Example sentences of "as it were [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new principle of a two-thirds majority of those present , as it were a head count — without discriminating between them as to worth , age and weightiness — was undoubtedly responsible for Lothar 's election . |
| 2 | He is the son of the phallic mother who has overcome her and fused with her to become a living equivalent of the perfect primal mother , not through self-castration ( the depressive alternative ) , but through manic self-assertion : a sentiment nicely summed up in the ritual of Cybele and her son Attis : ‘ a feeding on milk , as though we were born again ; after which rejoicing and garlands and as it were a return to the gods . |
| 3 | At the same time the wife 's role was to serve , and this modest withdrawal was as it were a part of the service . |
| 4 | Again one could draw as it were a sort of a picture of erm one 's true self as a sort of largish lump , er much of which was the body and then within this smaller portion which is the soul , and within that a still smaller portion which is the mind , and then in all of us there is present to us the one , and we 're told that we ought to think about our body , that it is not our true self . |
| 5 | The mother , being as it were the core from which the family springs , causes all its members of the family to lose their bearings when distanced from . |
| 6 | more than the mere fact of existence ; it is as it were the ego quality of this existence . |
| 7 | George Buchanan also contends that it is the people who are the ultimate source of the laws : " the Law is more powerful than the King , and the People more powerful than the Law " for " the People is as it were the Parent of the Law , certainly the Author thereof . " |
| 8 | Surely there 's a , a certain balance between the , as it were the rote-learning of , of fixed things , and the understanding of what you 're doing ? |
| 9 | into the ego , so the ego was as it were the command centre of the , of the erm of the personality . |
| 10 | One sees the beginnings of a serious criticism of the very basis of The Lord of the Rings here : the author appears to have presented a set of rules and then observed them only partially , reserving as it were the right to exceptions and miracles . |
| 11 | In chapter nine of The Form Rolle uses this Jesus prayer to recapitulate the whole progress in love he has so far described — it becomes as it were the tool which shapes and conveys his understanding of redemption : The prose is orchestrated to a climax . |