Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pron] could call " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked through the viewer I had the feeling , momentarily , that it really was what I had dreamed about for so long , a sort of crystal ball in which I could call up everything I had ever known . |
| 2 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 3 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 4 | There was n't any chance really , well there was nothing which we could call there was no encouragement for girls to achieve anything academically or really encouragement for them to do anything much with their lives after they left school , aside from in the home , except for perhaps being domestic servants , something like that , which is after all the category of employment which absorbed most women until quite late on . |
| 5 | Linnet had attended the wedding , of course , looking exquisite in dove-grey velvet with a swansdown hat and muff , her face calm and remote , betraying not the least flicker of anything which anyone could call unbecoming , even when she saw the bride , thin as a stick and hideously sallow , led to the altar dripping pearls and diamonds and a London-made gown with a train half a cathedral-aisle long . |
| 6 | Whether it was the unsavoury reputation of the government of Lloyd George ; or whether it was the division in the party between the followers of Lloyd George and the followers of Asquith ; or whether it was the aftermath of universal suffrage and the desire of the working man for a party which he could call his own — it now looked certain that the party division of the country would no longer lie between Liberal and Conservative but in a wider gulf between Conservative and Labour , with the Liberal Party on the sideline . |
| 7 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 8 | The Smiths were prime movers in what you could call the depoliticization of personal life , after punk 's initial demystification . |
| 9 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 10 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 11 | Masklin crept back through the grass to the nomes ' camp , if that 's what you could call a tiny dry space under a scrap of thrown-away plastic . |
| 12 | ‘ The Swiss railway timetable is a masterpiece of typographical design , if not what you could call a rattling good read . |
| 13 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 14 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |
| 15 | So capitalism has to export it over its boundary and that 's one of the company , what you could call it period , for example , erm |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 18 | ‘ When I was fifteen , I had what we could call today a nervous breakdown . |
| 19 | ( However , throughout this discussion I have ignored those psychosomatic disorders which might be the consequence of what we could call ‘ somatic externalization ’ . |
| 20 | that 's what we could call her |
| 21 | Andy Medhurst locates as ‘ the central visual themes of the 1950s male pin-up in Britain what one could call the hegemony of the tweed jacket or the ideology of gentrification ’ . |