Example sentences of "[adj] [be] called " in BNC.
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| 1 | People who do that are called Small-Endians . |
| 2 | In addition , some of the carbon available to an organism may come from a source that is not in equilibrium with the atmosphere ; the problems caused by this are called the ‘ reservoir effects ’ . |
| 3 | Symptoms like this are called strange , rare and peculiar , and are often of prime importance in finding the remedy or group of remedies from which to make one 's selection . |
| 4 | Under fourteen-two hand high are called ponies A hand is a measurement used for measuring horses height and each hand is four . |
| 5 | Some are called to leave everything and follow , regardless of cost . |
| 6 | Some are called mad , disturbed , maladjusted , rebellious , even criminal ; others are called individualists , poets , comedians , philosophers . |
| 7 | Some are called Wine Shops , others Drink Stores apparently depending upon the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | K 1 and K 2 are called the principal curvatures of the surface at O. Their product is an invariant for the surface at O called the Gaussian curvature K ; thus |
| 9 | Certain sexual activities or drug-using activities that are able to transmit HIV from one person to another are called ‘ high risk activities ’ . |
| 10 | Can this be called an advance ? |
| 11 | How can this be called " translation " ? |
| 12 | Darwinism post-Fisher is called neo-Darwinism . |
| 13 | Sometimes this is called aerobic exercise , and cycling is an excellent form of aerobics . |
| 14 | Sometimes the IUD comes out this is called expulsion . |
| 15 | Though this is called a joint , the sacroiliac is n't really capable of much movement , and when pressure is repeatedly applied the joint surfaces become inflamed . |
| 16 | Work out the amount that the Government says you need to live on , ( this is called your applicable amount ) . |
| 17 | This is called your ‘ applicable amount ’ and depends on your age and whether you are disabled or not . |
| 18 | This is called the Lisson Grove package . |
| 19 | This is called Erdinger Stiftungs ( the second word means foundation ) . |
| 20 | This is called reactive armour . |
| 21 | An appeal can also be made if the council takes more than eight weeks to come to a decision — this is called an appeal against non-determination . |
| 22 | This is called Statutory Sick Pay ( SSP ) . |
| 23 | This is called niche marketing which is a familiar concept in all forms of retailing . |
| 24 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 25 | It is the way that our feelings tell us that they have got too much to cope with at the same time and they need some help — in the jargon this is called needing some ‘ ventilation ’ . |
| 26 | Effecting an entry , this is called , and a job for Slim Jim , the flexible steel ruler owned by every mechanic and car thief , which , shoved down the side of the driver 's door glass , will open anything from a Jeep to a Jaguar . |
| 27 | This is called a shadow cone . |
| 28 | This is called a data-bank system and a good example is the pupil record system which is kept in a secretary 's office . |
| 29 | When two or more creatures that are unrelated all evolve similar ways of coping with a particular circumstance , this is called convergent evolution . |
| 30 | This is called a scientific novelty . |