Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [modal v] call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | You 've got what I would call poise . |
| 4 | she lacks what I would call sales technique |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Like , most of the rapes we get at Easton , they 're not what I 'd call rape at all . |
| 10 | Jimbob and Fruitbat , although successful and possibly wealthy are , I 'm afraid not what I 'd call guitarists . |
| 11 | Not what I 'd call escapism anyway . |
| 12 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 13 | For whatever it was in Underwood that attracted Clare , and that he himself lacked , seemed to derive from what she would call Underwood 's ‘ experience ’ , his ‘ maturity ’ — which meant quite simply , his sin . |
| 14 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 15 | ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’ |
| 16 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 17 | are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country . |
| 18 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 19 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 20 | The Sea is a sort of mythological enemy , and I make what you might call sacrifices to it in my soul , fearing it a little , respecting it as you 're supposed to , but in many ways treating it as an equal . |
| 21 | ‘ We have what you might call circles of evidence . |
| 22 | Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 24 | Then I am happy , in that I have attained what you would call success ; and happy , in that I have attained what I consider good . |
| 25 | These people are basically independent to the company but they are appointed basically by the directors of the company in a capacity and basically er another safeguard or a check on the actual management what you would call management er governance of the company . |
| 26 | They were never to become what you would call bosom friends , however , because every time Dawn went to Mum for a cuddle , Mum would sneeze and send her flying beak over tail across the room . |
| 27 | You had you had no organized sport such as you have today , but you had a football team because there was no need for what you would call sports ground , there was plenty of available open space , park . |
| 28 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |
| 29 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 30 | No not not mu much as what you can call vandalism , you know people spraying paint on the tinned up windows and that . |