Example sentences of "what [vb mod] [adv] be [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For as long as a Stephen , in his moments of strength , has been able to despise the arbiters of fortune and culture — the English and the Anglo Irish — as degenerate and unworthy inheritors of the language of Shakespeare , he has done so from somewhere , from a somewhere intimately known , and yet never entirely placed , from what might loosely be called Irishness . |
| 2 | A particularly tight swarm hummed around Mme Andre Malraux , widow of France 's first Minister of Culture , admiring a group of what could politely be called doodles by her late husband at prices between £100 and £800 . |
| 3 | They also seemed to have what could only be snorkeling devices on the tops of their heads . |
| 4 | These processes range from ( a ) active illustration ( still relatively simple ) to ( b ) kinds of active reinvention and exploratory discovery and , crucially , ( c ) tension , contradiction or what would elsewhere be called dissent . |
| 5 | In so doing , they inevitably rejected the idea of innate sexual difference , laying much greater emphasis on what would today be called patterns of socialisation . |
| 6 | You get used to seeing so many things , you become immune to what would normally be considered perversions . |
| 7 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 8 | Using what would now be called GIS skills , Openshaw ( 1980 ) examined over 13 000 1 km grid squares in the UK which intersect the coastline and related these to data from the 1971 Census ( which were made available for such grid squares ) . |
| 9 | What can properly be called art is still , in majority , an inherent and inseparable element of some other purpose . |
| 10 | But the assembling of separate tales to form some larger whole is a distinctive feature of medieval literature with a history of its own , apart from the history of what can properly be called compilationes . |
| 11 | It is clear that these larger groups or phyla have arisen because of what can only be called co-evolution : the changes to take place in their body types have been more or less continuously in tune with evolutionary changes in their habitat or environment . |