Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this book the enforcement of regulation is analysed in terms of two major systems or strategies of enforcement which I shall call compliance and sanctioning . |
| 2 | What I have to say would bear essentially on the four works named , and would be grouped round three notions which I shall call language as rescue , language as screen , and language as replay . |
| 3 | Three Levels on which rationality has practical significance may be distinguished , which I shall call groundedness , enlightenment and emancipation . |
| 4 | ‘ The Madras doctors called this rewarded gifts , which I would call sale by another name . |
| 5 | By the same reasoning we must conclude that K could plausibly have arisen , directly by a single change , from something slightly different again , which we may call K " . |
| 6 | In such a universe , which is in thermal equilibrium as a whole and therefore dead , relatively small regions of the size of our galaxy will be found here and there ; regions ( which we may call worlds ) which deviate significantly from thermal equilibrium for short stretches of those ‘ aeons ' ’ of time . |
| 7 | The program considers every possible move which the laws of the game allow it to make , and arrives at various positions which we may call HisPos . |
| 8 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |
| 9 | If the left hand end of the line is fixed by the co-ordinates of Bishops Cannings church , then the angle it makes with its horizontal base assumes a value , which we shall call angle ‘ a ’ . |
| 10 | Sentence 5 also illustrates another aspect of modulation , which we shall call linkage of traits . |
| 11 | The problem solver should find a corresponding 7-tuple of joint angles , ( j , j , j , j , j , j , j ) which we shall call J. |
| 12 | This value is found by extrapolating the smoothed values for times 2 and 3 , which we shall call z 2 and z 3 ; this is shown graphically in figure 9.13 . |
| 13 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 14 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 15 | We might say roughly that there are two sorts of givens which we could call duties and wishes . |
| 16 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 17 | One of these , which we will call T A , contains node 1 . |
| 18 | As an example , consider a case where two words are combined , the first of which ends with a single final consonant ( which we will call C f ) and the second of which starts with a single initial consonant ( which we will call C i ) ; we can construct a diagram like this : |
| 19 | As an example , consider a case where two words are combined , the first of which ends with a single final consonant ( which we will call C f ) and the second of which starts with a single initial consonant ( which we will call C i ) ; we can construct a diagram like this : |
| 20 | If that does n't attract you or you 're not interested in the solitary life of home exercise , you could instead try Step Reebok , the latest buzzword in exercise-to-music , which we used to call aerobics , did n't we ? |
| 21 | Ken would start off telling us about his week and then go into the same — what I would call bumhole jokes , always the same about the problems he had with his bum . |
| 22 | If central and local government are serious in their intent to create choice and consumerism , what I would call welfare consumerism in health and social care , then they must also take seriously the need to support voluntary organisations trying to meet those aspirations . |
| 23 | You 've got what I would call poise . |
| 24 | she lacks what I would call sales technique |
| 25 | Erm the other thing we , we do is what I would call servicing community groups supported by the Council and I 'll put servicing in inverted comma 's , comma 's here . |
| 26 | The only place I ever heard what I would call politics was at the British Holistic Medical Association which is the rival to the British Medical Association . |
| 27 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 28 | Now I want to suggest that what makes the difference — what transmutes overload and pressure into full-blown stress — are what I shall call injunctions . |
| 29 | Like , most of the rapes we get at Easton , they 're not what I 'd call rape at all . |
| 30 | Jimbob and Fruitbat , although successful and possibly wealthy are , I 'm afraid not what I 'd call guitarists . |