Example sentences of "what [modal v] be call the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gombrich points out : ‘ the experience of the underlying constancies in a person 's face which is so strong as to survive all the transformations of mood and age and even to leap across generations , conflicts with the strange fact that such recognition can be inhibited with comparative ease by what may be called the mask ’ . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 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 | The need for a third dimension arises most obviously from what may be called the problem of philosophy . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He makes heavy use of what may be called the Argument from Personal Incredulity . |
| 8 | The relationship with what may be called the NWICO movement needs both study and experimentation . |
| 9 | And in Dworkin it is evident in his views that ‘ government must be neutral on what might be called the question of the good life … [ and ] political decisions must be , so far as possible , independent of any particular conception of the good life , or of what gives value to life ’ . |
| 10 | It was around this time there were grave doubts about what might be called the cost-effectiveness of the results achieved by Bomber Command . |
| 11 | However , there is an important difference between what might be called the doctrine of empiricism , and scientific theory , which must be empirical in the sense that statements can be deduced from theory which are about particular events and which can be checked by observation . |
| 12 | So let us consider what might be called the continuum of control in the interview situation ; the one end of the continuum where there is the minimal amount of control can be called the situation of the ‘ informal interview ’ and the other end , where there is maximum control , may be called the ‘ formal interview ’ . |
| 13 | Romantic suspense is what might be called the literature of the night side of human experience . |
| 14 | As will be considered further , it is not at all clear , however , that the newly formulated offence entirely cures what might be called the policeman defect . |
| 15 | Evaluation , then , is the process of specifying what might be called the transfer value of ideas . |
| 16 | On the body of the car , on each side of the door and on what might be called the architrave , are two handles . |
| 17 | when he or she is expected to adhere to general rules of conduct , what might be called the family 's ‘ standing orders ’ . |
| 18 | I have in mind two especially : the first involves what might be called the impossibility of desire , the second the notion of desire and/or identity as involving an ineluctable splitting . |
| 19 | The concerns of what might be called the research and development agencies in the NHS , such as the Nuffield Foundation and the Kings Fund , also provided a stimulus for change . |
| 20 | The most important requirement is to improve for all musicians what might be called the infrastructure of opportunity . |
| 21 | If , then , this column is going to be devoted to what could be called the ecology ( or Eco-logy ) of popular culture , it 's obliged to recognize that none of the emblematic artifices and artefacts of that culture , be they movies , commercials , headlines , photographs , typefaces , fashions or fads , can any longer be trusted to be ‘ innocent ’ ; that even if the crisp elegance of the typeface in which this article is embedded emits a ‘ meaning ’ as much as does the text itself , that meaning is also just as conscious and deliberate . |
| 22 | Over half the answers to the ‘ best ’ aspects question refer to what could be called the work dimension of the role , as do almost all the answers to the ‘ worst ’ aspects question — even though these questions do not specify housework , but permit answers relating to marriage , motherhood and home life generally . |