Example sentences of "[be] called [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a tall , bony old man , with a long melancholy face and little bushy whiskers — ‘ lamb cutlets , ’ thought Breeze , for they were too small to be called ordinary mutton chops . |
| 2 | ‘ Though it be not sense , as having nothing to do with external objects , yet it is very like it , and might properly enough be called internal sense ’ . |
| 3 | The problem is to distinguish this type of rejection of psychoanalytic propositions — the result of the feelings aroused in people by uncomfortable material — from what might be called genuine objections of a kind which are reasoned and scientific . |
| 4 | Their class origins , too , were rapidly fictionalised , but the notion of a sudden demotic invasion of polite letters can only be called extravagant . |
| 5 | Only the large , ground-living cassowaries from the Australasian rain forests possess anything that could be called avian armour , and even there it is confined solely to the head region . |
| 6 | This process may be called expanded negative reproduction . |
| 7 | This process may be called expanded negative reproduction . ’ |
| 8 | This view could be called cynical , but my experience leads me to believe that in most situations we are preoccupied with ourselves and our own agendas . |
| 9 | Whether it is or not , the poem can be called distinctive — distinctive both of Larkin and of Amis . |
| 10 | erm I wo n't go through too many of them , erm but Blue Boar Inn , for instance , had 21 extra people , had some of the King 's servants , some of the prince 's servants , they had two Scottish peers , and their servants , £ 21 extra people , in a big inn , there were 14 rooms , I think , that were , could be called living rooms , but never-the-less , I think it must have been pretty crowded . |
| 11 | Most of these demonstrators appeared to be intellectual , or at least what might be called middle class . |
| 12 | That pattern can also be called liberal , or bourgeois , civilization and it was most developed in the industrialized countries , least in the agrarian east and south . |
| 13 | Although supplementary facts should not , in general , be added to a problem , the case is different with what may be called omitted facts . |
| 14 | They are what can be called logical , conceptual , or formal relations rather than causal relations . |
| 15 | This common knowledge of shared experience and conventionally sanctioned reality can be called schematic knowledge : it is the knowledge which is acquired as a condition of entry into a particular culture or sub-culture . |
| 16 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
| 17 | Noticeable in the last decade or two in fiction , it is a reaction that could be called political . |
| 18 | Its two major parties scarcely deserve to be called political . |
| 19 | The Salvationists associated together ‘ for a purpose which can not be said to be otherwise than lawful and laudable , or at all events can not be called unlawful ’ . |
| 20 | unalterable conviction in favour of the adoption for our Palace of Administration of the revived national style — a style so characteristic of our own age it is beginning to be called Victorian — we protest against being obliged to tolerate an effete Palladian or mongrel Renaissance architecture to please those who wish to claim the merit of a breadth of view and of artistic sympathy by denying that they have any prejudices on the subject , one way or the other . |
| 21 | ‘ I used to be called Shorty all through school because I am so small . |
| 22 | And they certainly could n't be called poor , living in this house . |
| 23 | It 's not really lowland in south of England terms , but the area ca n't be called mountainous . |
| 24 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |
| 25 | For example , we could have a number of herds of cattle ; these herds would be called primary sampling units and the individual cattle are secondary sampling units . |
| 26 | At the same time the Island women showed greater signs of what might be called normal anxiety . |
| 27 | The tendency to have such causes and effects can be called emotive meaning , if one likes . |
| 28 | The immediate impact of the founding fathers of what came to be called revolutionary ‘ populism ’ was minimal . |
| 29 | She found herself praying , the only thing she did consistently as a physician that could ever be called unprofessional . |
| 30 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |