Example sentences of "what he [vb -s] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we posit an inner private object to be what the child knows and what he uses the words ‘ I like Auntie Kate ’ to stand for . |
| 2 | Although he is supportive of the general trend of de-hospitalising labour wards in the NHS , he dislikes what he calls the evangelism of the active birth movement . |
| 3 | Spence ( 1979 ) also describes what he calls the Corylus — Primula — Ranunculus ficaria community from rock ledges in Allt Volagir , S. Uist . |
| 4 | An example of Wimsatt 's ( 1958 : 147 — 8 ) is what he calls the metaphor , and many would call the simile , in the last line of this passage from Donne 's ‘ A Valediction : forbidding mourning ’ ( like Eliot , the New Critics were particularly attached to the Metaphysical poets ) : The comparison between the lovers ' separation and the hammering of gold into leaf-form brings together two terms which are clearly quite different and therefore might justifiably be described as opposites ; and the conjunction of meanings thus established creates a series of connections ( the relationship between the separated lovers is like gold leaf in that it is ethereal ( ‘ ayery ’ ) , delicate , easily damaged , but at the same time precious , pure , bright , etc. ) , which when related to real experience possesses considerable illuminating force . |
| 5 | Mike Brogden wants to see quality principles extended to what he calls the software side of the business . |
| 6 | In a huge variety of ways and from a multitude of different per-spectives Derrida shows that nothing escapes différance , that there are no inviolate entities , that everything becomes part of what he calls the play of differences . |
| 7 | WITH a nod towards what he calls the column 's ‘ unorthodox allegiance ’ , Tom Lynn has sent the front cover of The Gooner , the Arsenal fanzine . |
| 8 | Woods ( 82 ) argues that admissible algorithms ( i.e. algorithms which give this guarantee ) , or near-admissible ones which relax the constraints in a principled way , are to be preferred over what he calls the ad-hoc , arbitrary strategies used by Hearsay-II . |
| 9 | An MP who 's at risk of losing much of his personal fortune in the Lloyds insurance scandal is calling for legal action to stop what he calls the swindling , fraud and insider dealing in the insurance market . |
| 10 | Northam ( 1988 ) points out how the Metropolitan police have responded with ‘ considerable imagination ’ to the apathy and cynicism of lower ranks by putting them through courses designed to combat sexism , racism and what he calls the John Wayne machismo ‘ canteen culture ’ . |
| 11 | 200 students paid 2 pounds each to hear the Foreign Secretary talk about what he calls the soul searching and introspection going on around the world . |
| 12 | Dissatisfaction with the models outlined above has led Chandler ( 1988a , p. 185 ) to put forward what he calls the stewardship model . |
| 13 | Even many voters who could n't bring themselves to endorse him last November are prepared to believe in what he calls the politics of hope . |
| 14 | Budhoo puts the excesses of such ‘ joyrides in the IMF bulldozer when the moon is high ’ down to the zeal of what he calls the Fund 's ‘ professionalized ’ political ideology , rather than to a political conspiracy . |
| 15 | The research is being conducted within the theoretical context of ‘ discourse models ’ — the mental representations which a listener constructs on the basis of what he knows about the world in general , what the speaker is actually saying and what he thinks the speaker is intending to say . |
| 16 | For such macro-systems , the principle that the designer produces what he thinks the users need is being replaced by the principle that the users themselves decide what they want and the professionals assist them in designing as specified by the users . |
| 17 | Was his calculation based on any assessment of what he thinks the cost of that renationalisation might be ? |
| 18 | If you reach the conclusion that the asking price is reasonable , ring the agent and ask if any other offers have been made and what he thinks the owner might accept . |
| 19 | The teacher 's expectations of the lesson , ie , what he hopes the pupils will do , achieve , etc . |
| 20 | To read it is not to be entertained by ‘ a good yarn ’ , but to share Proust 's recreation of what he believes the nature , the quality , the , almost the texture , as it were , of various kinds of human experience , to be like . |
| 21 | Would he tell us then what he believes the impact of the er pay settlements will have on the spending he 's allowed local authorities because it seems to me there must either be a cut in staff er and a cut in services if they 're gon na keep within the the money that he made available at the time when he was n't aware of these settlements . |
| 22 | Fuller proceeds to lay down what he conceives the forms and limits of adjudication to be . |
| 23 | In one of the first quantitative studies of what he terms the communication explosion , Cherry ( 1978 ) argues that global telecommunications are based on a ‘ tripod skeleton ’ of three main circuits , transatlantic/Europe , Far East/Europe , and North/South America . |
| 24 | Stan Wilson became a sergeant in the Army Educational Corps ‘ it 's said that the only battle they ever won was the 1945 General Election for Labour ’ before spending 34 years at what he terms the chalk face . |
| 25 | In each of these cases the basic problem is the same : a will has been made , and in it a debtor is left a legacy of liberatio from what he owes the testator . |