Example sentences of "be called [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because if you read the paper we 're called the dirty man of Europe . |
| 2 | But why is it that we 're called the dirty man of Europe ? |
| 3 | Erm , they 're called the unorganised manager , erm , and the one , there are in fact four in the series , but we only see two of them . |
| 4 | For this reason the theory has been called a subjective theory of atonement because it insists that the cross changes us , not God ; that he is always forgiving . |
| 5 | She had been called a despicable woman , a scarlet creature , a hussy , a jessy , and on the occasions when her father had taken drink , much worse . |
| 6 | Maidstone 's face displayed what could almost have been called a mischievous grin . |
| 7 | Since then Milton Keynes has been called a brilliant success , and a place with no heart or soul . |
| 8 | ‘ Making Their Mark ’ could equally well have been called a mixed exhibition ; but this is a term more often used for a show put on by an exhibiting society , that type of artists ' organisation whose importance in Europe was created by the middle classes , who sought in the eighteenth century to buy pictures rather than give commissions , as aristocratic patrons had been accustomed to do . |
| 9 | Such a payment has often been called a voluntary payment . |
| 10 | Occasionally however more personal comments creep in such as in his 1814 publication , A Description of Sixty Small Prints where on page 17 he wrote ‘ Skiddaw has been called a generous Lord , and the Fells of Borrowdale frowning and haughty Tyrants . |
| 11 | He had been married to my mother for fifteen years and had been called a bad husband , whereas she had been what is known as a good wife . |
| 12 | His invention was one of the main forces that accelerated industrial development into what has been called the Industrial Revolution . |
| 13 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 14 | A clear example of the degree of common ground is what has been called the Golden Rule in the different religions . |
| 15 | Another reason for a rethink is what has been called the European dimension . |
| 16 | The United Nations General Assembly has been called the nearest thing to a world parliament . |
| 17 | Overall , these studies mark the emergence of what has been called the Georgian style , which employs bilateral symmetry , the individualization of personal space and property , and the specification of discrete elements reunited in a cohesive unity . |
| 18 | I , for one , have been called the dumbest person in Britain . |
| 19 | They act to reproduce what has been called the mass culture critique ( which may come equally from the political right or left , see Hebdige 1981a ) , in which the objects of mass consumption today are treated as so tainted , superficial and trite that they could not possibly be worth investigating . |
| 20 | The holistic statements in terms of institutional racism ( A ) and white power ( C ) articulate what has been called the dominant ideology thesis in the social sciences . |
| 21 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 22 | This has been called the accentual function of intonation . |
| 23 | The increasing role of the greenhouse effect in this transition has been called the runaway greenhouse effect . |
| 24 | Several grand viziers entered the Sultan 's service via the devşirme , including Ibrahim , the Greek who served Suleiman the Magnificent from 1523 to 1536 ; the Macedonian Koçu Bey , adviser to Murad IV in the seventeenth century , who has been called the Turkish Montesquieu ; and Mehmed Sokolović ( Sokollu ) , the Bosnian who held the post from 1564 to 1579 , serving Suleiman , Selim II and Murad III . |
| 25 | The frequency of this rhythmic activity is determined by a group of cells on the greater curvature which have been called the gastric pacemaker . |
| 26 | Chunnel cynics think the high profile of the rabies defences is meant to draw attention away from the real hazards of what 's been called the longest crematorium in the world |
| 27 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 28 | Increased differentiation based on this mechanism has been called the acquired distinctiveness of cues . |
| 29 | This has been called the grammatical function of intonation . |
| 30 | IT HAS been called the victimless crime . |