Example sentences of "might [be] call [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hurtling along the open track and through what might be called a blinding blizzard , the C.P.R. ‘ Special ’ carried Gladstone Murray and his party to Regina in just over an hour . |
| 2 | There is , of course , nothing new in the development of what might be called a farm-centred community , distinct and largely separated from the village , particularly in the pastoral and upland areas of England , where this kind of settlement pattern has traditionally been more common . |
| 3 | They applied what might be called a Morellian analysis , recording precisely the minute details of the ancient works , dividing statues into as many as 300 measurable parts , and entering the results into a database . |
| 4 | HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance . |
| 5 | There was a long silence — what I think might be called a pregnant pause . |
| 6 | In what follows , we adopt what might be called a modified pluralist approach ( Hall et al . , |
| 7 | This might be called a constructive attack , since it implied that Morgenthau 's notion of a determining system might be strengthened by dropping the contentious and unprovable notion of human nature . |
| 8 | What might be called a conservative legal-constitutionalism is a consistent theme within Tory-Anglican thought throughout our period , even though not all Tory Anglicans would have argued such a position at all times with the same degree of commitment . |
| 9 | Identification of what might be called a transient problem , compared with , with a deep-seated long-term problem , is perhaps not always apparent . |
| 10 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 11 | It is what might be called a self-perpetuat-ing oligarchy with mild , but only mild overtones of plutocracy . ’ |
| 12 | Elaborations are characteristic of what might be called a pedagogical style , which itself can be explained in terms of the principle of relevance . |
| 13 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 14 | The norm which is " attained " by stylistic consistency in a text might be called a SECONDARY NORM , since it is established by deviance from the PRIMARY ( relative ) NORMS which determine our more general expectations of language . |
| 15 | We are more concerned here with what might be called the roast beef of scoring than with the confectionery . |
| 16 | Today , the existence of these stages of psycho-sexual development is seldom disputed , even though , as we have already seen , the full significance of infantile sexuality is characteristically denied and avoided by what might be called the modern , permissive defence against psychoanalytic insight . |
| 17 | These properties might be called the zero-divisor law , the cancellation law and the mysterious law ( see [ 4 , p. 5 ] ) respectively . |
| 18 | Another process which would be applicable to the right type of terrain is what might be called the continuous reclamation process . |
| 19 | What might be called the traditional view of the effect of the capital structure on the price of shares is that there is an optimal debt-equity mix which will maximize the value of the company 's securities . |
| 20 | This time I want to concentrate on what might be called the postmodern mode of signification , or a postmodern ‘ semiotics ’ . |
| 21 | The second reason for thinking there will be more back-pedalling reflects shifts in what might be called the strategic and historical experience of some of the EC 's members . |
| 22 | She has become what might be called The professional Daleswoman . |
| 23 | When we visited the big open-air retail market in the upper town at Montpellier , there was an ordinary enough little charcuterie-épicerie stall offering the ingredients of what might be called the small change of French cookery , but to our English eyes it looked particularly inviting and interesting . |
| 24 | The journal also publishes what might be called The Ten Commandments of New Humanity , though the magazine invites its readers to ‘ make up their own ’ if they prefer . |
| 25 | These accounts derive from diverse current perspectives which should not be conflated — psychoanalysis , philosophy , and what might be called the metaphysical vision of the cultural critic and creative writer . |
| 26 | The skates and rays , relatives of sharks , have become flat in what might be called the obvious way . |
| 27 | They had inhibitions about concentrating on what might be called the Dickensian essentials ; a great deal of specified food and drink , presents wanted and unwanted , the gathering of friends and relations . |
| 28 | By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent . |
| 29 | Behind the developed road and street frontages forming the settlement proper , what might be called the rural-urban fringe was reached . |
| 30 | The recording has what might be called an honest directness — it is clear and bright , if a little too closely miked , but in both performance and recording I miss truly elegant characterisations of these particular scores . |