Example sentences of "as it 's called " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and they were the kind of people that sometimes found theirself in difficulties , at the end of this quarter , as it 's called , because Well it was n't everybody that could pay it . |
| 2 | A First Spiritualist does n't drink coffee , or eat white bread or cheese ( apart from Gorgonzola — the Good Cheese as it 's called ) , and faced by a frankfurter is liable to scoot off into a corner , whimpering . |
| 3 | of the , the national average and it 's not because erm they 're paying high wages to get the , the most able people , it 's because there are mechanisms , institutional mechanisms that keep wages high , there 's no market in the jobs for , th these are generalizations but I think they are fairly , fairly true erm becau there is no market for er for the jobs , for civil service jobs that appointments are made and it is much more important who you know than , than what , what you know and the old boy network , as it 's called , in this country is fairly important in the English Civil Service but a similar sort of network tends to be far more important in developing countries , something that is euphemistically called patronage erm but we might call the old boy network or er er jobs for the boys whatever , but erm |
| 4 | erm one of the best programmes that I participated in was a programme where yes , money was spent to get matter for bucks as it 's called . |
| 5 | I think erm the tide is changing to a certain degree er on that point , but agricultural fundamentalism as it 's called erm , tt is quite an important er aspect is political erm is political motivation for a support or for protectionism okay . |
| 6 | The School Curriculum Development Committee , as it 's called , is headed by Professor Roger Blin-Stoyle , who is a physicist at Sussex . |
| 7 | so that there wo n't be a lot of dumping , as it 's called , and there wo n't be that number of last minute bargains so , you know , I think this is why people are coming in very quickly now to book while the main summer dates are still available . |