Example sentences of "[pron] you might call [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 2 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 3 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 4 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's notion that Sun Microsystems Inc has set up a hush-hush research unit to investigate HyperSparc ( UX No 410 ) , is what you might call a tad overstated . |
| 5 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | First , what you might call a local bye-law ; a rule for this particular sort of book . |
| 8 | Who demonstrated what you might call a profound lack of interest . |
| 9 | Father was what you might call a rake . |
| 10 | They 're what you might call a very catholic collection : flagellation , paedophilia , coprophilia ( sorry , I forget you 're not an aficionado — the sexual dimension of shit — J. Joyce had leanings that way ) , along with the usual nuns-and-donkeys sort of stuff . |
| 11 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 14 | Hardly what you might call an international banking centre . |
| 15 | Bob , at eighty , is what you might call an enthusiast . |
| 16 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 17 | They seem to run the gamut from what you might call the ‘ tabloid television ’ of Top of the Pops and The Hit Man and Her , via the ‘ serious ’ ‘ quality ’ programmes like Rock Steady or Big World Café , to the more lefty ‘ alternative ’ programmes , of which The Tube was the prototype , like Channel 4 's Club X . |
| 18 | W. R. Parzynski and P. W. Zipse 's Introduction to Mathematical Analysis makes a better job than most , and it does it all in the right order , from special to general , what you might call the Reverse Bourbaki Gambit . |
| 19 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |
| 20 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 21 | He says now he 's got the — ca n't remember the word , begins with a P , it 's what you might call the stake money — the people he works for in the Agatean Empire will pay up . |
| 22 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
| 23 | One of the things I 'm arguing really is what you might call the ultimate goodness , you see the thing goodness I just define as what goes up when you decide things are getting better and what goes down when things are getting worse . |