Example sentences of "[is] [Wh det] [pron] might [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ 'That 's what one might call a loaded question , Miss Lightbody . |
| 2 | Aye , that 's what he might have said like before he could fax it up . |
| 3 | we can always ask to put them away for a week yeah that 's what I might do |
| 4 | Or perhaps … perhaps it 's what I might have to say that you 're frightened of ? |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | The first is what we might call the ‘ technical Pacific ’ — that immense body of water lying to the seaward of all the island arcs and groups within the Ocean 's obvious continental margins . |
| 11 | This is what we might call the Porter Scene in Macbeth technique . |
| 12 | That is what we might call suppression . |
| 13 | You could say , that er , a Hobbesian view of human nature , that people are basically anti-social egoistic and er , aggressive , and that if left to themselves , life would be a war , war against all , is what we might call a pessimistic view of human nature . |
| 14 | When a weak-form word is being contrasted with another word , e.g. : ‘ The letter 's from him , not to him ’ A similar case is what we might call a co-ordinated use of prepositions : ‘ I travel to and from London a lot ’ ‘ A work of and about literature ’ |
| 15 | ( If the limescale was indeed clumping together , this is what one might expect — a sand filter takes out the finest particles ) . |
| 16 | Understanding men and women and relationships as I do , I thought there was more chance of it not working out and the rest is what one might call one 's intuition . |
| 17 | What he tends to ignore , however , is what one might call value charged definitions which do not function as persuasive devices for modifying attitudes but serve simply to formulate , and perhaps endorse , combinations of descriptive and valuational meaning in ordinary usage which reflect widely shared attitudes . |
| 18 | A slightly more complex form of the crime short story , and one which can pay considerable dividends in reader enjoyment , is what one might call the plain puzzle story with a solution coming from cunning detective work , both by the sleuth and the reader . |
| 19 | The ERA quality — ‘ quality ’ being brewers ' jargon for a beer type — is what I might term dark heavy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Now , as we saw in the , in the , when we discussed this in the class , the central theme of Totem and Taboo , is , is what you might call , to use a , a psychoanalytic jargon term , ambivalence . |
| 22 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 23 | The project is what you might call labour-intensive . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Bob , at eighty , is what you might call an enthusiast . |