Example sentences of "what [pron] call [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | What we are looking for is what I call constructive no-men . |
2 | Erm but there are a few what I call golden rules to avoid becoming one of these four hundred people every week who come into our advice centre . |
3 | That 's what I call fantastic dreams . |
4 | I had to , I was doing two what I call mid washes , this sort of colour |
5 | So from that point of view they are in a better position er than we are , er but of the European erm powers , or countries , er the two er neutral countries of Sweden and Switzerland , er they are what I call classic examples . |
6 | I see that in American television now there are a lot of what I call reality-based shows which are doing that also . |
7 | I shall suggest that these attempts to find what I call compensatory factors not only fail to be counterbalances , but also represent the undoing of Christology . |
8 | My preferred vision of the future is what I call computer-aided freedom ( caf ) ( Deeson , 1983 ) . |
9 | There are plenty of places where you can what I call safe art . |
10 | Cos on the new P V C doors , most of the security is down one side , you 've got what I call multi-locking surface . |
11 | Now at the moment every doctor has in his desk a supply of what I call yellow cards , obviously because they 're yellow , which he 's asked to fill in if he thinks that a medicine which he has prescribed may have caused some nasty effect , for example to give the patient headaches , or to make them giddy , or to make them sick , or perhaps even something more serious than that . |
12 | Like he handles his team so well his top striker pisses off home the day of a cup match & they get knocked out — that 's what I call top quality management ! ! ! |
13 | ‘ That 's what I call psychological violence , ’ says Singleton . |
14 | ‘ Now , this is what I call proper flying , ’ said Angalo , happily . |
15 | That is what I call everyday listening . ’ |
16 | And you get silly , what I call silly things . |
17 | I see us moving more and more , towards what I call these kind of targets of activities , we 've got the Victoria Ward |
18 | Erm , so you would leave what I call this deadwood lying on your spreadsheet , cells that are using up memory , they 're not needed any more erm , on many people 's spreadsheets I 've discovered quite a lot of deadwood using up large amounts of memory , like in some people 's cases two-thirds of the memory used by the deadwood . |
19 | We were talking I think this is the thing about clawback , er this year our erm receipts taken into account are two point three eight million as opposed to last year er this is taken into account we drew four hundred and seventy five thousand , that 's a huge jump erm the government by in telling us we can send this er this er what I call minuscule carrot erm this year er the capital receipts from November last year until December next year erm a anyone had undoubtedly for most of that back in the in in the use er er a grant and I think it , as the government have actually kept extremely quiet on this subject , that seemed to be the scenario that seems most likely to happen . |
20 | The hon. Lady complained about what she called secret deals to cut price increases . |
21 | Now that 's what you call liberistic women ! |
22 | The Spanish reporter , Alfonso Roja , describes a woman in Baghdad , her eyes smouldering , shouting down at a crowd of Western journalists : ‘ Is this what you call Western civilisation ? ’ |
23 | ‘ Is that what you call efficient use of processing resources ? |
24 | would n't you kill that fellow for doing that , that 's what you call bare-faced cheek |
25 | ‘ Is that what you call revolutionary consciousness ? ’ |
26 | It was a sort of what you call public council grounds I suppose you know . |
27 | this is what you call this place but I |
28 | If there 's anything embedded in it like gravel or something and it does n't come away easily you must n't , it comes under the categories of what you call foreign bodies , which first aider is not at liberty to poke about , you must leave foreign bodies that do n't come away easily where they are and bandage them round and send them off to hospital or a doctor , but assuming it 's just a little clean graze , if I have n't got a tap to put it under , then I must use little bits of gauze to wash , put in a bowl of water and just wipe , yeah , and you always wipe obviously from the centre of a wound towards the outside , otherwise if you start to wipe across the whole thing you take dirt from one side of the wound across and drop it off in the middle somewhere , so you wipe from the centre out and throw that piece away and you take another piece and wipe from the centre out and so on until you feel happy , quite happy . |
29 | I think that discussion is more usefully conducted in terms of what you called normal vacancies . |
30 | Egg and bacon on each plate but one and on this one a dried up , curled-up-with-age piece of smoked fillet , or what we called finney haddock . |