Example sentences of "[Wh det] might [be] [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One has the impression that in the time that followed the war , compared with the pre-war period , there occurred a change which might be called a loosening of manners . |
2 | I can do this best by way of a personal anecdote , which might be called the Incident of the Taxman and the Philosopher . |
3 | A score can be computed which might be called the listener communication repair index . |
4 | But we approach that independent question using a different set of principles , among which might be found the principle just mentioned , that any member of the corporation who is entitled to share in its profits must share in its responsibilities as well . |
5 | Within his framework , pollution , which might be considered a cost imposed on society but not paid for by the company creating the pollution , results from a deficient system of property rights . |
6 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
7 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
8 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
9 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
10 | Yet here was express permission to do so ; what might be called a farter 's charter . |
11 | By setting his move in the Thirties , and by turning that ambiguously seductive decade into what might be called a laide époque , Visconti discovered a necessary , hitherto unremarked fact about movie nostalgia : that it functions best when directly linked either to the history of the cinema ( as in The Damned , Helmut Berger 's Dietrich impersonation ) or history in the cinema ( newsreel footage , for example ) . |
12 | The Court went on to say that , in the case before it , there was no need to decide whether and to what extent Article 6(1) required a decision on the very substance of the dispute — what might be called a right to a judgment . |
13 | And in Dworkin it is evident in his views that ‘ government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life … [ and ] political decisions must be , so far as possible , independent of any particular conception of the good life , or of what gives value to life ’ . |
14 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
15 | However , there is an important difference between what might be called the doctrine of empiricism , and scientific theory , which must be empirical in the sense that statements can be deduced from theory which are about particular events and which can be checked by observation . |
16 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
17 | Romantic suspense is what might be called the literature of the night side of human experience . |
18 | As will be considered further , it is not at all clear , however , that the newly formulated offence entirely cures what might be called the policeman defect . |
19 | Evaluation , then , is the process of specifying what might be called the transfer value of ideas . |
20 | On the body of the car , on each side of the door and on what might be called the architrave , are two handles . |
21 | when he or she is expected to adhere to general rules of conduct , what might be called the family 's ‘ standing orders ’ . |
22 | I have in mind two especially : the first involves what might be called the impossibility of desire , the second the notion of desire and/or identity as involving an ineluctable splitting . |
23 | The concerns of what might be called the research and development agencies in the NHS , such as the Nuffield Foundation and the Kings Fund , also provided a stimulus for change . |
24 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |
25 | The second type of witchcraft is what might be termed the Guardian newspaper class . |
26 | In short , the MDC has presided over some successes , but not over what might be termed the regeneration of Liverpool 's docks . |
27 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
28 | A shift in emphasis back to the rural areas was manifested by what might be termed an urbanization of the countryside . |