Example sentences of "[pron] you might call [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you might call a new one . ’ |
| 2 | In this case Dr Lusman did not do that and he took the sample by using his finger and a spatula , in what you might call a blind manner , and doing it by feeling . |
| 3 | First , what you might call a local bye-law ; a rule for this particular sort of book . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Who demonstrated what you might call a profound lack of interest . |
| 6 | They call themselves Rektum , and all signs suggest they enjoyed what you might call a safe passage . |
| 7 | Every now and again , we run up against what you might call a medieval . |
| 8 | Hardly what you might call an international banking centre . |
| 9 | Whereas we used to have what you might call an across-the-table relationship with our customers , now we can claim to be sitting on the same side of the table . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ So among what you might call the floating waiting population , there 's really only you . ’ |
| 11 | W. R. Parzynski and P. W. Zipse 's Introduction to Mathematical Analysis makes a better job than most , and it does it all in the right order , from special to general , what you might call the Reverse Bourbaki Gambit . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 14 | At the same time that personal computer technology is moving to centre stage for corporate applications , ‘ it is moving down into what you might call the intelligent television , where you can select any type of movie to see , or shop , or interact with information , ’ Gates said . |