Example sentences of "what might [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in Dworkin it is evident in his views that ‘ government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life … [ and ] political decisions must be , so far as possible , independent of any particular conception of the good life , or of what gives value to life ’ . |
| 2 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 3 | However , there is an important difference between what might be called the doctrine of empiricism , and scientific theory , which must be empirical in the sense that statements can be deduced from theory which are about particular events and which can be checked by observation . |
| 4 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 5 | Romantic suspense is what might be called the literature of the night side of human experience . |
| 6 | As will be considered further , it is not at all clear , however , that the newly formulated offence entirely cures what might be called the policeman defect . |
| 7 | Evaluation , then , is the process of specifying what might be called the transfer value of ideas . |
| 8 | On the body of the car , on each side of the door and on what might be called the architrave , are two handles . |
| 9 | when he or she is expected to adhere to general rules of conduct , what might be called the family 's ‘ standing orders ’ . |
| 10 | I have in mind two especially : the first involves what might be called the impossibility of desire , the second the notion of desire and/or identity as involving an ineluctable splitting . |
| 11 | The concerns of what might be called the research and development agencies in the NHS , such as the Nuffield Foundation and the Kings Fund , also provided a stimulus for change . |
| 12 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |
| 13 | The second type of witchcraft is what might be termed the Guardian newspaper class . |
| 14 | In short , the MDC has presided over some successes , but not over what might be termed the regeneration of Liverpool 's docks . |
| 15 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |