Example sentences of "and what we [vb mod] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 2 | In this sense there is nothing wrong with saying that a body has both the ( legal ) power and a ( legal ) duty to do X because , of course , if a body by law must do X , then it is legally entitled to do X. Secondly , we need to distinguish between legal powers and what we might call ‘ de facto ’ powers . |
| 3 | The two most frequently cited justifications for punishment are retribution , and what we will call reductivism ( following Walker , 1972 ) . |
| 4 | These are his empiricism and humanism , and what we can call his organicist insistence on close reading , on careful attention to every detail of a literary text , on the principle that the text , like a living organism , functions through the interaction of all its constituent parts . |
| 5 | Well each has a particular history erm each has a particular culture and pattern of doing things , structure of government as I 've mentioned but also of course we have common interests so in foreign policy we sometimes draw differences between what we would regard as the direct interests of each state and what we can call common interests of mankind . |