Example sentences of "[coord] whatever [pers pn] [verb] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capped level , or whatever we like to call it , is the criteria that has been established by the Secretary of State , and he has said it is five per cent beyond the standard spending level and he says if Councils spend beyond that then he is liable to introduce his capping legislation and |
| 2 | It was evidence of Karajan 's genius or magic or whatever we care to call it that he took enormous pains with these simple chords in order to get just the right degree of string tone with an appropriately dark colour . |
| 3 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 4 | and then finally we could finish off with Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men or whatever they want to call themselves from and they could say well we 're the guys in between we 've got clients out there but we have to deal with printers and estimators and this is what life is like for us . |
| 5 | It was bad enough he himself trying to turn into an amateur psychiatrist or psychotherapist or whatever they liked to call themselves , but to have some strange layman taking an interest in his wife , or his wife 's case , was altogether too much . |
| 6 | ‘ Wilson , or Yusuf Khan , or whatever you like to call him , is , as you are all aware , a man of many talents . |
| 7 | Having defined the processes in detail under the checklist , it now becomes much easier to allocate the necessary resources , time units , DOPACS units or whatever you like to call them , to successfully complete the project . |
| 8 | She has an extra charisma , or whatever you like to call it . |
| 9 | Wittgenstein explicitly rejects what Locke and Brentano unquestioningly accept , namely that there is a perfectly proper epistemological question , ‘ How is it that a person can say what he himself believes , expects , hopes , and so on ? ’ to which the answer is that he must have observed in himself a mental operation , process , state , or whatever you like to call it , of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on . |
| 10 | er and in any , in any event there are a number of things I tend to miss altogether if I want to er keep to timetable which I and I , I 'm sure you 're , all the , the audience or group or whatever you like to call it that will welcome an extension of the talk . |
| 11 | There is still the need for a challenge in life and a sense of responsibility or whatever you like to call it . |
| 12 | I mean I do n't understand why the church or the so called church or whatever you like to call it . |
| 13 | Would you recycle goods or whatever you like to call it ? |
| 14 | Is n't it also true that the European union or community or whatever you like to call it , is also intending to introduce a compulsory identity card in the form of a smart card carrying details of the citizen 's health , but which would have ample room to put all sorts of other things on . |
| 15 | Now no level headed business man in his right senses would recommend that they dispose of any part of it for a temporary , permanent gipsy site or whatever you like to call it . |
| 16 | ‘ Because you have come so far , Hugh , tomorrow I will take you to see the Painted Men , the little people , the fairies , goblins , Picts , or whatever you wish to call them . ’ |
| 17 | I think , think it 's best maybe we 're into these sort of formal words of consultation and discussion , maybe if we invite comment on , on the service changes really , or the reductions or cuts or whatever you want to describe them as , er , in relation to how they affect user groups . |
| 18 | Um and also it may be possible to y'know you may want to start out by showing people some stuff and trying to get them to talk about it so you you understand the sort of language concepts , repertoires , or whatever you want to call them , that people are actually using to try try and work out some more formal questions from that and move on to a questionnaire type thing y'know I mean that 's a possibility . |
| 19 | No , not at all ; it 's a witty seriousness , black humour , or whatever you want to call it . |
| 20 | So whilst you might think it 's a nice idea to make a change to some procedure or work instruction or whatever you want to call it , there may be the odd occasion on which it 's not actually possible to bring in a change because we 're faced with still er meeting the requirements in the base er I S O Nine Thousand document . |
| 21 | Chance , fate or whatever you want to call it was offering me the opportunity to finally get you out of my system . |
| 22 | So if you take er another example erm most American states , the majority , have er a sales tax of some sort , equivalent to VAT as we would call it , er most of them have a property tax , equivalent to rates or council tax or whatever you want to call it now , er and the majority have an income tax as well , a state income tax . |
| 23 | And er and then there used to be some houses what er we did n't live in one of them but there used to be a lot of houses what used to be railings round , and there used to be steps and you 'd go down the steps , into the And they used to c they used to live downstairs and then well of course when you 're in the house in the side the room they used to have another flight of steps to come upstairs to a l a front room or a lounge or whatever you mind to call it . |
| 24 | It did n't sound like it fitted in with this period , this setting , this age or whatever you wanted to call it . |
| 25 | And whatever I try to tell them , they seem convinced I am a part of it . |
| 26 | I 'll see your Mum and whatever she wants to know I 'll be only too pleased to tell her . ’ |