Example sentences of "[pers pn] might call [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman .
2 ‘ She 's what you might call Limnititzker royalty , being the daughter of that great overblown patriarch , who is probably even now receiving homage from his own throng of mystical groupies on the other side of the sex-wall . ’
3 I am personally impressed and encouraged by what is going on in some of the hardest hit areas in my part of the world and by a series of what you might call chance accident , we 've actually got a sign on it on the platform here .
4 This is what you might call phase one within the L P C.
5 Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’
6 are things like erm in the area of what you might call citizenship , for example in the er European elections you could erm vote in another European country , you could actually stand for election in another European country .
7 I think that you might call Duff Hart-Davis a travel writer too , at least by osmosis , since his godfather was if I remember rightly Peter Fleming , who might well have had a stern word or two to say about Mrs Izzard 's book .
8 The Sea is a sort of mythological enemy , and I make what you might call sacrifices to it in my soul , fearing it a little , respecting it as you 're supposed to , but in many ways treating it as an equal .
9 ‘ We have what you might call circles of evidence .
10 Anyway , in the present context , it serves to characterize two different personal via : one achieves its clarities by way of charitas , the other goes about its business blind , achieves its clarities by way of what you might call confusio .
11 Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet .
12 If , on the other hand , we take a functional definition , perhaps like the one that Durkheim offers us , then we might call ideologies such as Marxism or Nationalism religions .
13 To have the best chance of preventing the more serious family and child care problems , what we might call child abuse , the best chance of success is to improve and develop universal , non-stigmatizing services which are integrated into the mainstream of social provision for all children .
14 They reproduce what we might call Harding 's ‘ Spanish village syndrome ’ or Carol Gilligan 's ‘ different voice ’ , constructing women to function best in the private domain and men in the public one .
15 Modern research has shown that the innate factors at work seem largely to affect what we might call ego-development .
16 That is what we might call suppression .
17 But an exception was William Swainson , an outstandingly talented zoological illustrator , who took what we might call ideas typical or representative of his time further than most contemporaries were willing to do .
18 There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency .
19 As we have seen previously , Bukharin distinguished between arithmetical sums and what he called ‘ real aggregates ’ , or perhaps what we might call totalities .
20 And er , one way to , to get people to stay on the land is to introduce some sort of , what we might call market disciplines , if that was n't such a dirty word , er , into the government , the government sector where there are clear inefficiencies .
21 Ironically enough , Rameau was among the most resourceful and imaginative composers of his time in his treatment of the orchestra , and the least in need of what we might call d'Indification .
22 In a city-centre bar , the four members of Eugenius are convening for what they might call work .
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