Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] [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 | What I 'll erm , what I 'll do next week on this is a rather problematic topic this one erm it 's in the general section . |
5 | What I 'll do next week erm we 'll perhaps through concentrating on France we 'll do a quick gallop through Europe eighteen erm about eighteen fifteen to forty eight . |
6 | What I 'll do this morning is just give a general introduction to supply response , erm , and then er , on Friday , we 'll start to develop erm , theoretical models of agricultural supply and response called a Nirdel supply and response model . |
7 | And I 'm surprised erm there there is no what I would quote traditional sales er experience . |
8 | What I would see this policy as doing would be simply to bring an element of restraint er which er would be formulated in way in which it would within the local plans so that tight boundaries would be drawn around settlements , the rest of the land would be designated as under this policy as E two land and the debate as to whether the extent of that land was necessary or not would be negated because it would be subsumed as being there simply er meeting the strategic policy . |
9 | And we know there are various er responses to that question , and I would be looking to the districts to say whether or not they could cope with the various levels of provision that have been identified for Greater York , and it 's the view of whether they can cope within their own districts , I have n't said how you can cope , I said whether you can cope , you might I will I will leave you free to make the odd comment , but I want to focus on that part of the issue , and then the natural corollary to that is , will it be necessary , or is it considered necessary in the context of this alteration to provide specific guidance within H One policy for the distribution of that er development to er at sub , what I would call sub-district level , in other words do you want a specific entry for say Ryedale or Hambledon ? |
10 | I will discount those timeshare marketing there 's four months in that erm with two companies would n't count in terms of what I would call overall experience . |
11 | In 1982 , Rudi Fuchs came up with an accurate analysis of the new avant-garde movements in painting , and in 1987 Manfred Schneckenburger drew our attention to what I would call sociological considerations : art and culture , art and design , and so on . |
12 | All these ideas are for what I would call BIG presents . |
13 | If I can tell you that some of the the erm what I would call direct sales people have said they think they can sell advertising and are now in another direction or still resting |
14 | At first glance there appears to be a preponderance of narrow gauge or what I would call miniature railways . |
15 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
16 | Er whereas the County Council have sought to re to er keep vacancies constant , we have said that it is reasonable to seek to plan to keep second homes etcetera as a constant number but what I would term normal vacancies , can be reasonably be expected to go up to maintain the same proportion . |
17 | This , then , was the situation on what I shall call that Friday , early in the northern summer of 1984 . |
18 | She would typify what I 'd hope all students would be . |
19 | Erm , what I 'd like both groups to do is , first of all think of words and phrases you 'd use to describe that person 's performance in a formal scenario , I E in the appraisal , in an interview situation . |
20 | ‘ What I must do next season is get really , really fit and prove everybody wrong , which I have done about a thousand times . ’ |
21 | ‘ From what I can remember this lunatic just accelerated out from the side of the road . |
22 | I will start by drawing a distinction between what I will call social science history and hermeneutic history . |
23 | He said : ‘ I showed what I could do last year , given half a chance . |
24 | For several sleepless nights , Charity had been engaged in what she would call tiny wrestling with herself . |
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 | 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 . |
27 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
28 | in , in what you might call hot water |
29 | 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 . |
30 | 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 . |