Example sentences of "what [pers pn] might call " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was what I might call her physical candour . |
| 2 | Chairman I think this is probably the first time in this council chamber in twenty years that er I will probably have spoken on er social services issues er and I speak from an entirely private capacity and any information that er that comes my way is from what I might call informed members of the public erm , people who I come into contact with and from my own experiences as a ward councillor and from as we all do from time to time , my own family experience , my own domestic experiences and I do know something about the problems which are associated with the the care of elderly people er although I do n't have that problem now erm things have taken their course . |
| 3 | Do you believe in what I might call national characteristics ? |
| 4 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 5 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 6 | It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience . |
| 7 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 8 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 9 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 10 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 11 | There were only four fights , proper fights , that is , one house burned — and that was an accident that Ewan apologised for most handsomely next day — nobody killed , and just six men what you might call damaged . |
| 12 | They seem to run the gamut from what you might call the ‘ tabloid television ’ of Top of the Pops and The Hit Man and Her , via the ‘ serious ’ ‘ quality ’ programmes like Rock Steady or Big World Café , to the more lefty ‘ alternative ’ programmes , of which The Tube was the prototype , like Channel 4 's Club X . |
| 13 | K. M. Bribes were n't what you might call rife . |
| 14 | W. R. Parzynski and P. W. Zipse 's Introduction to Mathematical Analysis makes a better job than most , and it does it all in the right order , from special to general , what you might call the Reverse Bourbaki Gambit . |
| 15 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 16 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
| 17 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 19 | Hardly what you might call an international banking centre . |
| 20 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 21 | Very rapidly Modigliani fell victim to what you might call ‘ the myth of bohemia ’ , from which he never emerged . |
| 22 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 23 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's notion that Sun Microsystems Inc has set up a hush-hush research unit to investigate HyperSparc ( UX No 410 ) , is what you might call a tad overstated . |
| 24 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 25 | They have fairly regularly staged , what you might call bigger bands who play the university circuit as such and they 're always , you know , dying for people to come along so there 'll , th there 'll be lists published at what time , what events are on at these places if you wan na go and do that and if you wan na go to the top notch bands , Birmingham 's a good venue for that with the Leisure Centre , the M I A the N E C , the K G B etcetera etcetera all that stuff there so there 's always plenty to do , do n't , do n't feel restricted just cos we 're in er the middle of the city centre in this college and there does n't seem a lot to do , there 's a lot going on . |
| 26 | We 've never been what you might call close , me and your nan . |
| 27 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 28 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 29 | First , what you might call a local bye-law ; a rule for this particular sort of book . |
| 30 | It was what you might call convenient — for both of us . ’ |