Example sentences of "what [vb mod] [adv] be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had initiated an experimental effort to pioneer a form of what may best be called developmental social care . |
| 2 | The pyramidical shape in that year reflected what must now be considered high mortality rates at all ages , and particularly among the very young . |
| 3 | All the right bands came — Love Sculpture , the Nice , Family — and , he remembers , ‘ various acid-crazed hippies performed what might obliquely be termed experimental music ’ . |
| 4 | One of the very first of them was Rossini 's Elisabetta Regina d'Inghilterra , which revolves around a real enough subject : the execution of what might now be called political prisoners . |
| 5 | At the same time , all forms of what would usually be considered popular music can in principle be disseminated by face-to-face methods ( for instance , in concerts ) rather than the mass media , and can be made available free , or even structured as collective participation , rather than sold as a commodity ; it is hard to believe that a few friends , jamming on ‘ Born in the USA ’ at a party , are not producing ‘ popular music ’ . |
| 6 | Throughout the first decade of television , the dominant influence was what would now be called stand-up comedy . |
| 7 | It would be wrong to claim that Darwinism had no impact on the study of what would now be called ecological relationships , but the impact was indirect . |
| 8 | It was certainly possible to study what would now be called ecological relationships before the founding of scientific ecology . |
| 9 | His monistic philosophy promoted a sense of the unity of Nature among later generations of environmentalists , but it was several decades before serious work on what would now be called ecological topics began . |
| 10 | On a renewed application for leave to move for what would now be called judicial review , this court granted the application . |
| 11 | One member followed me around all day abusing me verbally with what can only be called dirty talk . |
| 12 | If we examine the RNAs in a long succession of test-tubes , we see what can only be called evolutionary change . |