Example sentences of "[be] [Wh det] [pron] [vb base] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frithrah , you 're what I call a Chief Rabbit ! " |
| 2 | For this reason , it will be what I call an information-based organization . |
| 3 | And that is that in the projections of housing requirements for the City of York , not Greater York but the City of York , the County Council have a figure of four thousand four hundred households extra , but propose a provision of only three thousand three hundred dwellings extra , that 's purely within York , and the question really therefore for the County Council is I had thought that their dwelling requirements , that their , sorry their their policy H One figure for York was what they thought the requirements were , but maybe it 's what they think the limited capacity is , and they are foreseeing an overspill of thousand odd from the city of York into Greater York . |
| 4 | That 's what they call er , la that 's what they call a Scotch circuit that lasts five weeks , four weeks . |
| 5 | " Yeh , that 's what they call the dental officer in there . " |
| 6 | That 's what they call the high and low value of the stock in a stock swap such as this . |
| 7 | It 's a decimal system , it 's what we call a decimal system , decimals . |
| 8 | That 's what we call a little chick erm and it comes from in China and do n't feel him too tight ; just feel how warm he is , do you see , is n't he lovely ? |
| 9 | Then there 's what we call the long tour , which has got seven characters from the house 's history on it . |
| 10 | " I tell you , he 's what I call a Chief Rabbit . |
| 11 | Now that 's what I call a good funeral |
| 12 | Pakeezah thanked her : ‘ Now that 's what I call a nice cup of tea , ’ she said . |
| 13 | And that 's what I call a real bargain : something that 's an improvement and saves you money . |
| 14 | ‘ Now that 's what I call a real bird's-eye view ! ’ she exclaimed as she landed , beaming with delight . |
| 15 | Always joking about rats : that 's what I call a weird sense of humour . |
| 16 | Oops , that 's what I call an honourary delight this is |
| 17 | That 's what I call an idle woman ! |
| 18 | So here 's what you tell the Financial Director : Firstly , the new Saab is a four door , five-seater , family saloon . |
| 19 | Well French polishing is what they term the original polishing of furniture . |
| 20 | ‘ If this is what they call a good camp , think how the other poor bastards are suffering ’ |
| 21 | exercise that you do in terms of assertion in terms of helping build people 's assertion is what we call a broken record exercise , okay where one person wants something and the other person is trying to change their minds , okay , you get it in conversation when people do n't take you seriously and you 've asked for something and they do n't take you serious they try and avoid the point , they try and change the subject . |
| 22 | The middle of the road , third party fire and theft , is what we call the increasing benefit plan . |
| 23 | I am not , after all , ’ she said , looking around her domain with a distinct smile , ‘ running a house of ill repute , which is what I fear the present title of Madame seems to suggest , along with bead curtains , red velvet plush love seats , champagne buckets and other such fittings and accoutrements which are not our style at all these days . |
| 24 | So this is what I call a pessimistic er , view of human nature , this Hobbesian one . |
| 25 | And she had one or two hires including higher art and then somebody said oh that would be good for the P R department is looking for staff so she now is doing a superb job running a marketing operation , editing an internal newspaper it all herself and erm all of that I taught her , now I want to move her on to the stage where she can get professional recognition for this , now that is what I call an absolute beginner |
| 26 | This was , this is what I call an optimistic view , and this was Rousseau 's view of human nature , that basically people were good , and er , cooperative , and it was the bad things in human nature that had to be explained , not the good . |
| 27 | Is what you do the vital issue ( Hinduism , Islam , Buddhism ) ? |
| 28 | This is what you call a Cosmic Mystery . |
| 29 | Er that is what you call the black economy yeah ? |
| 30 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |