Example sentences of "[Wh det] you [modal v] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is what you might call phase one within the L P C. |
| 6 | Mr Ridley looked the reverse — what you might call cinegelet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ We have what you might call circles of evidence . |
| 9 | Apart from the weekly chess session he seems to have had no hobby , no what you might call recreation . ’ |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You had you had no organized sport such as you have today , but you had a football team because there was no need for what you would call sports ground , there was plenty of available open space , park . |
| 15 | Well , er the reason was erm technique and science and they 'd , they all the firms or who was in business had to make locks their own way , you know what I mean and use the best facilities they could get hold of , but science and progress came into being and they cou they made what you could call locks erm repetition . |
| 16 | In town it requires vast amounts of arm-flailing lock but is never what you could call light . |
| 17 | No not not mu much as what you can call vandalism , you know people spraying paint on the tinned up windows and that . |
| 18 | Well looking at it carefully , as I have done , it 's surprising that if you take the whole of the last forty years and look across the world there are really only about eight major what you can call disasters — I call the calamities , because they are not really disasters — that have occurred with medicines . |
| 19 | And er me job there was turning sock what you 'd call halfoes you know mens ' socks , from one side to the other on a piece of wood , you know you 'd pull the stocking onto this wood , put your finger on the back , turned it over and threw it down . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , no , not exactly , not what you 'd call proof . |
| 21 | ‘ Hardly what you 'd call value for money . ’ |
| 22 | Hello Hello … hardly what you 'd call grief with a large G. I smell a con . |
| 23 | Aye well , there was I was n't aware of any what you 'd call transition . |