Example sentences of "what [pron] might [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Who knows what I might do one day ! ’ |
| 2 | Do you believe in what I might call national characteristics ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Today 's lecture is on erm what you might call female interest in sex and in particular in in the concept of erm female choice and I was struck er this morning by looking at Nature . |
| 6 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
| 7 | in , in what you might call hot water |
| 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 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 10 | In what you might call quiet years . |
| 11 | I 'm quite keen to make a distinction between what you might call victimless crimes and crimes with victims , and that it is , it seems to me , we want to move away from an older pattern in which the university had its ideas of how people should behave and tried to make them conform to those ideas , towards a much more complaint activated system of response , so that it 's the kind of behaviour find objectionable that the authorities may get drawn into looking at . |
| 12 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 13 | What people said , the things that happened , what we might do next Saturday night — that kind of thing . |
| 14 | One would tend to put these down to human error — annoying and misleading — in most cases ; what we might call sloppy work . |
| 15 | Each language has what we might call general preferences for certain patterns of reference as well as specific preferences that are sensitive to text type . |
| 16 | A particular sort of slavery , what we might call moral slavery , occurs if a person is forced to act according to someone else 's moral values . |
| 17 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 18 | Many of the champions were suffering from what we might call post-championship blues . |
| 19 | Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts . |
| 20 | meeting with the Education Department and Senior English Inspector once a year to account ( financially ) for what we are doing and to try to bargain for what we might get next year … |
| 21 | One direction which interests me is the development of what one might call cognitive archaeology , if that is not too grandiose a term : using the material evidence from the past to allow us to begin to say something useful about the way peoples thought , the way they used communication systems , the way they used symbols . |
| 22 | Mr Charsley 's prose owes a lot to the Open University — what one might call bearded functionality or poly-correct . |
| 23 | Until the mid-1970s , what one might call public sector professional accounting practice had been promulgated by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy ( which from 1901 — 1973 was known as the Institute of Municipal Treasurers and Accountants ) . |
| 24 | In those of the 1640S he follows , though with less psychological insight and power of characterization , the way pointed by Monteverdi away from the ceremonial princely opera toward what one might call dramatic solo opera for the larger public : drama expressed mostly in expressive recitative monologue and lively recitative dialogue , with the brief ‘ arias ’ usually left to the minor characters . |
| 25 | Ours is not a kissing family — that is , what one might call social kissing ; but there was one person I always kissed , my husband 's Aunt Nesta . |
| 26 | Where poetry involved the distinction between ordinary and poetic language , and narrative that between what one might call literary form and its non-literary content , literary history as conceived by the Formalists entails a distinction between automatized and perceptible form within literature itself . |