Example sentences of "we might call a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 2 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 3 | Similarly , what we might call a ‘ social accident ’ , can result in radical alterations of relations within society . |
| 4 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 5 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 6 | You could say , that er , a Hobbesian view of human nature , that people are basically anti-social egoistic and er , aggressive , and that if left to themselves , life would be a war , war against all , is what we might call a pessimistic view of human nature . |
| 7 | The problem is that although the beliefs and feelings are " always concerned with matters at the heart and root of existence " — which does suggest or give opportunity for something which is not just subjective in interpretation — it tends to subsume the religious view of life under what we might call a humanist umbrella . |
| 8 | When a weak-form word is being contrasted with another word , e.g. : ‘ The letter 's from him , not to him ’ A similar case is what we might call a co-ordinated use of prepositions : ‘ I travel to and from London a lot ’ ‘ A work of and about literature ’ |