Example sentences of "[is] [pron] [pers pn] might call [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This is what we might call the Porter Scene in Macbeth technique . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bob , at eighty , is what you might call an enthusiast . |
| 9 | 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 . |