Example sentences of "what [indef pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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1 | But I think trick or treat itself , maybe has got a bit perhaps distorted from what one might imagine the American idea originally was . |
2 | If they are what one might call the ‘ young ’ elderly , who are still keeping afloat very happily in the mainstream of life and enjoying their independence , the problems are few . |
3 | Two were also Products of what one might call the orifice revolution , i.e. gaining entry to the inside of the body other than by cutting into it from the outside . |
4 | ‘ I suppose , ’ Hawkins said , ‘ that that would be what one might call the grand-daddy of them all ? ’ |
5 | This account is couched in computational terms , which are objective rather than subjective but which relate to what one might call the ‘ structure ’ of phenomenology . |
6 | So far as the whole personality does not fall victim to the pressures either of the external environment or what one might call the internal environment of its own parts — in the form of various lusts and obsessions — it achieves its only conceivable goal , that of prosperous possession , in the fullest manner , of its own nature . |
7 | It has , however , been more popular with what one might call the " Gee-whizz " school of science popularisers , always out to stun the public with the weirdness of what they have to offer . |
8 | Yet if one observes this battle more closely one may see that it is waged around what one might call the ephemera of sex : what is seen , what is said , what is written rather than what is or is not concerned with sexual reality . |
9 | A slightly more complex form of the crime short story , and one which can pay considerable dividends in reader enjoyment , is what one might call the plain puzzle story with a solution coming from cunning detective work , both by the sleuth and the reader . |
10 | On a deeper level , it will be shown that the case for the traditional view of the Muftilik-essentially that it rose from a position of relative unimportance to become , in the time of Suleyman , the principal office in the learned hierarchy-rests largely on premises conditioned by what one might call the " hierarchical " viewpoint . |
11 | The anthropologist 's task is to map out this system , and , by using the tools of linguistic analysis , to draw up what one might call the grammar of the various cultures he encounters . |
12 | I had thought that there had been a really massive shift from what one might call the public sector into the private sector . |
13 | ‘ Virtually all the staff appear to be foreign , sir , other than what one might call the old retainers . ’ |
14 | or what one might call the old , old fashioned conservative women . |
15 | Second , the defendant has what one might term the ‘ lawful motivation ’ , believing that the actions taken were right and proper . |
16 | It would be gravely mistaken to understate the depth of difference between John Paul II and the general viewpoint of what one may call the Western Catholic avant-garde , the post-conciliar network of theologians , religious and committed laity . |
17 | Andy Medhurst locates as ‘ the central visual themes of the 1950s male pin-up in Britain what one could call the hegemony of the tweed jacket or the ideology of gentrification ’ . |