Example sentences of "[be] called a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the Laki eruption taken as a whole constitutes a splendid example of a fissure eruption , but along its twenty-five kilometre length dozens of small volcanic cones were built up , none of them very big , although each one , if considered separately , could be called a central vent volcano . |
| 2 | They applied what might be called a Morellian analysis , recording precisely the minute details of the ancient works , dividing statues into as many as 300 measurable parts , and entering the results into a database . |
| 3 | Rather than attempting to define the nature of the " humane education " thus envisaged , Leavis merely asserts that " It seems better simply to point to English literature , which is unquestionably and producibly " there " , and to suggest that the " literary tradition " that this unquestionable existence justifies us in speaking of might … be called a vague concept . " |
| 4 | There was a long silence — what I think might be called a pregnant pause . |
| 5 | Nor is it in itself what would ordinarily be called a mental process , say a process involving the Self or a process of which the person in question has a unique kind of direct awareness . |
| 6 | Any drill which requires changes in word order , whether optional or obligatory , which requires the addition or deletion of grammatical constituents such as not and which further exacts the alteration of grammatical pairs such as already and yet , can be called a transformational drill . |
| 7 | This might be called a constructive attack , since it implied that Morgenthau 's notion of a determining system might be strengthened by dropping the contentious and unprovable notion of human nature . |
| 8 | There is , of course , nothing new in the development of what might be called a farm-centred community , distinct and largely separated from the village , particularly in the pastoral and upland areas of England , where this kind of settlement pattern has traditionally been more common . |
| 9 | Originally bred as a draught animal , its milk has always been known for its quality ( if not quantity ) and it can fairly be called a dual-purpose breed . |
| 10 | Hurtling along the open track and through what might be called a blinding blizzard , the C.P.R. ‘ Special ’ carried Gladstone Murray and his party to Regina in just over an hour . |
| 11 | If the archetypal Tory of the 1979 intake was a rent-a-quote property dealer who backed Mrs Thatcher to the death and the death penalty to the hilt , Mr Heddle can be called a sad loss to the Two Nations Tendency . |
| 12 | The latter would be called a subjective budget and would list items in headings such as buildings , staff , rent , rates , capitation , in terms of the total spent in each category , rather than show how part of each category related to a particular programme . |
| 13 | HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance . |
| 14 | The dominant families of the other papers had what now would be called a low profile too . |
| 15 | A dog that gains a third prize is a dog that lacks quality and is not perfect in construction , but one that still can not be called a poor specimen . |
| 16 | used to be called a ragged school . |
| 17 | But it used to be called a ragged school . |
| 18 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 19 | Ivan Klima could be called a lyric author , and the notion of what it is to be such an author is examined in My First Loves , whose gentle and deliberate stories read as if they have been grown and stored before being made public . |
| 20 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 21 | But if this is to be called a rational method , it is so , from Stevenson 's point of view , mainly because it consists in letting one 's attitudes be moulded by rational factual beliefs . |
| 22 | Many of our decisions will have enduring practical implications of what could be called a moral sort . |
| 23 | ‘ That could hardly be called a conciliatory speech , ’ said Isambard delicately . |
| 24 | The norm which is " attained " by stylistic consistency in a text might be called a SECONDARY NORM , since it is established by deviance from the PRIMARY ( relative ) NORMS which determine our more general expectations of language . |
| 25 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 26 | Mr Beregovoy has been quoted as saying that he is not ashamed to be called a social democrat . |
| 27 | Hilton describes the story of man before the Fall as a time when reason was clear and bright , love directed only towards the goodness of God and man 's potential fulfilled as his soul " whilk may be called a made trinite was fulfilled in mynde and loue of vnmade blissed trinite whilk is oure lord " ( 43a.314. – 114 ) . |
| 28 | Identification of what might be called a transient problem , compared with , with a deep-seated long-term problem , is perhaps not always apparent . |
| 29 | When it was clear that Henry was outraged and in a mood for immediate retaliatory action , James decided on what in current jargon would be called a pre-emptive strike . |
| 30 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |