Example sentences of "what [modal v] [be] [vb pp] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The ideas were in effect harnessed to what may be called a theory of progressivism ; that is , a belief which embraced socialism as an ideal but which argued that , with the coming of democracy , socialism could be achieved through a process of gradual evolution from the old order to the new . |
| 2 | Lastly , I have tried to show tat the mechanical properties of many polymers may be described using the concepts and terminology of composites , so indicating the usefulness of what may be called a theory of materials . |
| 3 | Branagh , too , talks like a winner , and Henry V offers him better than any other play in the repertoire what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle . |
| 4 | But it 's ultimately about winning : Henry V offers Branagh , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and entrepreneurial self-definition . |
| 5 | ‘ Henry V offers ( Branagh ) , better than any other play in the repertoire , what might be called a yuppie dynamic , a mythology of success and self-definition rather than of struggle … |
| 6 | And against all sense and credibility I worked out that I had landed in the midst of what might be called a farmstead , Fraxilly-style . |
| 7 | Yet here was express permission to do so ; what might be called a farter 's charter . |
| 8 | By setting his move in the Thirties , and by turning that ambiguously seductive decade into what might be called a laide époque , Visconti discovered a necessary , hitherto unremarked fact about movie nostalgia : that it functions best when directly linked either to the history of the cinema ( as in The Damned , Helmut Berger 's Dietrich impersonation ) or history in the cinema ( newsreel footage , for example ) . |
| 9 | The Court went on to say that , in the case before it , there was no need to decide whether and to what extent Article 6(1) required a decision on the very substance of the dispute — what might be called a right to a judgment . |
| 10 | To a very large extent , Hound Tor represents the archetypal hamlet described by Harald Uhlig as representing the original west European type of settlement — what would be called a drubbel in Germany or claehan on the Celtic fringes — a hamlet inhabited by relatives , working the land together . |
| 11 | Choreographers today also need to understand what can be called a Grammar of Choreography if their work is to emerge as a valid stage presentation . |