Example sentences of "[be] [pron] you might call [art] " 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 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 3 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Bob , at eighty , is what you might call an enthusiast . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Father was what you might call a rake . |