Example sentences of "be what you might " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're what you might call a very catholic collection : flagellation , paedophilia , coprophilia ( sorry , I forget you 're not an aficionado — the sexual dimension of shit — J. Joyce had leanings that way ) , along with the usual nuns-and-donkeys sort of stuff . |
| 2 | It would n't be what you might think of as being on metre , and so you really had to listen and be real careful , because John Lee was gon na play his stuff and you better fit into it because he was n't gon na fit in with you ! |
| 3 | Then there were what you might call the ‘ county magnates ’ , who were important in their counties . |
| 4 | As Dinko Krajin , a policeman from Krusevo said this week , ‘ We , Hercegovinians , are what you might call radical Croats . |
| 5 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 6 | James Bruxner , chairman of the SWA , said : ‘ We are what you might call pleasantly welcoming . |
| 7 | We 've never been what you might call close , me and your nan . |
| 8 | Well , it 's what you might call clerkin' work , writin' letters for business firms at 'ome , which do n't come too welcome to an active man like 'im , so 'e likes to get out as much as 'e can to give 'is gammy leg a walk . |
| 9 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 10 | He says now he 's got the — ca n't remember the word , begins with a P , it 's what you might call the stake money — the people he works for in the Agatean Empire will pay up . |
| 11 | ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’ |
| 12 | Indeed , indeed so that 's what you might use , yep What 's the value , I mean what does it do what does it do for the company first of all ? |
| 13 | Cypress Semiconductor Corp 's notion that Sun Microsystems Inc has set up a hush-hush research unit to investigate HyperSparc ( UX No 410 ) , is what you might call a tad overstated . |
| 14 | Now , as we saw in the , in the , when we discussed this in the class , the central theme of Totem and Taboo , is , is what you might call , to use a , a psychoanalytic jargon term , ambivalence . |
| 15 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 16 | The project is what you might call labour-intensive . |
| 17 | One of the things I 'm arguing really is what you might call the ultimate goodness , you see the thing goodness I just define as what goes up when you decide things are getting better and what goes down when things are getting worse . |
| 18 | Bob , at eighty , is what you might call an enthusiast . |
| 19 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 20 | Russell was what you might call a social climber , inasmuch as he specialized in fitting out rock shelters for himself at various altitudes and if possible receiving his friends in them . |
| 21 | It was what you might call convenient — for both of us . ’ |
| 22 | Father was what you might call a rake . |