Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] [vb base] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 2 | With a dominance and bodily expression also suggested in illus.1 , Rey is thus known to have exercised , with lasting success , many musical functions of what we call a ‘ conductor ’ |
| 3 | We 're on the edge of what we call a no go area , if we try to sail any closer to the wind the boat will come upright , the sail will flap and we 'll slow down and stop and so the best we can make either side of the no go area is known as a beat . |
| 4 | Both of them have workshops at the Abbey and are members of what they call a spiritual community there . |
| 5 | The December meeting consisted of what I call a ‘ pub quiz ’ , since it is a popular event in many pubs . |
| 6 | That 's right yes , yeah that bit that was just like what they call a swan neck , just like the swan and that was like that and so it kept me at load level , they were built by and some of the best cranes I 've ever known on the dock . |
| 7 | He and the others say they 'll fight on against what they call a crime against humanity : |
| 8 | Meanwhile the campaigners say their protest against what they call a refugee prison will go on . |
| 9 | So that I married into what you call a railway family . |
| 10 | ‘ Black people in America and internationally within the last 500 years have been put under what I call a policed state , ’ comments Singleton . |
| 11 | But before they do , perhaps I can say the most important thing , which is that the charges that we 're introducing are going to be underpinned with what we call a waiver scheme . |
| 12 | One of the most pedantic of the sub-editors was saying : ‘ You 're all looking for somebody with what you call a reason , but his thinking will be at variance with yours . ’ |
| 13 | As I have tried to show , ‘ neutral ’ language does not do this routinely ; however ‘ fair ’ or ‘ accurate ’ it may be , it therefore fails in what I consider a crucial political task . |
| 14 | The second thing we 're doing is we 've we are going to attract a lot of money from what we call a specific grant for mentally ill . |
| 15 | Hunt supporter Barbara Rich says saboteurs are a dirty , smelly bunch , but they go to great lengths to object to what they consider a barbaric ‘ sport ’ . |
| 16 | I have corrected the final marking to what I consider a more just assessment and have spoken to the senior biologist about the personnel management in his department . |
| 17 | Almost all British analyses use a unit similar or identical to what I call a tone-unit , and many writers see this unit as having a crucial role in linking intonation to higher-level grammatical units . |
| 18 | That is , behind the overt behaviours is a ‘ real ’ person , the central influence on what we call a person 's personality . |
| 19 | So I 'm working on what we call a rolling week . |
| 20 | And we want to know about what you want a new ad . |
| 21 | But er the these production investment activities are associated really with production engineering , er very closely aligned with development and erm unless you can do those between now and the end of nineteen ninety five , when we start the P I phase in nineteen ninety six before you can really make any progress you would then have to do a further year and a half of production engineering so in the new quotations Eurofighter are making a case for what they term a development assurance phase , some advance production engineering work starting later this year and going on until the end of ninety five but when we start P I in ninety six , we can start with a bang and make fast progress . |
| 22 | Oh I 'm , I 'm not sure , it 's , it 's a few hundred pounds a year and I , I , I 'm really guessing it 's a few hundred pounds a year for what they call a retaining fee , for being firemen , and then it 's a few pounds every time they attend , and a lesser amount every time for an , a greater amount every time they go out on the fire engine , but it 's nothing er nothing exceptionally high , it 's , it 's very reasonable when you think they 've got other jobs to do |
| 23 | For our analysis , however , we need to be able to differentiate between what we call a village and those places which are hamlets . |
| 24 | Yes they can erm , distinguish between what I call a do-it-yourself alarms and th the recognized companies . |
| 25 | Looking at what we call a brain or fist , |