Example sentences of "what [modal v] be called " in BNC.
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| 1 | They grew with his reading of Frazer who described the ‘ Burnt Land of Lydia ’ contrasting with the surrounding verdure and marvelled ( in the conclusion of The Dying God ) at ‘ what may be called the Australian spring ’ where ‘ the sandy and stony wilderness , over which the silence and desolation of death appear to brood , is suddenly , after a few days of torrential rain , transformed into a landscape smiling with verdure ’ . |
| 2 | He is the head of a great Government office — what may be called the secretarial office ; he is ‘ the King 's Secretary of State for all departments ’ ; whatever writing has to be done in the King 's name is done by the Chancellor or through him and his officers . |
| 3 | The two most important catchphrases , certainly by the 1890s , were the ‘ law of evolution ’ and what may be called the spirit of organization . |
| 4 | It is held together not by command and obedience but by influence and what may be called allegiance … |
| 5 | The American biologist Garrett Hardin used it to summarize the message of what may be called ‘ sociobiology ’ or ‘ selfish genery ’ . |
| 6 | The division of work would be that Scott would have ‘ ( subject to its conformity with internal arrangements ) the general command of the external design , and Wyatt would have ‘ the more especial direction of the interior ’ , except that they should work jointly on certain interiors ‘ of a more public nature such as public halls staircases corridors and what may be called the state apartments ’ . |
| 7 | These five species constitute what may be called the typical owl pattern , and even though it encompasses a fair degree of variability it is consistent enough for departures from it to be instantly recognizable . |
| 8 | First , by continual introduction of trees , shrubs , flowers and vegetables a gardener achieves what may be called contrived plant diversity , far higher than the area would support naturally , and rivalling even that of tropical rainforest . |
| 9 | The relationship with what may be called the NWICO movement needs both study and experimentation . |
| 10 | That is , the appearance of AB being shorter than BC is not what may be called a ‘ perspectival appearance ’ . |
| 11 | He held what may be called the ‘ thought → speech → thought ’ or ‘ translation ’ theory of communication . |
| 12 | Another of the traditional arguments is what may be called ‘ the parrot argument ’ . |
| 13 | On the rationalist side in each case the enquiry begins from what may be called an anthropological starting-point . |
| 14 | You will be concerned with what may be called the degree of pruning : do you prune hard , ruthlessly to ground level , or not so drastically ? |
| 15 | The ideas were in effect harnessed to what may be called a theory of progressivism ; that is , a belief which embraced socialism as an ideal but which argued that , with the coming of democracy , socialism could be achieved through a process of gradual evolution from the old order to the new . |
| 16 | It is believed moreover to be the case that , as God , Jesus had what may be called a trans-historical knowledge . |
| 17 | Next I proceed to what may be called conservative Christologies , Christologies in which the maleness of Christ is said to be of the very essence of Christology . |
| 18 | Eliot certainly appreciated Hayward 's caustic wit and was himself , according to Hayward , " … a connoisseur of the ridiculous , an ironical commentator on human folly , a lover of allusive quotation ( particularly from the dicta of Sherlock Holmes and other eminent detectives ) , and a passionate observer of what may be called the Bouvard et Pécuchet way of life " . |
| 19 | In much of our reflection on this question , we shall also be dealing with a third , which will be as important , that of the nature of certain other necessary or nomic connections , which hold between what may be called nomic correlates . |
| 20 | As for what may be called , although not very properly , the conflict with our ordinary ways of speaking , in which events , facts , and things are mentioned as causes or conditions , and also other items ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 133 ) , the principal explanation is that we are in accord with the rooted practice of taking the whole for the part . |
| 21 | Readers of the various chapters in Unwin ( 1969 ) will see a clear distinction made between what may be called education plus technology ( where individuals try to find uses for available equipment ) and the study of instructional methods and systems , which is what the true discipline of educational technology is properly concerned to encourage . |
| 22 | Also contributing to the effect are what may be called " abstract locative " nouns , indicating geometrical features : lines , division , end , track , head , line , edge , joint , sweep , curves , etc . |
| 23 | The need for a third dimension arises most obviously from what may be called the problem of philosophy . |
| 24 | ‘ while the relation of a husband to his wife is not one of influence , and no presumption exists of undue influence , it has never been divested completely of what may be called equitable presumptions of an invalidating tendency . |
| 25 | It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim . |
| 26 | What ‘ the state ’ stands for is a number of particular institutions which , together , constitute its reality , and which interact as parts of what may be called the state system . |
| 27 | So one may experience variously what may be called ‘ Radio 2–1970s-disco-feel ’ music , or heavy rock , or traditional hymnody , or 1960s jazz-band music . |
| 28 | Although supplementary facts should not , in general , be added to a problem , the case is different with what may be called omitted facts . |
| 29 | The power of some pressure groups can only be explained in terms of what may be called an ‘ insider ’ status within the policy-making system . |
| 30 | Lastly , I have tried to show tat the mechanical properties of many polymers may be described using the concepts and terminology of composites , so indicating the usefulness of what may be called a theory of materials . |