Example sentences of "we might call " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more what we might call trendy or eccentric or showy technique has tended to become in the last few years , the more I have felt I wanted to try and make films with as much simplicity and as much directness as possible . |
| 2 | I am arguing for something far more significant than that , and we might call it a case for ecological morality . |
| 3 | This former schoolmaster and magistrate of 18 years has sat with 50 mediums 130 times to further his quest for knowledge about what we might call ‘ the other side ’ . |
| 4 | But this second mutation of Christianity was the work more of a change in the nature of the Roman world itself , its social and its political structure as well as its intellectual assumptions and its culture , than of anything we might call ‘ the impact of the barbarians ’ on it . |
| 5 | The desire for improved services was centred among Congregationalists and Baptists while what we might call a larger search for dignity pertained to all the major denominations ; the Congregationalist , Dr George Barrett , told a 1900 meeting of the Free Church Council that ‘ Nonconformists have not yet enlisted the imagination as a handmaid to faith … |
| 6 | And if we do so we might call ourselves a nomadic and pastoral people of the transcendent ; and we shall be able to pasture our thoughts like the flocks of the nomads . |
| 7 | Each of these may be further subdivided and the typology shown in Fig. 10.1 draws upon the classic work of Burton and Kates ( 1964 ) in separating geophysical from biological hazards and Zeigler et al. ( 1983 ) in distinguishing public ( or what we might call societal ) hazards from private ( individual ) ones . |
| 8 | One would tend to put these down to human error — annoying and misleading — in most cases ; what we might call sloppy work . |
| 9 | But many interviews carried out in social research are of samples of what we might call ‘ ordinary ’ people — people who have characteristics , opinions and knowledge of a much more general nature . |
| 10 | One can see from this that random sampling is not at all the same as what we might call ‘ personal choice ’ . |
| 11 | As we have seen previously , Bukharin distinguished between arithmetical sums and what he called ‘ real aggregates ’ , or perhaps what we might call totalities . |
| 12 | Many of the champions were suffering from what we might call post-championship blues . |
| 13 | We might call them ‘ abnormal-normals ’ , things which appear normal from one perspective and abnormal from another . |
| 14 | We become insensitive to what we might call the ‘ once and might have been ’ of faith . |
| 15 | The pulse output from the timer IC1 pin 3 is fed to pin 14 of IC2 , a 4017B 5-stage decade ‘ twisted-ring ’ counter , then to the output pins of IC2 which are connected to a sequence of l.e.d.s ( D1 to D10 inclusive ) which we might call the ‘ Wicket Sequence ’ . |
| 16 | Originally 254cm ( 100in ) and since made at 3/4 size 198cm ( 78in ) , the Spinoff also contributed to the arrival of what we might call third generation stunters by its eventual introduction of stand-off struts . |
| 17 | At this point we might call in evidence William Blake 's teaching : |
| 18 | This we might call the instructional activity , with the teacher engaged as participant mediating the techniques concerned . |
| 19 | This we might call the experimental activity , with the teacher acting as observer manipulating the techniques concerned . |
| 20 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 21 | With respect to the lexical item bet , analysis reveals the descriptive fact that what we might call the canonical meaning of the word , ‘ to lay a wager ’ , is relatively rarely attested as compared with its very frequent informal occurrence as a modal marker indicating conviction as in expressions like ‘ I bet he 'll turn up tomorrow ’ , ‘ There 's no milk in the fridge , I bet ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So I suppose we might call you a grown-up child , if you see what I mean . ’ |
| 24 | The genesis of this particular definition , which we might call ‘ the military Pacific ’ , has more to do with American imperial history than with logic . |
| 25 | Yet neither does what we might call ‘ the economists ’ Pacific' . |
| 26 | The first is what we might call the ‘ technical Pacific ’ — that immense body of water lying to the seaward of all the island arcs and groups within the Ocean 's obvious continental margins . |
| 27 | Every mental phenomenon is characterized by what the Scholastics of the Middle Ages called the intentional ( or mental ) inexistence of an object , and what we might call , though not wholly unambiguously , reference to a content , direction toward an object ( which is not to be understood here as meaning a thing ) , or immanent objectivity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Instead of what we might call a vertical analysis of society — one which builds upon a single kind of term — Althusser attributes a horizontal analysis to Marx . |
| 30 | 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 . |