Example sentences of "what 's [verb] a " in BNC.

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1 And this is what 's called a repayment er type profile .
2 Er the other thing of course , when you 're down here we can carry on treating you with what 's called a temporary resident .
3 We 're going to put you on what 's called a starter pack , now start this tomorrow night , okay ?
4 to flare up with exertion , i er and it has what 's called a diurnal rhythm so the body 's natural rhythms affect it .
5 we may have to do what 's called a glucose tolerance test .
6 However , just to complicate things at a very early level , it 's often observed that agricultural products have what 's called a perverse supply response , in that there 's a negative relationship between prices and output .
7 Now because I 'll leave that for a moment right , so one way we may test the structural change , right , is to construct what 's called a dummy variable and a dummy variables in a wide variety of applications they can be used to er get rid of er outlying observations , very very high or very very low observations .
8 That is effectively we 're paying this extra fifty pence right resource misallocation we there is always what 's called a dead weight loss right to intervention , right it 's an inefficiency loss or an efficiency loss , due to the fact that we 're asking t , in this case farmers , right to using , use resources but farmers are n't the most efficient people in resources but in to erm , high tech computer companies , alright and if we gave pounds worth of support to a high tech computer company they would be able to produce more value as a result of that pound er than if we gave one pound to a farmer , simply because erm that , sort of the high tech industries are more productive , they 're more efficient .
9 He sent in a a a er , what what 's called a nomination form .
10 That 's what 's called a relative computer .
11 But you also need them in your team , because if you 're trying to solve a problem that is difficult , or what 's called a messy problem , we 'll come back to nice messy problems in a minute , you need somebody to come up with some good ideas , some ways of solving it .
12 Erm what you apply for if if it goes to court is what 's called a residence order , and what you would probably know as access
13 What 's called a Norwegian list , w , quite why the Norwegians are blamed for this I do n't know , er , and the idea with a Norwegian list , is that you have , you put the problem on the left-hand side if you 're right-handed , and then you would brain-storm the solutions for that on the right-hand side .
14 You see I 'm what 's called a district manager .
15 Du n no people have said like that will last a really short time or a really long time , but what 's considered a short time I know what a long time is , a long time is like sort of four months three sort of four months onwards in n it for like people our age , what would a short time be they ?
16 What 's got a wooden door and flies ?
17 After that , I was put on a weekly wage of five shillings — a veritable fortune — four of which I kept locked in a tin box under Granpa 's bed until I had saved up my first guinea : a man what 's got a guinea got security , Mr Salmon once told me as he stood outside his shop , thumbs in his waistcoat pockets , displaying a shiny gold watch and chain .
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