Example sentences of "[subord] what [pers pn] [vb mod] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | But already we can see one most unexpected and surprising consequence of this : if what we may call the phallic or Oedipal trauma came first in human cultural history and was the original event from which all else flowed , then in terms of individual psychosexual development it follows last , preceded by the oral stage whose cultural equivalent succeeded it ! |
| 2 | If what I will call the hypothetical cost test is adopted it will come very close to a market value test . |
| 3 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 4 | One can see from this that random sampling is not at all the same as what we might call ‘ personal choice ’ . |
| 5 | No not not mu much as what you can call vandalism , you know people spraying paint on the tinned up windows and that . |
| 6 | Particularly strong articulative relationships are established when what we can call ‘ cross-connotation ’ takes place : that is , when two or more different elements are made to connote , symbolize or evoke each other . |