Example sentences of "we might call the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We become insensitive to what we might call the ‘ once and might have been ’ of faith . |
| 2 | The pulse output from the timer IC1 pin 3 is fed to pin 14 of IC2 , a 4017B 5-stage decade ‘ twisted-ring ’ counter , then to the output pins of IC2 which are connected to a sequence of l.e.d.s ( D1 to D10 inclusive ) which we might call the ‘ Wicket Sequence ’ . |
| 3 | This we might call the instructional activity , with the teacher engaged as participant mediating the techniques concerned . |
| 4 | This we might call the experimental activity , with the teacher acting as observer manipulating the techniques concerned . |
| 5 | With respect to the lexical item bet , analysis reveals the descriptive fact that what we might call the canonical meaning of the word , ‘ to lay a wager ’ , is relatively rarely attested as compared with its very frequent informal occurrence as a modal marker indicating conviction as in expressions like ‘ I bet he 'll turn up tomorrow ’ , ‘ There 's no milk in the fridge , I bet ’ . |
| 6 | The first is what we might call the ‘ technical Pacific ’ — that immense body of water lying to the seaward of all the island arcs and groups within the Ocean 's obvious continental margins . |
| 7 | These are very very cheap discounted tickets er usually using what we might call the dodgier carriers of the world , not necessarily those which have got a bad safety records or crash records , but where the cuisine is n't quite as good on board , or you do n't get an inflight movie . |
| 8 | He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy . |
| 9 | To be validated a theory needs to pass a further test , which we might call the review test . |
| 10 | Then there was what we might call the backgrounder , the detective story in which interest lies as much in the setting as in the puzzle . |
| 11 | This is what we might call the Porter Scene in Macbeth technique . |
| 12 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 13 | On the one hand , there has been the approach which emphasizes the complexity of financial accounting and thus produces many user groups ( which we might call the differential approach ) ; alternatively , there has been the approach which emphasizes the commonalities and produces few user groups ( which we might call the integral approach ) . |
| 14 | But LMC also includes the per-period opportunity cost of the resources tied up in the capital stock , what we might call the capital charge c k , whose calculation we described above . |
| 15 | And it is attacking what we might call the Holy Trinity of development : health ; education ; and food . |
| 16 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |