Example sentences of "[be] what you [modal v] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It would n't be what you might think of as being on metre , and so you really had to listen and be real careful , because John Lee was gon na play his stuff and you better fit into it because he was n't gon na fit in with you ! |
| 3 | That 's a stro that would be what you would call a stroke saver . |
| 4 | ‘ … and the moral of that [ said the Duchess ] is — ‘ Be what you would seem to be ’ — or , if you 'd like it put more simply — ‘ Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise . |
| 5 | ‘ Only it might not quite be what you 'd think acceptable . ’ |
| 6 | Oh we used to er there used to be er er two rooms downstairs and then there used to be what you used to call er the attic they used to call them in them days . |
| 7 | We do n't ever REVIEW beta test software — there 's just too much that can change between us seeing early versions and the code being finalised , and that means that what you see reviewed might not be what you will buy . |
| 8 | And I 'm not a clever lass , I 'm what you would call a b … fool . ’ |
| 9 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 10 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 11 | ‘ All the words he uses are what you would call anti-feminist , ’ said a police officer . |
| 12 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
| 13 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 14 | James Bruxner , chairman of the SWA , said : ‘ We are what you might call pleasantly welcoming . |
| 15 | The questions you then have to tackle are what you can use it for and , even more important , what you should use it for . |
| 16 | None of the fish in any of his tanks are what you could call unusual — Corydoras , Barbs , Livebearers , a couple of splendid wild Angels , and a Red Tailed Black Shark make up the majority of the stock . |
| 17 | Quite apart from my visitors and my new friends , some of whom whisk me away to stay for the weekend , there are what you could call my ‘ professional engagements ’ . |
| 18 | THERE has n't been what you would call a flood of letters following our move to computerised printing . |
| 19 | We 've never been what you might call close , me and your nan . |
| 20 | Indeed , indeed so that 's what you might use , yep What 's the value , I mean what does it do what does it do for the company first of all ? |
| 21 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 22 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 'll get back and keep out of my way , that 's what you 'll do , ’ said the man , by now justifiably irritated . |
| 26 | That 's what you 'll do . |
| 27 | And that 's what you 'll do , you 'll become fit . |
| 28 | It 's , oh yeah call now on that 's what you 'll have to ri ing , the central or see your agent . |
| 29 | But they will because that 's what you 'll have agreed in your preparation meeting . |
| 30 | Here 's what you 'll need to buy for the week 's low-fat diet . |