Example sentences of "[vb mod] be termed [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No such programme should be termed exclusive , especially sports programmes . |
| 2 | Perhaps one should ‘ allow that a certain knowledge derived from our experience of the appearances of things should be termed genuine knowledge ’ . |
| 3 | Back in Via Manzoni , continue north to pass the church of San Francesco di Paola , a fine example of what might be termed flowery Baroque . |
| 4 | Over many years these features have produced what might be termed tremendous institutional depth . |
| 5 | All the semantic tallies we have considered so far have been what might be termed pure tallies , in that they have no perceptible semantic connection with any other elements in the language . |
| 6 | In addition , there are many more millions of migrants and what might be termed environmental refugees — people leaving because of natural disasters or because the land , as the result of soil erosion , deforestation and the spread of deserts , can no longer support the population . |
| 7 | These bear little relationship to any shape that might be termed traditional , they are generally very large and they have been in demand at seaside beach displays , city-organised festivals and internationally at sponsored functions . |
| 8 | I have been arguing here for what might be termed appropriate research , analogous to the notion of appropriate technology . |
| 9 | In the latter cases , capital gains are being made from what might be termed special kinds of consumption property , only available to the rich . |
| 10 | Only 11 fathers , outside these sectors , were in heavy or what might be termed Semi-skilled or unskilled jobs : docker , coalminer , dust-man , general labourer , worker in rubber factory . |
| 11 | Strategies that maximize the individual fitness component may be termed selfish . |
| 12 | They tend to be , characterized by the phrase ‘ its more than my job 's worth … ’ and may be termed petty officials . |
| 13 | First , in what may be termed classic jurisdictional fact cases such as ‘ if a furnished tenancy , or resources , etc. , exist , you may … ’ the courts well presume that the term , if it is classified as a jurisdictional fact , has a meaning which will be determined by the judiciary and not by the public body . |
| 14 | Collocations like foot the bill and curry favour , whose constituents do not like to be separated , may be termed bound collocations . |
| 15 | Provided , however , that it is properly grounded , failure to engage with it may be termed irresponsible . |
| 16 | The sort of oddness exhibited by 28 may be termed expressive paradox , since the expressive meaning carried by but is inappropriately deployed . |
| 17 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |
| 18 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 19 | These persons were not necessarily well off , but they were literate in Sinhala if not in English and had a relatively high standard of living ; they may be termed local élites . |
| 20 | First , there are what may be termed contractual techniques which are arrived at by agreement between the parties . |
| 21 | sixties , Twiggy was a very in , in figure in Vogue er nowadays that would be termed anorexic I would imagined |
| 22 | Proportional series of this sort will be termed closed . |
| 23 | This will be termed pure selling . |
| 24 | Those for which , in addition , unc will be termed algebraic integers unc is one such ( ! ) since it is a root of |
| 25 | We shall call such elements semantic tallies and their partner elements which indicate a general category will be termed semantic categorisers . |
| 26 | This will be termed contextual selection ( of senses ) ; in the nature of things , this sort of variation proceeds in discrete jumps rather than continuously . |
| 27 | Such phenomena can be termed connected speech processes ( CSPs ) , and reflect ease and economy of articulation . |
| 28 | How far they were supreme in any new and unprecedented sense , whether their advance can be termed revolutionary , how much they owed to the innovatory genius of Thomas Cromwell are questions still open to dispute . |