Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [pron] [modal v] [verb] a " 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 | And on that side , what we fireplace it used to be what we used to call a boiler , you used to fill it with water and it used to the fire used to heat it for you to take it we used to call what we used to call ladle it out into a a bowl to wash your pots with or wash your floor with or anything with . |
| 3 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 4 | That 's a stro that would be what you would call a stroke saver . |
| 5 | Good I 'm pleased about that , so I did n't really want somebody coming all the way down from the West End cos I 'm I , I 'm what I would call a buyer , I 'm only going to be a buyer if I can get money from somewhere that I do n't know you know what I mean . |
| 6 | And I 'm not a clever lass , I 'm what you would call a b … fool . ’ |
| 7 | In the first place , there has been what one might call an ethnic ‘ backlash ’ from British Asian and Afro-Caribbean communities . |
| 8 | THERE has n't been what you would call a flood of letters following our move to computerised printing . |
| 9 | ’ 'That 's what one might call a loaded question , Miss Lightbody . |
| 10 | He 's what they used to call an alternative comic , although that description is already a bit out of date . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's what I would call an ecological holocaust , ’ said the leader of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II . |
| 12 | By taking elements from the two and learning how to play them live together , it 's what I 'd call a real fusion . ’ |
| 13 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 14 | Masklin crept back through the grass to the nomes ' camp , if that 's what you could call a tiny dry space under a scrap of thrown-away plastic . |
| 15 | You could say , that er , a Hobbesian view of human nature , that people are basically anti-social egoistic and er , aggressive , and that if left to themselves , life would be a war , war against all , is what we might call a pessimistic view of human nature . |
| 16 | When a weak-form word is being contrasted with another word , e.g. : ‘ The letter 's from him , not to him ’ A similar case is what we might call a co-ordinated use of prepositions : ‘ I travel to and from London a lot ’ ‘ A work of and about literature ’ |
| 17 | But he did recognize that there was strong pro-social currents in the , in the ego , and the resulting view , I think , is what I would call a realistic view of human nature . |
| 18 | Th this criterion I think is what I would call an operational criteria , erm it defines effectively what 's going into the new settlement . |
| 19 | Later that year Thein Pe told Force 136 that there were many ‘ sympathisers ’ and even some activists ; he added ‘ Thakin Nu is what I may call an active sympathiser . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Bob , at eighty , is what you might call an enthusiast . |
| 22 | That was what one might call a pre-poll tax consensus . |
| 23 | It was what they used to call a " banger " and it exploded at my feet as I hurried along the dark passage in answer to the door bell 's ring , making me leap into the air in terror . |
| 24 | He was what they used to call a bad influence in the school . |
| 25 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Father was what you might call a rake . |
| 28 | He was what you 'd call a late developer . |
| 29 | In fact they do just about everything short of brushing their teeth , but this was what I would call a really good laugh , if you know what I mean . |