Example sentences of "what [modal v] be termed " in BNC.
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| 1 | The end of the dock when at the upper part of its inclined railway makes a practically water-tight joint with the standing work at the extremity of what may be termed the head bay or pond of which the dock then forms a continuation , there being also a gate or gates at the end of the bay to retain the water when the dock is absent . |
| 2 | The foot of the inclined way descends below the level of what may be termed the tail bay which is open at the end so that the dock and carriage run down into the water in order to bring the dock into alignment with the tail bay to allow of the vessel being hauled in or out of the dock . |
| 3 | It was the purpose of the Progress Office to ensure what may be termed the feeding of the works with the necessary parts . |
| 4 | Because we are more dependent and more vulnerable in later years , there has rightly been concern about what may be termed ‘ old age abuse ’ and the subject merits some detailed discussion here . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Oakeshott , however , also contends that these offices are subject to the morality inherent in the rule of law ; what may be termed the jus of lex . |
| 7 | Thus , realism may most readily be viewed as a reaction to the attempt to construct a formal science of law founded on what may be termed the case method ; that is , the assumption that , by close examination of past judicial decisions , the basic principles of law could be deduced . |
| 8 | There is first of all what may be termed the technical conception of a hierarchical level . |
| 9 | One of the results of the quantitative increase in material culture , providing new domains of representation all working in particular ways , is to complicate further the problem of what may be termed material ideology . |
| 10 | This complexity is ignored by many of the approaches to ideology which have in common a tendency towards what may be termed ‘ objectivism ’ , a term which emphasizes a general antipathy towards a subject- or agency-centered perspective . |
| 11 | Concerning what may be termed the ‘ multi-professional approach ’ , it was seen as a source of many difficulties for professionals and parents , some practical , some personal and some organisational . |
| 12 | ‘ In particular , over and above their local roles , councils are located and locate themselves in what may be termed the ‘ national local government system ’ ' ( Dunleavy , 1980a , p. 105 ) . |
| 13 | A variety of authors have pointed to the importance of what may be termed ‘ intra-governmental influences upon expenditure growth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Questions about what may be termed the aesthetics of a text continue to be posed , even though the aesthetic is no longer tied to a text 's autonomous integrity . |
| 16 | The relations between what may be termed the aesthetics of cultural generation . |
| 17 | Rather there is an essential assumption of that basic face-to-face conversational context in which all humans acquire language , or as Lyons ( 1977a : 637-8 ) has put it rather more precisely : The grammaticalization and lexicalization of deixis is best understood in relation to what may be termed the canonical situation of utterance : this involves one-one , or one-many , signalling in the phonic medium along the vocal-auditory channel , with all the participants present in the same actual situation able to see one another and to perceive the associated non-vocal paralinguistic features of their utterances , and each assuming the role of sender and receiver in turn There is much in the structure of languages that can only be explained on the assumption that they have developed for communication in face-to-face interaction . |
| 18 | First , there are what may be termed contractual techniques which are arrived at by agreement between the parties . |
| 19 | That is to say he is not in the least drawn to the idea that Christ came in the flesh , and he finds the simplicity and literalism of what might be termed ‘ mere Christianity ’ frankly unacceptable . |
| 20 | There is a clear distinction between what might be termed ‘ lower order ’ needs and ‘ higher order ’ needs and the strength of the model is based upon one level becoming dominant as the subordinate need is satisfied . |
| 21 | Although their child will not be characterised by a recognisable physical appearance , the child will still often behave in what might be termed an abnormal fashion . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Robbe-Grillet 's insistence upon the essentially ludic dimension of all of his fiction ( and cinema ) was also a means of escaping what might be termed the prison-house of reflexivity ; it was not uncommon to find him distancing himself from Ricardou , even during the conference devoted to his work in 1975 , at which he claimed that even his supposedly ‘ theoretical ’ utterances over the years should be construed as attempts to maintain plurality and mobility . |
| 24 | The point is that , whereas most British breeds are now basically black or red , with or without white , or roan mixtures of black or red hairs with white hairs , the Jersey has always accepted what might be termed a composite coat , with many more colours , and even then the colour can change according to the season . |
| 25 | Bearing this in mind , I sought to develop an approach which would try to distinguish what might be termed the ‘ players ’ in an industry , from those who are not players , whom I have termed the ‘ commentators ’ : |
| 26 | In short , the MDC has presided over some successes , but not over what might be termed the regeneration of Liverpool 's docks . |
| 27 | The second type of witchcraft is what might be termed the Guardian newspaper class . |
| 28 | Gandhi seems to have felt some flicker of remorse about his treatment of the Sarabhai family ; at any rate , without confessing error , he preoccupied himself with working out rules for what might be termed the just fast . |
| 29 | Their response is depressing — and also debilitating — because it creates an instant polarity between what might be termed the old and new agendas of the left , when what is actually required is a synthesis . |
| 30 | The first is what might be termed the ‘ fixed wing ’ approach . |