Example sentences of "[Wh det] might be [vb pp] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has involved close linkages between private and public capital and between mining and other sectors of the economy , giving rise to a core economic bloc which might be termed a mineral-energy complex . |
| 2 | Past problems — in particular in the interwar depression — were analysed within a framework which might be termed a Keynesian hindsight model [ Pollard , 1969 ; 1983 ] . |
| 3 | HEAVY with prizes from Venice , She 's Been Away ( BBC1 ) was , superficially , one of those pieces in which a major star offers what might be called a Complex Simpleton performance . |
| 4 | In what follows , we adopt what might be called a modified pluralist approach ( Hall et al . , |
| 5 | They applied what might be called a Morellian analysis , recording precisely the minute details of the ancient works , dividing statues into as many as 300 measurable parts , and entering the results into a database . |
| 6 | There is , of course , nothing new in the development of what might be called a farm-centred community , distinct and largely separated from the village , particularly in the pastoral and upland areas of England , where this kind of settlement pattern has traditionally been more common . |
| 7 | Hurtling along the open track and through what might be called a blinding blizzard , the C.P.R. ‘ Special ’ carried Gladstone Murray and his party to Regina in just over an hour . |
| 8 | Both families had been transformed from what might be called a lumpen peasantry into what Marx did call the lumpen proletariat . |
| 9 | What might be called a conservative legal-constitutionalism is a consistent theme within Tory-Anglican thought throughout our period , even though not all Tory Anglicans would have argued such a position at all times with the same degree of commitment . |
| 10 | It is what might be called a self-perpetuat-ing oligarchy with mild , but only mild overtones of plutocracy . ’ |
| 11 | Identification of what might be called a transient problem , compared with , with a deep-seated long-term problem , is perhaps not always apparent . |
| 12 | Elaborations are characteristic of what might be called a pedagogical style , which itself can be explained in terms of the principle of relevance . |
| 13 | It should also be said , perhaps , that Lord Darlington was never what might be called a natural public speaker , and soon all those small sounds of restlessness that betray that an audience 's attention has been lost grew steadily around the room . |
| 14 | The recording has what might be called an honest directness — it is clear and bright , if a little too closely miked , but in both performance and recording I miss truly elegant characterisations of these particular scores . |
| 15 | Although we can not expect them to become typographers or graphic designers , we do believe that even in the short time available during our course we can give them what might be called an aesthetic awareness that will enable them to make reasonable decisions in their future work . |
| 16 | For more than 50 years I have nurtured what might be called an insatiable interest in China and the arts , crafts , and accomplishments of the Chinese people , the oldest extant civilization on earth . |
| 17 | The cultural and social norms that affect considerations of health and illness have established what might be called an unspoken ‘ Acceptability Index ’ of various forms of illness . |
| 18 | This time I want to concentrate on what might be called the postmodern mode of signification , or a postmodern ‘ semiotics ’ . |
| 19 | The second reason for thinking there will be more back-pedalling reflects shifts in what might be called the strategic and historical experience of some of the EC 's members . |
| 20 | When we visited the big open-air retail market in the upper town at Montpellier , there was an ordinary enough little charcuterie-épicerie stall offering the ingredients of what might be called the small change of French cookery , but to our English eyes it looked particularly inviting and interesting . |
| 21 | Another process which would be applicable to the right type of terrain is what might be called the continuous reclamation process . |
| 22 | Today , the existence of these stages of psycho-sexual development is seldom disputed , even though , as we have already seen , the full significance of infantile sexuality is characteristically denied and avoided by what might be called the modern , permissive defence against psychoanalytic insight . |
| 23 | She has become what might be called The professional Daleswoman . |
| 24 | What might be called the traditional view of the effect of the capital structure on the price of shares is that there is an optimal debt-equity mix which will maximize the value of the company 's securities . |
| 25 | We are more concerned here with what might be called the roast beef of scoring than with the confectionery . |
| 26 | By the time Chiang fell upon his Chinese communist rivals and destroyed the Canton commune in the spring of 1927 , and thus terminated the League 's existence also , it has been estimated that something like 200 ‘ graduates ’ of Ho 's Canton course had returned to Vietnam and although many of them were arrested , it was a significant infusion to be added to what might be called the natural sources of discontent . |
| 27 | Behind the developed road and street frontages forming the settlement proper , what might be called the rural-urban fringe was reached . |
| 28 | The skates and rays , relatives of sharks , have become flat in what might be called the obvious way . |
| 29 | They had inhibitions about concentrating on what might be called the Dickensian essentials ; a great deal of specified food and drink , presents wanted and unwanted , the gathering of friends and relations . |
| 30 | These accounts derive from diverse current perspectives which should not be conflated — psychoanalysis , philosophy , and what might be called the metaphysical vision of the cultural critic and creative writer . |