Example sentences of "what [pron] [modal v] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dealing generally with the question of art teaching , when addressing himself to the abortive attempt to found a Fine Art course at Oxford in 1922 , he postulated that art schools should , above all else avoid , ‘ The temptation to consider the number of students as a test of success , what I may call a kind of moral and social capitation grant . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When you walked into the well what I would call a cupboard but they classed it as the bathroom . |
| 4 | And he wanted to make similar remarks about our initial belief that though we use the same language and agree on the words with which to describe the colours of the objects around us , still we might for all we know see the objects completely differently ; an object that causes in me what I call a sensation of red may cause in you what I would call a sensation of blue , though we can never know this since we will continue to agree on what to say and on how to act in our differently coloured environments ( we will all stop at a red traffic light , for instance ) . |
| 5 | That much sooner and in the last hour , couple of hours we 've seen what I would call a Tweedledee and Tweedledum amendments erm because quite frankly there is n't that much difference between them er at the end of the day the impact on the people who 've had to pay the bill is virtually the same . |
| 6 | Next time we meet a Hun , I know what I shall have a pot at . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The constable has a duty to tell the defendant of his right to have the specimens of breath replaced by what I shall call a section [ 7(4) ] specimen , where the intoximeter readings show 50 microgrammes of alcohol or less in 100 millilitres of breath . |
| 8 | Father was what you might call a rake . |
| 9 | It 's voluntary but there 's what you might call a lot of job satisfaction . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 12 | That is an insult for mestizos , what you would call a half-breed . |
| 13 | THERE has n't been what you would call a flood of letters following our move to computerised printing . |
| 14 | That 's a stro that would be what you would call a stroke saver . |
| 15 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 16 | At night George did what you 'd expect a husband to but I did n't mind . |
| 17 | Man Freitag PETER Freitag is n't what you 'd call a loser , of course , simply an habitual bronze medallist . |
| 18 | Like what we would call a part , but they called them foys |
| 19 | Sensitivity to the forces lying beneath the surface , seeing subtle connections between parts of the landscape that seem separate to us , would lead them inevitably to what we would call a form of astrology . |
| 20 | Then we had to then fiddle about and get the chain up with a big pole and heave that up and we always knew that if a dumb hopper come back and they 'd what we used to call they 'd lost a door , one of the doors used to break , used to be about I would say erm eight doors in the hold , separate doors and if one of them broke they 'd fiddle about with a big , what we would call a pole with a hook on trying to get hold of the chain and we 'd see that there pole sticking up out of the hold , we knew they lost a door so what they used to do they used to leave with the dredger and we 'd finish that off before we load it , had to . |
| 21 | Since many associates who were not blood relations often assumed the surname but between them could muster only a limited number of Christian names , confusion was avoided by the bestowal of what we might call a nickname , or what has been more justly described as a ‘ toname ’ . |
| 22 | Thus he slices through the old argument between ‘ formalism ’ and ‘ realism ’ by inserting what we may call a notion of intervention . |
| 23 | Well I think what we 'll have a look at is this er , mi migration essay . |
| 24 | Nor , I realize now , was she exactly what one would call a liar : . |
| 25 | So it is very difficult to achieve what one might call a set pattern in life . |
| 26 | There was no attempt by either Salisbury or Kilmuir to use what one might call a prefect 's influence on the opinion of those they interviewed . |
| 27 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |
| 28 | Then too it would like COSE to indicate exactly what it would like a company such as NCR to say . |
| 29 | Then too , it would like COSE to indicate exactly what it would like a company such as NCR to say . |