Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] may call " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus we have the impression of what we may call a ‘ sacred history ’ , threaded through history : the history of the liberation of people . |
| 2 | Enough if I have shown that if we care to do so , we can illustrate the second as well as the first half of what I may call the Plowden proposition . |
| 3 | During the February 1975 House of Commons debate on plans by the Wilson Government to increase the civil list allowances to the royal family , Kinnock , then an MP of five years standing , launched into a characteristically blustering attack on ‘ the senior executives of what I may call ‘ the Crown Limited ’ , who were ‘ outrageously overpaid ’ . |
| 4 | Yet we are also familiar within ourselves with what we may call our rational streak . |
| 5 | These works were founded by Mr Joseph Wright , who had for many years been intimately connected with what we may call ‘ the system of locomotion ’ , having been a contractor for the conveyance of mails , and the owner of most of the coaches running between the Metropolis and Birmingham , and other large towns . |
| 6 | There is no doubt that factors like these are important in what we may call the social ‘ life ’ of language , and they are implicated in many aspects of linguistic variation and change . |
| 7 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
| 8 | -WA serves to create a theme by identifying NP 's [ i.e. noun phrases ] that are to be placed on what we may call the ‘ thematic stage ’ . |
| 9 | The first phase , that of the theologians of the 1950s and the central issues of the Council itself , might be characterized as ultramontanism versus what we may call ( using an old term , now largely abandoned ) Cisalpinism . |
| 10 | This is the central concern for what we may call the ‘ top-down ’ approach to the study of implementation : why do n't those who are expected to carry out policies do what is required of them ? |