Example sentences of "we [vb mod] call [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If some studies of style are of doubtful value because of their emphasis on quantitative methods , the opposite tendency to rely entirely on what we may call stylistic intuition has , if anything , been even more prevalent . |
| 2 | Rather , an enlightened dualist will search for some significance , which we may call STYLISTIC VALUE , in a writer 's choice to express his sense in this rather than that way . |
| 3 | A particular sort of slavery , what we might call moral slavery , occurs if a person is forced to act according to someone else 's moral values . |
| 4 | One would tend to put these down to human error — annoying and misleading — in most cases ; what we might call sloppy work . |
| 5 | Whereas in many cases this is only one dimension , albeit an important one , in the case of what we might call theoretical ideology it constitutes the main organizing principle . |
| 6 | I think it 's ludicrous , it 's old fashion is n't it ? , he does n't even real , what we used to call real writing |
| 7 | This time , following Fillmore ( 1971b ) , we shall call coding time or CT , which may be distinct from receiving time or RT , as example ( 1 ) made clear . |
| 8 | Well again er I would say conditions were were terrible as far as I was concerned , er a as far as tea breaks and what have you were concerned , you did n't have any what we would call official tea breaks , you simply took your chances and made a cup of tea and hid behind a bulkhead or whatever to drink this , er if you got caught by the foreman or the manager or somebody , then you were more or less bagged on the spot . |
| 9 | In those , there are a number of staff who are , what we would call front line health based staff , who are there in supporting social workers and providing direct services to your client group . |
| 10 | They 'd just be in their underwear and er it 's er there 's certain evidence that they engaged in what we would call heavy petting nowadays . |
| 11 | But the games that matter most obviously nowadays are the league games and we 've lost three badly bad league games to what we would call inferior opposition . |
| 12 | In all the cases examined with full verbs , the bare infinitive has evoked what could be termed a coincident actualization , and its event is not represented as beginning to exist in time before that of the main verb , as depicted by this diagram of I watched him cross the street : This does not exhaust the expressive capacity of the bare infinitive , however , as we are going to see that it can also express what we will call coincident potentiality . |
| 13 | However , we can identify different pitch possibilities in the head , though these are limited to two which we will call high head and low head . |
| 14 | Each new teacher is put through a period of what we can call social apprenticeship by the pupils in order to ascertain what sort of person and disciplinarian ( s ) he is going to be . |