Example sentences of "what [pers pn] might term " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ERA quality — ‘ quality ’ being brewers ' jargon for a beer type — is what I might term dark heavy . |
| 2 | In practice , there are no limits as to the pictures a magazine can publish of a naked woman ( ‘ We would start to take an interest if the pictures were of what you might term kinky sex — bondage and so on , ’ says the Scotland Yard officer ) ; yet only the mildest pictures of naked men get into high-street newsagents . |
| 3 | Presumably , what we might term this ‘ post word identification ’ effect of context is also present in the perception and comprehension of spoken language as well as written language . |
| 4 | This is to recapitulate briefly what we might term the cultural , as opposed to the natural , history of the ego and the superego . |
| 5 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that , if my account of neoteny in man is correct , even the relatively ego-less citizen of the totalitarian state is the possessor of what we might term the neurophysiological substrate of the ego and the superego , which almost certainly comprises some of the most recently acquired elements of the human brain . |
| 6 | This will constitute what we might term the Prolegomena to the inquiry proper . |