Example sentences of "what [modal v] properly be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 2 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 3 | The particular acts found by the judge are we think rather on the borderline of what can properly be regarded as constituting possession , always apart from the consideration of adverse possession . |
| 4 | He thereby makes what happens , the smell , into what can properly be called a matter of real chance . |
| 5 | The resistance , to my mind , does not amount to what can properly be called an argument . |
| 6 | What can properly be called art is still , in majority , an inherent and inseparable element of some other purpose . |
| 7 | But the assembling of separate tales to form some larger whole is a distinctive feature of medieval literature with a history of its own , apart from the history of what can properly be called compilationes . |