Example sentences of "we could call " in BNC.
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| 1 | We could call it community work , could n't we . ’ |
| 2 | Initially , both this and its French counterpart , the Academie des Sciences , were concerned as much with what we could call technology as with science . |
| 3 | For example , we could call the second flip-flop in the top row ‘ Row 1 column 2 ’ . |
| 4 | Complaints after the weekend prompted an RFU spokesman to admit : ‘ We could call a special meeting of the sub-committee that deals with ground rebuilding . |
| 5 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 6 | We could call the former a realist position ; the realist believes that there are evidence-transcendent truths , truths whose obtaining lies beyond our powers of recognition . |
| 7 | We could call this a ‘ defeasible ’ or ‘ prima facie ’ justification ; it is weaker than that provided by indubitability , because it countenances the possibility that there be reasons against a basic belief . |
| 8 | Extract 1 A : so if there 's a hardware store we could call in and get one on the way back B : do you think there is one A : yes B : OK then * A : that would be nice would n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ When I was fifteen , I had what we could call today a nervous breakdown . |
| 10 | I guess we could call him a sound entrepreneur . ’ |
| 11 | or of the Person — ‘ Al ’ , we could call him — |
| 12 | ( However , throughout this discussion I have ignored those psychosomatic disorders which might be the consequence of what we could call ‘ somatic externalization ’ . |
| 13 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 14 | Turning to the third category , of strokes that serve to separate clearly a single note from a group of slurred notes that either precede or follow , we could call them ‘ separation strokes ’ We find strokes in such patterns as shown in ex.3a so overwhelmingly , that we can identify sporadic dots as shrunken strokes . |
| 15 | It is the speaker 's intention and the addressee 's successful location of the intended referent that matter in the first usage , not the exact aptness of the description , so that we could call this usage speaker reference ( as opposed to semantic reference ; Donnellan , 1978 ; Kaplan , 1978 ) . |
| 16 | It seems that bats may be using something that we could call a " strangeness filter " . |
| 17 | Er , a category you could call , loosely , vocal and a category we could call body language perhaps , okay ? |
| 18 | We can find differences in pronunciation ( as well as in other fields of linguistic analysis ) resulting from various factors that we could call static influences including ( in addition to geographical origin ) one 's age and sex , social class , educational background , occupation and personality . |
| 19 | that 's what we could call her |
| 20 | That 's what I says to her , like on Friday when you come in by the time we 've got yo got you summat to eat and a bath and your petrol and everything ready for the next week filled your car up , that we could call in then but like if we have Saturday night you can either go to bed , sleep on floor or do virtually what you want cos you do n't have to go on Sunday if you do n't want . |
| 21 | There was n't any chance really , well there was nothing which we could call there was no encouragement for girls to achieve anything academically or really encouragement for them to do anything much with their lives after they left school , aside from in the home , except for perhaps being domestic servants , something like that , which is after all the category of employment which absorbed most women until quite late on . |
| 22 | We 're sort of outside of that area so I do n't know what we do about our video equipment , but I think it would be beneficial if there were somebody we could call on to sort out problems for us , who actually understood all the stuff . |