Example sentences of "which we [vb mod] call " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These contrasting forms of liberty of the individual will and the corporate body , which we may call Anselmian and Gregorian , were of course not mutually exclusive . |
| 3 | Important , too , although not always easy to evaluate , is the evidence which we may call literary , not merely the chronicles , but rather the tracts , pamphlets , newsletters and even poetry through which people expressed their ideas and views , as well as their emotions , on contemporary issues and problems , which might be the need for government to be better managed , hope of peace , or the criteria according to which society 's military leaders should be chosen . |
| 4 | When a child is a listener to adult conversation ( which we may call ‘ dialogue at first hand ’ ) the identity of the speakers is normally obvious . |
| 5 | What do we believe of the connections between such a set , which we may call a causal circumstance , and the effect ? |
| 6 | Style is a relational term : we talk about " the style of x " , referring through " style " to characteristics of language use , and correlating these with some extralinguistic x , which we may call the stylistic DOMAIN . |
| 7 | Rather , an enlightened dualist will search for some significance , which we may call STYLISTIC VALUE , in a writer 's choice to express his sense in this rather than that way . |
| 8 | But having weighed up the two options , at the end of the article , he concluded : ' … in every language it turns out that almost all the results lie within a relatively short stretch which we may call the sentence … |
| 9 | However , in England the principle has been inflated into a much more extreme dogma which we may call the ‘ extravagant version ’ of the doctrine . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | ( 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 . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | This value is found by extrapolating the smoothed values for times 2 and 3 , which we shall call z 2 and z 3 ; this is shown graphically in figure 9.13 . |
| 15 | ( which , strictly speaking , constitutes the vocabulary system ) , there is another system , both psychological and social in nature , which we shall call the system of attitudes . |
| 16 | Before we can proceed further we have to grasp a fundamental distinction which the Zande draw between two kinds of occult power , the first of which we shall call ‘ sorcery ’ and the second ‘ witchcraft ’ . |
| 17 | Even I itself can be factorised in a variety of ways ; as one example , if J is the square matrix which has units in its secondary diagonal and zeros elsewhere , which we shall call the reversing matrix , then |
| 18 | Sentence 5 also illustrates another aspect of modulation , which we shall call linkage of traits . |
| 19 | As an example of this sort of semantic continuum , which we shall call a sense-spectrum , consider the following use of mouth : |
| 20 | The problem solver should find a corresponding 7-tuple of joint angles , ( j , j , j , j , j , j , j ) which we shall call J. |
| 21 | If the left hand end of the line is fixed by the co-ordinates of Bishops Cannings church , then the angle it makes with its horizontal base assumes a value , which we shall call angle ‘ a ’ . |
| 22 | The King took the opportunity by the need to renew Bank of Scotland 's monopoly north of the Border and said in essence ( and in German ) ‘ No , we shall set up a new large bank , which will be on our side and which we shall call ‘ Royal . ’ |
| 23 | A point in space–time ( which we shall call an event ) has coordinates x , y , z with respect to a rectangular Cartesian set of space axes at time t . |
| 24 | The coordinate r is different from the radial distance measured from the centre of the mass M , which we shall call a . |
| 25 | For example , at the end of 1986 a small fund owned and administered by a group of workers in a nationalized industry which we shall call ‘ The General Sickness and Funeral Fund ’ had the following investments : Notes : The figures for the gross yield on equities takes into account the time over which the investment has been held ( unstated ) and can not be used as a holding period return for CAPM as the periods are unequal . |
| 26 | Entities , being elements of a specifically linguistic domain which we shall call the intensional level , may or may not have a referent in some real or imaginary external world ; we can certainly talk about an entity while uncertain of the existence of any related " thing " in the world about which we are speaking , or even while explicitly rejecting such an existence . |
| 27 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 28 | We can perhaps clarify this particular case further by adopting a very simple notation , where r superscribed to a morpheme M indicates the entity ( whether identified explicitly or not ) demanded by the use of the morpheme M , which we shall call its referential locus . |
| 29 | 3.2 Having already examined the prenominal attributive position in Chapter 2 , we shall now look at the next one , which we shall call simply predicative position , when there is no risk of misunderstanding . |
| 30 | It was built in 1903 with a façade in what the Italians could call Liberty style , but which we would call Art Nouveau . |