Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] [pers pn] [modal v] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm it 's very much what I would term a fifty fifty case . |
| 2 | Indeed , modesty forbade him to contemplate too long what he could count a personal success . |
| 3 | So what we ought to have a deadline for collect collecting the information . |
| 4 | ‘ The Swiss railway timetable is a masterpiece of typographical design , if not what you could call a rattling good read . |
| 5 | ‘ Not what you 'd call a Major Thoroughfare , ’ said William 's nan , who had a sarcastic tongue on her at times . |
| 6 | ‘ Not what you 'd call a happy man . ’ |
| 7 | Then too it would like COSE to indicate exactly what it would like a company such as NCR to say . |
| 8 | Then too , it would like COSE to indicate exactly what it would like a company such as NCR to say . |
| 9 | Like what we would call a part , but they called them foys |
| 10 | Paltry compared with Asimov 's " haemoglobin number " , but still what I would call a large number . |
| 11 | Now if we can go back to the period when the eighty odd agreements was developed into one national agreement , it seemed to break up what we would term a big happy family . |
| 12 | But Cantona is also what I 'd call a Manchester United player . |
| 13 | Erm not really you know maybe in an out of the way way they might but you know the type of musicians we are or whatever , you know we can do say I can do all the Irish stuff the up tempo rousing songs I can play Irish and Scottish dances and that kind of stuff , then Tony can do right across the board with easy listening stuff and country stuff and even one of the tracks on our new C D is er is er well what I would term a pop song . |
| 14 | Jonathan was n't what you 'd call a warm man but he was n't a monk either . |
| 15 | Man Freitag PETER Freitag is n't what you 'd call a loser , of course , simply an habitual bronze medallist . |
| 16 | They grant also what is called a divorce a mensa et thoro , or rather what we should call a judicial separation , i.e. they release the parties from the duty of living together on grounds of cruelty or misconduct ; but a divorce in the modern sense , which allows the parties to marry again , is not recognized by the medieval church in the case of any marriage which is originally valid . |
| 17 | John Titford was never what we would call a leading light at Badcox Lane Chapel — he seems to have been reliable , but perhaps not dynamic . |