Example sentences of "might call [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 2 | To have the best chance of preventing the more serious family and child care problems , what we might call child abuse , the best chance of success is to improve and develop universal , non-stigmatizing services which are integrated into the mainstream of social provision for all children . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Modern research has shown that the innate factors at work seem largely to affect what we might call ego-development . |
| 5 | From the Shahs Niavaran Palace on the slope of North Teheran , where all the rich villas are clustered , the Queen , Farah Diba , has sent a plane load of clothes and what others might call household effects to the United States . |
| 6 | In a city-centre bar , the four members of Eugenius are convening for what they might call work . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | And er , one way to , to get people to stay on the land is to introduce some sort of , what we might call market disciplines , if that was n't such a dirty word , er , into the government , the government sector where there are clear inefficiencies . |
| 9 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’ |
| 13 | What he tends to ignore , however , is what one might call value charged definitions which do not function as persuasive devices for modifying attitudes but serve simply to formulate , and perhaps endorse , combinations of descriptive and valuational meaning in ordinary usage which reflect widely shared attitudes . |
| 14 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 15 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 16 | That is what we might call suppression . |