Example sentences of "might call a " 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 | Sir : Shabbir Akhtar ( 10 October ) himself makes what he might call a pardonable error in thinking that to liberals — genuine ones , not the compromisers so regretfully limned in John Torode 's article ( 3 October ) - freedom of speech is an absolute value . |
| 3 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 4 | Apart form losing the hypnotics , the end curvature ( what a transport engineer might call a filter road ) can suggest the positive robustness of the earth swelling beyond the frame . |
| 5 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 6 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 7 | If necessary the prosecution might call a vehicle examiner to give evidence where there is some technical failure of the handbrake such as a worn ratchet causing the brake lever to slip or a frayed cable which snapped under pressure . |
| 8 | But I not seen one yet as you might call a proper bleeding accident , if you takes my meaning ? ’ |
| 9 | Yet if I reflect upon what happened , in what some might call an existential manner , or attempt what physicists might call a ‘ thought experiment ’ to reconstruct my situation , I can see myself as having been assailed by various impulses : to assist the dog and stop the car , to comfort the children , to drive on lest I and they were to be injured in an accident , to avoid the horror of confronting a demented animal . |
| 10 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 11 | Charles feared for the unity of his dominions under the threat of Protestantism , and it seemed he might call a national synod in Germany which would not only undermine the authority of the papacy , but in the interests of political unity approve theological positions Rome could never accept . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Similarly , what we might call a ‘ social accident ’ , can result in radical alterations of relations within society . |
| 14 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 15 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 16 | Or again , considering ( 4 ) , there is no fixed length for turns in conversation , and sometimes one participant holds the floor for some time ; yet although we might call a turn of four minutes part of a conversation , we would consider conversation to have ceased if someone talked for an hour and a half . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | To reiterate the point , the main concern of this discussion has been to locate certain strategic possibilities , as well as constraints , in relation to the currently dominant structures of capitalist property , or in other words to argue the mutability of the economic class relations of possession and separation from the conditions of production in what one might call a ‘ non-millenarian , manner . |
| 19 | First , what you might call a local bye-law ; a rule for this particular sort of book . |
| 20 | ‘ I think we 'll send you for what you British might call a long stretch … . ’ |
| 21 | And er on your , on the better shoe , like you what we call , might call a Sunday shoe , you 'd have a a rubber heel put on , I do n't mean just a a complete heel but a round disc that was screwed on to your heel , if I can explain that to you . |
| 22 | Who demonstrated what you might call a profound lack of interest . |
| 23 | So it is very difficult to achieve what one might call a set pattern in life . |
| 24 | Father was what you might call a rake . |
| 25 | ’ 'That 's what one might call a loaded question , Miss Lightbody . |
| 26 | There was no attempt by either Salisbury or Kilmuir to use what one might call a prefect 's influence on the opinion of those they interviewed . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The problem is that although the beliefs and feelings are " always concerned with matters at the heart and root of existence " — which does suggest or give opportunity for something which is not just subjective in interpretation — it tends to subsume the religious view of life under what we might call a humanist umbrella . |
| 30 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |