Example sentences of "we may call [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the same reasoning we must conclude that K could plausibly have arisen , directly by a single change , from something slightly different again , which we may call K " . |
| 2 | Could the human eye have arisen directly from something slightly different from itself , something that we may call X ? |
| 3 | The program considers every possible move which the laws of the game allow it to make , and arrives at various positions which we may call HisPos . |
| 4 | In such a universe , which is in thermal equilibrium as a whole and therefore dead , relatively small regions of the size of our galaxy will be found here and there ; regions ( which we may call worlds ) which deviate significantly from thermal equilibrium for short stretches of those ‘ aeons ' ’ of time . |
| 5 | ( 59 ) Two and two is four ( 60 ) Iguanas eat ants Let us , following Lyons ( 1977a : 682 ) , distinguish the semantic or theoretical category of tense , which we may call metalinguistic tense or M-tense for short , from the verbal inflections that a traditional grammar of a particular language may call that language 's tenses , which we may call L-tenses . |