Example sentences of "of what [pers pn] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right very briefly , we 've been here a little while now , is erm we 're just gon na a little talk about the other aspects of what we call a defensive driving technique . |
| 2 | With a dominance and bodily expression also suggested in illus.1 , Rey is thus known to have exercised , with lasting success , many musical functions of what we call a ‘ conductor ’ |
| 3 | We 're on the edge of what we call a no go area , if we try to sail any closer to the wind the boat will come upright , the sail will flap and we 'll slow down and stop and so the best we can make either side of the no go area is known as a beat . |
| 4 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 5 | And we the used to pick on a on some sort of a nice looking little boy or little girl to say the collection piece that was appealing and I ca n't remember what it was now but er probably about four verses of what they called a collection piece , just before they started to collect you see and erm I think I said that three or four years erm running almost , so I must been pretty well good at it . |
| 6 | Palestinian leaders in the occupied territories called for an escalation of the intifada , in response to the formation of what they called a " terrorist " government . |
| 7 | Both of them have workshops at the Abbey and are members of what they call a spiritual community there . |
| 8 | of what I supposed a Christian tract . |
| 9 | The December meeting consisted of what I call a ‘ pub quiz ’ , since it is a popular event in many pubs . |
| 10 | Using an author 's view of what he considers a ‘ derived ’ publication may also be somewhat open to subjective interpretation , because some authors will want to suggest different degrees of derivation than others , whereas using a published bibliography ought , in theory , to be more objective , provided one can be sure of one 's identification . |
| 11 | But before we do so , it is worth mentioning the shrewd suggestion of Professor Raymond Brown that foremost in the complex imagery behind this word is the idea of what he calls a ‘ tandem relationship ’ . |
| 12 | In fact , Bolinger seems to weaken this latter claim somewhat in his discussion of what he calls a " nominalised " predicative position , as in it was a plump one . |
| 13 | Harris ( 1982 : 52 ) points out , for instance , that the occurrence of self with the infinitive reveals the existence of what he calls a " subject " , so that , in transformational terms , " To hate oneself is unwise can only come from For one to hate oneself is unwise " . |
| 14 | Prime Minister Narasimha Rao appealed for calm in the face of what he called a ‘ grave crisis ’ . |
| 15 | Hobbes conceived of what he called a state of nature . |