Example sentences of "we would [adv] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | The semantic aspect is what we would otherwise call its content , and the verbal aspect is Todorov 's term for the language in which the stories are told . |
| 2 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ We would only call off the strike if Mrs Falconer was given assurances that her job would be saved . ’ |
| 4 | We can explain that they come from an age when theology and the natural sciences were not divorced from one another , when God was held directly responsible for disasters we would now call ‘ natural ’ , and for which we would have scientific explanations to hand that did not mention God at all . |
| 5 | The rules were based on the principle of substitution using a common ‘ radical ’ ( we would now call it a parent ) to denote members of the same family . |
| 6 | But , since he was Professor ( or , as we would now call him , Principal ) at the Veterinary College for over 45 years , and Principal Army Veterinary Surgeon for nearly 43 years , and since in these positions he inevitably greatly influenced the development of our College and profession , an attempt at a balanced re-appraisal seems worthwhile . |
| 7 | Early workers concentrated on destroying the immature aquatic stages in their breeding places using what we would now call environmental management . |
| 8 | County cricket in its early days appealed to both middle and working classes , many of whom enjoyed what we would now call ‘ flexi-time ’ . |
| 9 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 10 | Even so , Baden-Powell 's intriguing romanticisation of what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ was not an uncommon response in these years . |
| 11 | But 12-year-old girls would certainly not have possessed the physical strength for such a form of attack , and although the rubric of ‘ garotting ’ was used universally to encompass these crimes , most of the cases reported in the newspapers seemed to describe fairly straightforward street robberies — sometimes using a variety of coshes , knuckle-dusters , ‘ Indian claw ’ devices and other forms of life-preserver — or what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ . |
| 12 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |
| 13 | Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness . |
| 14 | The first major privatization debate ( as we would now call it ) in this country took place in the first decade of this century . |
| 15 | Between these two pieces of legislation directed against " cottagers " and " paupers " — in other words against squatters — there occurred the most famous of what we would now call " ideologically-inspired " squats , that of Winstanley and the Diggers at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey in 1649 . |
| 16 | That is they would really be the beginnings of what we would now call travelogues . |
| 17 | To someone who holds the Cartesian view it must seem that only something we would hardly call ‘ perception ’ reflects the philosophical truth of the matter . |
| 18 | There were a man that used to come and they called him the gauger well we would likely call him the customs officer now . |