Example sentences of "of [Wh det] [pron] [modal v] [adv] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | This exodus was mainly caused by the anti-Communist attitude of their priests : and most of all by the new premier of what we may now call South Vietnam , Ngo Dinh Diem . |
| 2 | In this respect , however , Reynolds 's Newspaper had devised an interesting prototype of what we might nowadays call ‘ anomie theory ’ , arguing that crime was an inevitable result of the system of distribution of wealth and opportunity . |
| 3 | Even so , Baden-Powell 's intriguing romanticisation of what we would now call ‘ muggings ’ was not an uncommon response in these years . |
| 4 | Between these two pieces of legislation directed against " cottagers " and " paupers " — in other words against squatters — there occurred the most famous of what we would now call " ideologically-inspired " squats , that of Winstanley and the Diggers at Walton-on-Thames in Surrey in 1649 . |
| 5 | That is they would really be the beginnings of what we would now call travelogues . |
| 6 | Work in a museum did not encourage the study of what we should now call ecological relationships . |
| 7 | This much more elaborated nervous system is associated with a much greater range of what we can recognizably call adaptive behaviour . |
| 8 | They 're very important , part of her background — of what you might almost call her mythology . |
| 9 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 10 | As part of what he would later call his ‘ quiet revolution ’ , Heath made detailed preparations for a new style of government , business-like , rational and free of Wilsonian gimmickry . |