Example sentences of "which [pron] [modal v] call [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this book the enforcement of regulation is analysed in terms of two major systems or strategies of enforcement which I shall call compliance and sanctioning . |
| 2 | What I have to say would bear essentially on the four works named , and would be grouped round three notions which I shall call language as rescue , language as screen , and language as replay . |
| 3 | Three Levels on which rationality has practical significance may be distinguished , which I shall call groundedness , enlightenment and emancipation . |
| 4 | ‘ The Madras doctors called this rewarded gifts , which I would call sale by another name . |
| 5 | If the left hand end of the line is fixed by the co-ordinates of Bishops Cannings church , then the angle it makes with its horizontal base assumes a value , which we shall call angle ‘ a ’ . |
| 6 | Sentence 5 also illustrates another aspect of modulation , which we shall call linkage of traits . |
| 7 | 1.7 Example ( 26 ) shows us the second and less common relation contributing to the unfolding of syntactic structures , which we shall call equation , adopting the obvious symbol to represent it : ( 26 ) Fitzpatrick , our neighbour , used to plant potatoes the subject exemplifies the basic pattern [ E = E ] , ( as does the underlined portion of ( 22 ) ) ; in more exact terms , what we have in this subject phrase is : As we have just remarked , equational phrases are rarer than phrases involving qualification ; and , among them , there is a very large disproportion in favour of equation between E and E , rather than between P and P. Nevertheless , the latter can be found ; two examples would be : ( 28 ) what I need is a cup of strong , dark coffee for a fast , convenient trip to the city , take the Skytram This is clearly not to say that strong and dark , or fast and convenient , are equivalent at the type level ; only that on some particular occasion of use , as here , they may be regarded by speaker , or copywriter , as equivalent . |
| 8 | There is a process version of this criterion which we might call valency . |
| 9 | We are beginning to find that to explain what we understand by the quality of life we have to introduce a further notion which we could call texture . |