Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [modal v] call [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this book the enforcement of regulation is analysed in terms of two major systems or strategies of enforcement which I shall call compliance and sanctioning . |
| 2 | What I have to say would bear essentially on the four works named , and would be grouped round three notions which I shall call language as rescue , language as screen , and language as replay . |
| 3 | Three Levels on which rationality has practical significance may be distinguished , which I shall call groundedness , enlightenment and emancipation . |
| 4 | ‘ The Madras doctors called this rewarded gifts , which I would call sale by another name . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Sentence 5 also illustrates another aspect of modulation , which we shall call linkage of traits . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 9 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |
| 10 | ‘ It is true that there are Khans enough in the land ; but there are none I dare call friend . ’ |
| 11 | Ken would start off telling us about his week and then go into the same — what I would call bumhole jokes , always the same about the problems he had with his bum . |
| 12 | If central and local government are serious in their intent to create choice and consumerism , what I would call welfare consumerism in health and social care , then they must also take seriously the need to support voluntary organisations trying to meet those aspirations . |
| 13 | You 've got what I would call poise . |
| 14 | Erm the other thing we , we do is what I would call servicing community groups supported by the Council and I 'll put servicing in inverted comma 's , comma 's here . |
| 15 | The only place I ever heard what I would call politics was at the British Holistic Medical Association which is the rival to the British Medical Association . |
| 16 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 17 | Like , most of the rapes we get at Easton , they 're not what I 'd call rape at all . |
| 18 | Not what I 'd call escapism anyway . |
| 19 | The context of this calm acquiescence is a rise in what I will call semi-literacy , which relies on the visual image and hardly at all on the printed word except as a medium of advertising , and genuinely can not see what the problem is . |
| 20 | ‘ Lots of our best workers are what you might call otaku , ’ says an ASCII spokesman . |
| 21 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 25 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 26 | Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Then I am happy , in that I have attained what you would call success ; and happy , in that I have attained what I consider good . |
| 29 | These people are basically independent to the company but they are appointed basically by the directors of the company in a capacity and basically er another safeguard or a check on the actual management what you would call management er governance of the company . |
| 30 | They were never to become what you would call bosom friends , however , because every time Dawn went to Mum for a cuddle , Mum would sneeze and send her flying beak over tail across the room . |