of sorting out an inconvenient pregnancy problem might hardly have endeared it to the more sober . |