Example sentences of "you might call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’ |
| 3 | I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here . |
| 4 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 5 | Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’ |
| 6 | are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country . |
| 7 | I think that you might call Duff Hart-Davis a travel writer too , at least by osmosis , since his godfather was if I remember rightly Peter Fleming , who might well have had a stern word or two to say about Mrs Izzard 's book . |
| 8 | The Sea is a sort of mythological enemy , and I make what you might call sacrifices to it in my soul , fearing it a little , respecting it as you 're supposed to , but in many ways treating it as an equal . |
| 9 | ‘ We have what you might call circles of evidence . |
| 10 | Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio . |
| 11 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |