Example sentences of "[pron] might call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’ |
| 3 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 4 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 5 | Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’ |
| 6 | are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country . |
| 7 | I think that you might call Duff Hart-Davis a travel writer too , at least by osmosis , since his godfather was if I remember rightly Peter Fleming , who might well have had a stern word or two to say about Mrs Izzard 's book . |
| 8 | The Sea is a sort of mythological enemy , and I make what you might call sacrifices to it in my soul , fearing it a little , respecting it as you 're supposed to , but in many ways treating it as an equal . |
| 9 | ‘ We have what you might call circles of evidence . |
| 10 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 11 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 12 | Cabezón wrote such versos or versillos and it has been suggested that he was stimulated by the example of Arnolt Schlick ( see p.184 ) who also composed what one might call suites of versets , notably those on ‘ Da pacem Domine ’ in the first part of his Tabulaturen ( 1512 ) , without the choral alternation . |
| 13 | What strikes one about the names of the " few friends " is that there are so few of what one might call Islay family names . |
| 14 | in a sense that one might call women of the generation before yours mother , I 'm not sure . |
| 15 | What he tends to ignore , however , is what one might call value charged definitions which do not function as persuasive devices for modifying attitudes but serve simply to formulate , and perhaps endorse , combinations of descriptive and valuational meaning in ordinary usage which reflect widely shared attitudes . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , we take a functional definition , perhaps like the one that Durkheim offers us , then we might call ideologies such as Marxism or Nationalism religions . |
| 17 | To have the best chance of preventing the more serious family and child care problems , what we might call child abuse , the best chance of success is to improve and develop universal , non-stigmatizing services which are integrated into the mainstream of social provision for all children . |
| 18 | They reproduce what we might call Harding 's ‘ Spanish village syndrome ’ or Carol Gilligan 's ‘ different voice ’ , constructing women to function best in the private domain and men in the public one . |
| 19 | Modern research has shown that the innate factors at work seem largely to affect what we might call ego-development . |
| 20 | That is what we might call suppression . |
| 21 | But an exception was William Swainson , an outstandingly talented zoological illustrator , who took what we might call ideas typical or representative of his time further than most contemporaries were willing to do . |
| 22 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 23 | As we have seen previously , Bukharin distinguished between arithmetical sums and what he called ‘ real aggregates ’ , or perhaps what we might call totalities . |
| 24 | And er , one way to , to get people to stay on the land is to introduce some sort of , what we might call market disciplines , if that was n't such a dirty word , er , into the government , the government sector where there are clear inefficiencies . |
| 25 | Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification . |
| 26 | In a city-centre bar , the four members of Eugenius are convening for what they might call work . |