Example sentences of "[prep] what you [modal v] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 2 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 3 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 4 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't say I know any of what you 'd call good people . ’ |
| 6 | in , in what you might call hot water |
| 7 | In what you might call quiet years . |
| 8 | You take Shallot 's advice on this : the power of witchcraft lies in what you can make other people think . |
| 9 | It 's all nonsense , paying for what you can get free . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |