Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [vb mod] [adv] call [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as we walked further the noise we had heard , which at first might have been taken for wind and rain , began to break up into shouts , cries , calls , over a ground-bass which I can only call a sigh : a deep sigh , repeated over and over , as if the wide world itself were sighing . |
| 2 | The behaviour of NAIRU , which we shall also call the equilibrium unemployment rate , is itself path dependent . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , in my view , Mrs. X has been shabbily treated in what I can only call a squalid affair . |
| 4 | I am sure that many must , like myself , have the feeling that the small democratic element which still exists within the governmental and constitutional framework of this country is being cast aside in favour of what I can only call a self-perpetuating oligarchy . |
| 5 | But he had given patient thought to the matter , just as he had to the rest of the alien anatomy ; and he had ventured on what I can only call an abstraction of the human face . |
| 6 | With this came what you could unfairly call the sting . |
| 7 | He had on what you 'd now call a yuppie look — baggy trousers and braces . |
| 8 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 9 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 10 | The vigorous characterisation of his early style , as witnessed in Flora Macdonald , gave way to what we might now call a more subtle psychological penetration . |
| 11 | The second US reaction was to reassure the West Germans that Washington was happy to leave the details about what we might now call the eastern provinces in Bonn 's hands . |
| 12 | I think it is important to concede that what we can loosely call the anti-antiracist position associated with sections of the new right and with populist politics has fed on crucial ambiguities in antiracist and multicultural initiatives . |