Example sentences of "of [pron] [pers pn] might call " in BNC.
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| 1 | But many interviews carried out in social research are of samples of what we might call ‘ ordinary ’ people — people who have characteristics , opinions and knowledge of a much more general nature . |
| 2 | Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts . |
| 3 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 4 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 5 | He , too , is constrained in his interpretation by past similar experience , by interpreting in the light of what we might call the principle of analogy . |
| 6 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 7 | Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification . |
| 8 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 9 | In Southend , where 3,000 of the 50,000 adult males are reckoned to be Masons , it went into the case of what you might call Preferential Allocation of Council Property , and the battle of one councillor , Christopher Hudson , to break the grip of the men on the Square : ‘ We ca n't have a secret society operating within the framework of a democracy , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Now that it no longer seems so shocking that the town should have grown as it has , the newer half is in fact the more attractive , a fine example of what you might call the Thermal-Imperial style , imposing even in its incongruity , up here in the mountains , with its tall bourgeois hotels framed against the surrounding woods and crags . |
| 11 | are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country . |
| 12 | Erm but not everybody 's quite so erm y'know not everybody gets on with everybody and um this kind of what you might call personal chemistry , to lapse for a moment into pharmacological determinism er maybe helps um maybe helps a bit . |
| 13 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 14 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |