Example sentences of "of what [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | and thought of what she should do next , without this view , without the solace of a yearly grant , without the irreproachable ( or now , through custom , irreproachable ) excuse of study . |
| 6 | Her Finals were approaching , and she had no idea of what she should do next , and indeed did not dare to think about the future for she knew that it offered her little in the way of readily acceptable projects . |
| 7 | She had not the least idea of what she should do next , other than perhaps to fasten the strange garment about her waist . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 11 | How any reparation could be made , and talking about reparation , this business over absent fathers , er , has just killed that idea of us getting more and more in that kind of way , but I 'm sure there are many people , and I 'm not thinking about those who have been , committed an act of violence , and said , well they might do it again , but say , I 'm pretty sure people who have been committed in effect of what you could call civil crimes , that is putting their hand in the drawer , should never be in prison . |
| 12 | ‘ I ca n't say I know any of what you 'd call good people . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm always a little bit worried about them because it seems to me that they almost define the syllabus in terms of what you can ask four reasonable questions in terms of alternatives about . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The sunlight and cloud came and went , rode over and away on , just as possibilities of what he would do next did . |