Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that year Thein Pe told Force 136 that there were many ‘ sympathisers ’ and even some activists ; he added ‘ Thakin Nu is what I may call an active sympathiser . |
| 2 | Paltry compared with Asimov 's " haemoglobin number " , but still what I would call a large number . |
| 3 | What I would call a realistic social thinker , namely , somebody who saw there is good and bad in human nature . |
| 4 | But he did recognize that there was strong pro-social currents in the , in the ego , and the resulting view , I think , is what I would call a realistic view of human nature . |
| 5 | And and I think that 's why this particular policy is very important to the Selby district because it allows us to address the balance between meeting what I would call the justifiable development but also the equally important environmental consideration . |
| 6 | What I would call the little man . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's what I would call an ecological holocaust , ’ said the leader of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II . |
| 8 | Th this criterion I think is what I would call an operational criteria , erm it defines effectively what 's going into the new settlement . |
| 9 | Six months or so of this produced not only a degree of understandable tedium -even the most terrifying things can become boring if lived with long enough — but what I would call an inverse effect . |
| 10 | Erm it 's very much what I would term a fifty fifty case . |
| 11 | Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song . |
| 12 | For instance Balibar ( 1970 , p. 214 ) writes that the ‘ double function ’ of the capitalist ( at once exploiter of labour power and organiser of production ) ‘ is an index of what I shall call the double nature of the division of labour in production ( the ‘ technical ’ division of labour and the ‘ social ’ division of labour ) . ’ |
| 13 | The transnational eorporation ( TNC ) is the major locus of transnational economic practices ; what I shall term the transnational capitalist class is the major locus of transnational politieal practices ; and the major locus of transnational cultural-ideological practices is to be found in the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 14 | By taking elements from the two and learning how to play them live together , it 's what I 'd call a real fusion . ’ |
| 15 | You say that these books stand in their own right , and are important perhaps in the historical context of the development of the novel , but do they constitute what I 'd call a good read ? |
| 16 | Well from what I can gather the cheaper one on Fishergate is a bus stop size one . |
| 17 | Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services . |
| 18 | I will do what I can to publicize the true position . |
| 19 | I tell you what I will buy the minimum amount of drink , i.e. a twenty four pack and some wine , and do the mulled wine and everybody else can bring a bottle or some food . |
| 20 | If what I will call the hypothetical cost test is adopted it will come very close to a market value test . |
| 21 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 22 | She untied the shoelace and did what she could to tame the unruly curls , then took off her red scarf and used it to tie her hair back firmly at the nape of her neck . |
| 23 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 24 | In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling . |
| 25 | First , what you might call a local bye-law ; a rule for this particular sort of book . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Who demonstrated what you might call a profound lack of interest . |
| 28 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 29 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 30 | Hardly what you might call an international banking centre . |